Esther Chung-Kim

Esther Chung-Kim is Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Associate Director of The Gould Center of Humanities at Claremont McKenna College in Claremont, California. Her research focuses on questions of authority, early modern biblical interpretation, and poor relief reform. She has published books on Inventing Authority: Use of the Church Fathers in Reformation Debates over the Eucharist (2011), Reformation Commentary on Scripture: Acts (2014) and most recently, Economics of Faith: Reforming Poor Relief in Early Modern Europe (2021). She teaches courses on History of World Christianity; Poverty, Wealth, and Social Change; Christianity and Politics in East Asia; and The European Reformation. She is an ordained Elder in the United Methodist Church.