"The most promising theological undertaking of the present generation. -Lloyd Gaston, Religion & Intellectual Life on the series

"One of the two or three most important books on Jewish-Christian relations writ since Hurban Europa.... A milestone in the continuing Jewish-Christian dialogue.-Jewish Frontier on Part 1

"If good theology blends the historic wisdom of a community of faith, obligation to the contemporary world, and the theologian's own commitment, Discerning the Way is very good theology." The Christian Century on Part 1

"Van Buren has explicated Christian theology in such a way as to see Judaism and the Jewish people as fellow-travellers, even 'elder brothers and sisters, on the same Way to the Kingdom of God.... [He] has done both contemporary Christianity and contemporary Judaism together a theological service of greatest import."

-Judaism A Quarterly Journal of Jewish Life and Thought on Part 1