'...impressive for its clarifying definitions and distinctions of terms that have the potential of great ambiguity, and for relating these past questions to present-day concerns.'
Horton Davies, Religious Studies Review, 1981.
'...graduate and advanced undergraduate libraries ought to acquire this book for their history of theology collections.'
Choice, 1979.
'...a useful contribution to seventeenth-century Church history.'
John Aveling, Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 1980.