[S]cholars will be grateful to D'Costa for much scrupulous sifting that leads to judicious conclusions.
Michael Barnes SJ, Theology
Gavin D'Costa has given us a painstakingly exhaustive analysis of the documents of the Second Vatican Council related to the Catholic Churchs view of non-baptized persons and, more specifically, of Jews and Muslims....he has a great deal to say of importance to anyone committed to Jewish-Catholic relations today. ...he has done Catholics (and Jews) a service by offering us this careful textual analysis that calls the conclusions of some other Catholic thinkers into question.
James Frederic, Studies in Jewish-Christian Relationships
His welcome and timely study of the teaching of the Vatican Council about other religions, especially Judaism and Islam, must become standard reading for anyone who wants to consider what the texts for the Council say and how this relates to the debate over discontinuity and continuity.
Martin Ganeri, New Blackfriars
This clear and well-organized volume draws on an admirable amount of research in the primary and secondary sources.
Gerald O'Collins, Theological Studies
What D'C. writes about historical, literary, and theological hermeneutics repays study.
Gerald O'Collins, Theological Studies