Deserted Island, Church Fathers Edition: Irenaeus & Athanasius

5 Minutes in Church History with Stephen Nichols

Ligonier Ministries

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, History

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2023

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Which books written by the church fathers would you want on a deserted island? Today, Dr. Michael Reeves joins Dr. Stephen Nichols to discuss two of the books he would bring.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to another episode of Five Minutes in Church History.
0:10.0	We are once again at Ligonier's National Conference.
0:12.2	And I've asked Dr. Reeves to step back into our podcast studio to have another episode
0:17.9	with us.
0:18.9	Dr. Reeves, it's great to see you again.
0:19.9	Great to be back.
0:20.9	Well, on this one, we're going to send you to a deserted island.
0:24.0	Now, I believe we have done this to you before.
0:26.6	I've been on that island.
0:27.6	I had fun there.
0:28.6	Great.
0:29.6	I'm glad you liked it, because we're sending you back.
0:32.4	But this time, we are going to restrict the area of books that you can choose from to
0:39.0	the Church Father.
0:40.4	Oh, OK.
0:41.4	So this is deserted island, Church Father's Edition, five books go.
0:46.8	OK.
0:48.0	I love many of the Church Fathers, and they're not what many reformed people think.
0:54.8	I think many reformed people often look at the Church Fathers and think, isn't that
0:58.8	a sort of crypto-catholic, and you see a mixed bag of theology, but what I love to be
1:06.6	able to show people is how actually the great Theologians of the early Church, really,
1:14.1	the reformed tradition is in straight continuity.
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