Nuttall's book is a lively and learned study ... impressive mastery of theology combined with much sensitivity to textual and literary details. * David Loewenstein, MLR, 96.2, 2001 * Nuttall is constantly illuminating and informative .../ Stephen Prickett, TLS, 9/7/99 entertaining and beautifilly written. * Margaret Anne Doody, Raritan, Fall 00. * the treatment has all of Nuttall's usual good-tempered energy and his gift for lateral thinking, ... full of intellectual energy and novelty. ... Much of the pleasure offered by this agreeably argumentative and learned study derives from the author's own power of scholarly fantasy;/Frank Kermode/LRB 15/10/98 Nuttall shows much learning ... Nuttall offers some engaging expositions of familiar material and some useful citations of less familiar lore. * E D Hill, CHOICE September 1999, vol 37 no1 *
