Christ tackles the whole of the New Testament canon and inquires what the earliest Christian documents had to say about “Jesus, who is the Lord”… Though Schillebeeckx is not professional New Testament scholar, he appears to have mastered the available material as completely as anyone can hope to – and kept his head in the process. There are dozens of individual judgments that could, and surely will, be quibbled about… But short of going over the whole ground again - a decade’s work – it is difficult to fault his exegeses or his main interpretative scheme’ (Peter Hebblethwaite in the Times Literary Supplement).