Inventing authority
Subtitle: the use of the Church Fathers in Reformation debates over the Eucharist
By: Esther Chung-Kim
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Waco, Tex
Language: eng
Number of pages: 197
ISBN-13: 9781602582132
Subjects: Lord's Supper; History of doctrines; History; Religious disputations; Fathers of the church
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-188) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : reformation of the ancient tradition : interpreting the Fathers in the eucharistic debates --; title: Colloquy of Marburg (1529) : the Fathers as allies or liabilities --; title: John Calvin's use of the Fathers in the Institutes and New Testament commentaries --; title: John Calvin and Joachim Westphal : first phase of the debate (1555-1556) --; title: Calvin and Westphal, continued : second phase of the debate (1557-1558) --; title: Calvin versus Hesshusen : the Fathers as a challenge to biblical interpretation --; title: Use of the Fathers at the Colloquy of Montbéliard (1586) : Theodore Beza versus Jakob Andreae.