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ESTHER CHUNG-KIM
Assistant Professor of History of Christianity;
Assistant Professor of Religion (CGU)
Office: Craig 206
Phone: (909) 447-2572
Email: echungkim@cst.edu
Dr. Chung-Kim teaches and researches the Reformation and the Early Modern Period.
Her research interests include the history of biblical interpretation, history of sacraments and the problem of religious authority. Her current projects are on the reception of the early church fathers, biblical interpretation of Acts and interpretations on wealth/property.
She offers courses on the History of World Christianity, The Protestant Reformation and its Medieval Context, Women in the Early Modern Era, Life, Thought and Influence of Martin Luther and John Calvin, and The Radical Reformation and Nonviolent Traditions.
She is an ordained Elder of the Greater New Jersey Conference in The United Methodist Church and serves on the inaugural editorial board of Methodist Review: A Journal of Weslyan and Methodist Studies and on the program committee for the American Society of Church History.
EDUCATION
B.A., Drew University
M.Div., Th.M., Princeton Theological Seminary
Ph.D., Duke University
RECENT PUBLICATIONS / ACHIEVEMENTS
"Use of Wealth in the Christian Life: John Calvin's Biblical Interpretation," in Dulia et Latria 2 (April, 2009)
"Use of the Fathers in the Eucharistic Debates between John Calvin and Joachim Westphal" in Reformation 14 (December, 2009)
Interpreting a New Ancient Tradition: the Church Fathers in Reformation Debates over the Eucharist (Baylor University Press, forthcoming 2010)
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