“Although intended for popular reading, is less a life of the great apostle than a critical inquiry into the disputes and controversies connected with his life.”
| + | Cath. World. 80: 540. Ja. ‘05. 550w. |
[*] “Is the clearest and ablest presentation of this subject yet made by an American.”
| + + + | Ind. 59: 1160. N. 16, ‘05. 40w. |
“A misnomer. It should rather be called A study in St. Paul, for Dr. Bacon is a critic rather than a historian. Certainly his mind is analytical rather than dramatic. For the student who desires to get the latest information which a fearless and reverent scholarship has to give respecting our sources of information concerning Paul and his Epistles, we know of no book better than this volume of Dr. Bacon, but it is distinctly the work of a student, and requires for its appreciation a student’s thoughtfulness.”
| + + | Outlook. 79: 192. Ja. 21, ‘05. 310w. |
“Although this is in the province of criticism, Professor Bacon’s treatment is of a popular nature. His book is, indeed, a union of constructive biography and scientific criticism.”
| + | R. of Rs. 31: 253. F. ‘05. 120w. |
“Dr. Bacon observes carefully and writes well; but he seems to us to be constantly getting a little more out of the text than is warranted; while the amount and complication of the alterations made in the history by ‘Luke’ (as he is called, in inverted commas) form a very serious objection to his theory.”
| + — | Sat. R. 100: 532. O. 21, ‘05. 430w. |