''Among historians of the Early Church in Europe today none surpasses Professor Cullmann wrote Professor F. F. Bruce in a review of this book adding: ''this volume of studies is assured of wide and eager acceptance.'' A reviewer from a quite different religious background Father Gervase Mathew aP. noted that these essays are ''marked by duce rare qualities: strong sanity enact scholarship and Christian charity''. ''All are written with the author''s customary distinction clarity and orderliness'' said an Anglican Canon Montefiore about this ''fine collection of brilliant essays''.