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It was off to a slow start and I was leaning toward three stars in the beginning, but it warmed up over time. Perhaps appropriate to his time and situation, Sheen will seem a bit focused on Communism to a modern reader. All-in-all, Sheen does a nice job of tying disparate parts of the four Gospels together making sometimes non-obvious connections and conclusions. He keeps most of his writing to an everyday language and seldom employs specialized academic vocabulary, though it is obvious he has done his homework and done a great deal of research to contextualize the Gospels, not merely giving the reader his own take on them. Still, if this is the best of Sheen's many works, I'm scratching my head as to the big deal some make of him. This doesn't reach Thomas à Kempis' The Imitation Of Christ for inspiration nor Frank Sheed's Theology and Sanityfor theological depth, for instance. Nonetheless, an interested reader will still find much to enjoy about this work and it is a good investment of time. A very good read.