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ix Z Acknowledgments In preparing this book for publication, I have benefited from various mentors , colleagues, and friends who provided scholarly and moral support along the way. Without them, this project would not have come to fruition. I wish to acknowledge with gratitude those who helped clarify and strengthen the argument in the process of going from a doctoral dissertation to a published manuscript. I am particularly grateful to David C. Steinmetz, my advisor at Duke University, whose scholarship and passion for learning continue to stimulate and inspire my own work. I also want to thank the other members of my committee, Elizabeth Clark, Thomas Robisheaux , Ronald Witt, and Warren Smith, for their guidance and helpful feedback. I have also learned a great deal from Irena Backus at the University of Geneva, who encouraged this project in its nascent stages (and later read parts of the manuscript), and John Thompson at Fuller Seminary, who became a valuable conversation partner and offered pivotal guidance in the practical logistics of publishing. With great appreciation for sharing his expertise to make this book a better product, I want to thank Carey Newman, director of Baylor University Press, for exuding genuine enthusiasm for the project from the beginning and for his motivational feedback at our meeting in DallasFort Worth Airport. I also want to thank my reviewers for their specific insights and attention to detail that have enabled me to improve the overall project. I would also like to recognize the distinctive contributions of several research assistants, Matthew Garnett, Chris Zeichmann, Elizabeth x Inventing Authority Cossio, and especially Kirsten Gerdes, in assisting with proofreading and editing tasks. Several institutions provided financial and other assistance. I am grateful for the Graduate Summer Fellowship through Duke University and the John Wesley Fellowship through A Foundation for Theological Education. The Institut d’histoire de la Réformation in Geneva, Switzerland , awarded me a summer fellowship, during which time I began uncovering the sources for my latter chapters. The Pre-Tenure Faculty Summer Fellowship through the Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning afforded me protected time to complete my last round of revisions. While Duke University Libraries, especially that of the Divinity School and Special Collections, provided substantial services, the libraries at Princeton Theological Seminary, the University of Geneva, and the University of Tübingen were also instrumental. Thanks to Equinox Publishing for allowing the reprint of a revised version of the article titled “Use of the Fathers in the Eucharistic Debates between John Calvin and Joachim Westphal,” which originally appeared in Reformation 14 (December 2009). Since research and writing are a shared journey, I am appreciative of the assistance of my friends and colleagues in the faculty at Claremont and in the Steinmetz cohort, especially G. Sujin Pak, who helped me to see the big picture. They knowingly or unknowingly made the enterprise of writing this book more enjoyable. I must also thank my parents, who encouraged me along this academic path and held an unwavering faith that I would arrive at this point. Finally, I am deeply grateful to Steven, my husband and best friend, who urged me to prioritize this book and cheerfully tolerated my absence at family activities, as well as to my sons, Nathan and Eli, who illustrated their own works on the back pages of my manuscript drafts in order to show me that all my efforts were not in vain. ...

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