This is an exceptional book. Jones succeeds not only in profiling the often neglected motif of God’s patience. Above all, he brilliantly uses this motif to cast new light on classical theological topics like God's creation, God’s providence or human sin. And he does so in a theological exploration that constructively relates insights from the past with present day concerns and hopes for liberation. Readers of this first volume of Jones’ theological project will await the second volume with impatience.

- Markus Höfner, Universität Zürich, Switzerland,

<i>Patience—A Theological Exploration</i> is an exemplary synthesis of interpretive and constructive enquiry. Jones draws deeply and widely upon biblical, patristic, medieval, reformation-era, and modern sources to articulate a fresh and challenging vision of patience as, in one respect, a divine perfection, and in another, a neglected yet “burdened” human virtue.

- Joel David Stormo Rasmussen, University of Oxford, UK,

The book is a unique work [which]...presents a helpful framework to beginning thinking about God’s "letting be" and "letting happen"

Theologische Literaturzeitung

This is an impressive book, displaying deep, wide scholarship that draws on a vast range of sources, marshaling arguments that serve the author’s constructive project in convincing ways. Jones is successful in his dialectical reversal of focus, drawing our attention to God’s patience, and that not simply as some kind of analogy for human practice.

Direction Journal