Daniel L. Pals: "Those who imagine that Albert Schweitzer has spoken the last word on Jesus in the nineteenth century stand ready to be corrected by this lucid, wide-ranging reassessment of christology from Reimarus to Renan." (Church History)

Tom Schreiner: "The quality of [Brown's) research and the lucidity of his exposition are impressive. And when the author steps back to summarize the conclusions, his insights are consistently valuable and penetrating" (Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society)

Donald G. Dawe: "A masterful treatment of the rise of modern christology.... this is a work of incisive and analytic scholarship, not a collection of brief sketches of these christologies. It is more than a picture of the past. It is a resource dealing with the christological quandanes of today." (Theology Today)

John P. Galvin: "[The book's objective style makes it suitable for use even by those who might differ with Brown's evaluative comments." (Theological Studies)