Beeke & Smalley Systematic Theology Vol. 1

Beeke and Smalley write in the preface,

Theology is conceived by hearing God's word, and it comes to birth by prayer. (p. 17)

The reader will discover this as he repeatedly finds us citing theologians such as Athanasius, Augustine, Peter Lombard, Thomas Aquinas, Martin Luther, and especially Reformed divines such as John Calvin, William Perkins, William Ames, Johannes Wollebius, the authors of the Leiden Synopsis, Thomas Goodwin, John Owen, Stephen Charnock, Francis Turretin, Wilhelmus a Brakel, John Gill, Charles Hodge, and Herman Bavinck. We are children who sit on the shoulders of giants. (p. 19-20)

Beeke, Joel and Paul Smalley. Reformed Systematic Theology. vol. 1. Revelation and God. Wheaton, IL: Crossway. 2019, pg. 17-20.