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5 Minutes in Church History with Stephen Nichols

Deserted Island Top 5: Michael Reeves

5 Minutes in Church History with Stephen Nichols

Ligonier Ministries

Christianity, History, Religion & Spirituality

4.81.7K Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2014

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of 5 Minutes in Church History, Dr. Stephen Nichols is joined by Dr. Michael Reeves. He asks Dr. Reeves to share what five books he would want if on a deserted island.

Transcript

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0:00.0

On this episode of five minutes in church history we're going to be revisiting our deserted island and we have another special guest with us and this special guest actually lives on an island of sorts. it's a rather large island.

0:13.4

This of course is the UK.

0:15.0

And we have with us Dr. Michael Reeves.

0:17.4

Dr. Reeves is the Director of Union,

0:19.6

which is the Ministry of Wales Evangelical School of Theology where he serves on the faculty of theology

0:25.4

and he's our guest on this episode of five minutes and so I'd like to welcome him.

0:29.3

Welcome Dr. Reeves to our episode and to our deserted island.

0:32.6

Thank you. It's great to be here.

0:34.0

Well, on our deserted island, this is a special island.

0:36.8

It's got a rather interesting library already.

0:39.0

Great, sounds good.

0:40.0

You'll love it.

0:41.0

We've got Augustine, works of Augustine, Luther, Calvin Edwards.

0:45.2

We've got Shakespeare too, we'll throw him in, the Bard, and of course we have a Bible.

0:49.8

And so the question then is, you get to choose five, what would be your top five books for your time on this deserted island?

0:57.5

Oh, that's very hard. So I'm not allowed to choose any Luther?

1:01.0

He's already there. He's already there. Okay, well I'm this is a good place already. Okay, I would add to it. Richard Sibbs, if I can have the whole works of Richard Sibs, let's have it, but if I can't, I'd say the bruised read by Richard Sibbs.

1:15.5

There's number one so we've got sibs. I'll let you take the whole work so you can have

1:19.2

thank you or even better. You got sibs number two? Number two would be John Owen and my work there would be

1:26.9

communion with God and that is a wonderful work pushing us to be more deliberately Trinitarian in a very day-to-day

1:37.4

sense. So, Sibbs, Owen Communion with God, Athanasius on the incarnation.

1:45.0

Yes.

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