Welcome back to another episode of five minutes in church history. It's my pleasure to have on our show Dr Michael Horton. Dr Horton welcome Steve a pleasure

Been looking forward to having you and I'm going to give you your dream. I'm going to send you away to a deserted

island and just let you read. So you owe me one for this. Is my wife with me or you can bring

whomever you'd like? So on the island we're stalked we've got the Reformation study Bible and we always have to balance this out so we'll throw in the MacArthur study Bible too

We have the works of Edwards, Augustine Luther,, Calvin, of course.

But beyond that, what five essential books

would you like to take with you?

You're taking away all the ones I was gonna pick.

Oh, goodness. All right, I guess there are some classics that I haven't read that I should have read that I would like to get to.

What was I mentioned? True confession time.

True confession time. True confession time.

I think probably Horace, Augustine, the city of God.

City of God is going to ask you which of Augustus.

And I would say, well course a time for confidence by Steve Nichols and

R.C. Sprolled holiness of God although he's there so wow you know I was thinking about this and I've heard this said before

that city of God should be mandatory reading yeah right now especially for American Christian.

Man, the echoes.

What do you think it is about that book

that is essential for us to be thinking about?

You know, there's...

When the Roman Empire fell, which is the context, as you know, of that book,

Jerome said, what is the church going to do now that Rome has fallen. And Augustine's response was the city of

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