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5 Minutes in Church History with Stephen Nichols

Deserted Island Top 5: Kevin DeYoung

5 Minutes in Church History with Stephen Nichols

Ligonier Ministries

Christianity, History, Religion & Spirituality

4.81.7K Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2018

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of 5 Minutes in Church History recorded live at Ligonier’s 2018 National Conference, Dr. Stephen Nichols asks Dr. Kevin DeYoung to share what five books he would want on a deserted island.

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0:00.0

Welcome back to another episode of five minutes in church history. On this episode I have a very special guest. I have Dr. Kevin DeYoung and we are going to give you your dream, Kevin. We are going to send you to a deserted island and let you just read books.

0:15.0

So you can take five books with you to this deserted island, so let's start.

0:20.0

What are you going to take?

0:22.0

Boy, I don't know, this is a lot of pressure. For sure, Turretin.

0:25.0

Excellent. I'm going to take Turretin, I'm going to take the three volumes.

0:30.0

Can I tell you something very quickly?

0:31.0

Yeah. I was just reading in one of R.C's books,

0:33.8

a contemporary book on the doctrine of God,

0:36.0

and in the back flyleaf, he wrote,

0:38.3

every reformed student should study Turritin. Yeah.

0:43.2

So he'd be so happy with your first choice.

0:45.8

I know.

0:46.8

I could tell all these years that knew that Dr.

0:49.5

Turritin is there.

0:51.1

It's like in the background.

0:52.1

Turritin's there. I'm going to take a hymnal so I can sing so I can study. I guess I'll do the Trinity

0:58.2

hymnal. It's short that I don't know if I want to use up but again my my background and my heritage

1:05.3

okay here's what I'll do I'll take Ursinus's commentary on the Heidelberg

1:08.3

Catechism so you get the catechism I get the caticism and I get the

1:12.3

commentary and this is Zacharias or Sinus that's right who is one of the

1:16.2

writers yeah the principal author of the Heidelberg catechism so I'm going to take that you know if I haven't finished my dissertation yet. I'm going to take the works of John Witherspoon

1:27.7

If I have I'll probably want to not see those for a while

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