Welcome back to another episode of five minutes in church history. On this episode we're going to be continuing our journey to our deserted island.

We have a very special guest this week. We have Dr. Robert Godfrey. Dr Godfrey is the president of Westminster Seminary, California,

and also a teaching fellow at Ligonier Ministries,

and, I should add, a church historian.

So welcome Dr Godfrey.

Thank you very much.

I think it's great to be here.

Although this island is getting crowded and this is a harder assignment

than one might think until one actually has to try to think it through.

It is difficult. There's so many books to choose from, but here are the ground rules.

You're on our deserted island. This isn't just any island. That's

very theologically engaged island. So we already have a Bible. We have

Augustine and we have Calvin's works and we have Jonathan Edwards works. So beyond those, what would be your top five books

for your deserted island? Well I'm going to maybe surprise some people but if I'm on

a deserted island, A, the first criteria is books

have to be long so that I can have plenty to occupy myself, and I decided that theology is only good company for so long.

So since you already have some theological works there, I decided I would want to take some other

kinds of things.

So I would first of all take my favorite novel, Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace.

Now that's a first, but that's great.

War and Peace? And yes, not to know Natasha Rostov is not to have lived.

So you really need to read War and Peace.

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