Thus, a reader is led from thinking about the patience of God as
displayed in the Bible... to early Christian thought as
displayed in Tertullian, Cyprian, and Augustine... to the characteristically
medieval emphases of Gregory the Great, Aquinas, and Thomas Kempis... and finally to Calvin, Jeremiah Burroughs, and Kierkegaard - men who, though quite separated in
time, represent perspectives shaped by the Reformation.