"A Work of Tough-minded Scholarship..."

"Sullivan methodically unravels Dodd's case for realized eschatology and brings the reader to a new appreciation of such scholars as Weiss, Schweitzer, and the more recent New Testament specialists who see primitive Christianity in a radical apocalyptic context of urgency. The author has done a remarkable job of compacting the essence of his research into so few pages. It is a work of tough-minded scholarship, not pious or impious ramblings. Sullivan's treatise reminds those of us who are students of the New Testament that the study of Jesus of the Synoptics should be quite different from the self-indulgent taking of a Rorschach test."

-Joe Barnhart Professor of Philosophy University of North Texas