Frankly, for a C. S. Lewis fan, this was edition was worth buying just for his introduction. His essay expounds on the difficulties of approaching ancient texts generally with his customary acuity.

As for Athanasius himself, well, there's no denying that his whole way of thinking and approach to argument are unfamiliar to modern readers. If you want to learn about the Incarnation on your own level, then look elsewhere. But then you risk, as Lewis points out, losing your historic grounding, becoming trapped in the thinking of the present age.

The translation I am here reviewing is about as perspicuous as one can hope; nevertheless, it needs to be read slowly, and to be gradually digested and thought through, sentence by sentence. Don't be deceived by the thinness of the volume; you will not be able to skip through this lightly.