A gifted writer, Casey supplies us with some excellent throw-away lines to ponder. Treating of Jesus, the teacher, he remarks: "Teaching is for Jesus a formative relationship and not a tenured position." In dealing with confession, he reminds us: "healthy human living demands of us the capacity to regret, to apologize, and to admit to being wrong and doing wrong." In a chapter on Jesus, the Sower, dealing with Jesus's resort to parables, Casey notes that he--and we--needed to move into similes and metaphors because "divine intervention in human affairs can be described only obliquely by allusive language, poetry and similitude."

Casey has also carefully mined a relatively untapped source - Cistercian writers and their
sources - for a theology of grace which is largely missing in the plethora of modern
theological books on this topic. Therefore, this work which treats the topic of divinization
so simply and yet so thoroughly will also be of interest as a rich resource for those
researching this topic.