Welcome back to another episode of five minutes in church history. We have a special guest with us today and we have another installment in our deserted island series.

This week we have with us Dr. Carl Truman. Carl Truman is a prolific author.

He is the Paul Woolley Professor of Church History at Westminster Theological Seminary.

He is also a co-host of The Mortification of Spin, a podcast, and he is a good friend of mine, and I am very glad to have him on this deserted island episode with us.

So Dr. Truman, welcome. It's great to be here, Steve. Well, thanks for being with us.

Here are the rules on our island. We already have the works of Augustine. We have the works of Luther,

we have the works of Calvin, and we have the works of Edwards.

So this is a different island, it's a rather theologically engaged island, and you're here

now and you get to pick your top five books for your time on your deserted island.

Oh interesting there's no chance I could swap Edwards for the complete works of Derek Thomas

I suppose. We will gladly add, we should add the works of the esteemed Derek Thomas.

Well it seemed a sufficiently depressing collection. It needed Derek I think in there.

Five books I would have well clearly I'd have quite enough theology

to be getting on with with those collections so I think I'd probably go for

non-theological books. If I wasn't depressed enough already being

completely isolated on my own. Probably,

Due the Obscuer by Thomas Hardy, would be one of my choices. Love that book, particularly

that it all goes horribly wrong at the end and everybody is devastated.

You can't can't beat that kind of an ending book.

It does. And Jude even knew his Greek?

Do you knew his Greek?

He knew his Greek.

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