There is a tendency to consider history as a smoothly advancing reality. The four-fold model, however, finds the events of world occur in quantum steps so that there are enduring, distinct stages in Salvation Historvy as there are in the "spiration" of Triune God and in the four-fold aspects of Wakan Tanka. Therefore, as the Person's of the Trinity and the spirits of the Four Directions remain enduringly distinct, so too are the levels of revealed religion in Salvation History to be recognized as enduringly distinct—of which the Lakota religion and the Christian religions are from two distinctly different stages of revealed religion and should be respected as such and remain enduringly distinct.

— The Pipe and Christ by William Stolzman