Creative, Insightful, and Ambitious.
-- First Things
Clear and cogent, Gratitude provides an opportunity for faculty and students alike to rethink issues that are both intellectual and practical.
-- Choice
One of the distinct pleasures of a new Leithart book is the opportunity it gives us to watch a smart, unpredictable mind sharing his reactions to the books he's worked through. This new work deepens that pleasure.
-- Christianity Today
Elegantly written, intellectually stimulating, and practically helpful
-- Themelios
...Leithart is exemplary in his performance of what a kind of Christian-theological account of history of ideas might look like.
-- Freedom in Orthodoxy
Peter Leithart’s book addresses what he has perceived to be a significant gap in the literature, namely tracing how thinking in the West about gratitude has shifted since first attracting the interest of the Greek and Roman philosophers. His work demonstrates how the emergence of Christianity in particular caused a very sizeable rethink on the subject, a radical redefinition which has been widely influential, and yet not often in all its ramifications.
-- Scottish Bulletin of Evangelical Theology
