Deserted Island with Derek Thomas, Part 1

5 Minutes in Church History with Stephen Nichols

Ligonier Ministries

Christianity, History, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 2 March 2022

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From thick theology tomes to biographies of opera composers, what books would Dr. Derek Thomas want to have with him on a deserted island? On this episode of 5 Minutes in Church History, he joins Dr. Stephen Nichols to share some of his selections.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to another episode of Five Minutes in Church History. Once again, it's a real pleasure to have Dr. Derrick Thomas with us. Dr. Thomas.
0:08.5	Hello. Wonderful to see you Steve. Nice to see you. We're gonna give you a treat here.
0:14.6	We're gonna relieve you of your pastoral duties and all the Ligonier duties we have for you.
0:20.0	And we're just gonna send you off to a deserted island for a while with whatever five books
0:27.0	you'd like to take with you. So what would those five books be?
0:31.8	Right. Well, of course, let's start seriously. I would assume I've got a Bible.
0:38.5	You do have a Bible. A Reformation Study Bible. I would want Calvin's Institutes
0:46.5	because they have been seminal for me for 40 years. I've taught courses on Calvin's Institutes,
0:54.5	which is walking through page by page. And I probably taught that course multiple times,
1:01.4	and I'm still only in the shallows. I'm just dipping my toes in. And for a man in his
1:10.3	mid to late 20s to put together the first edition of 1536 that already shows a mind on a par with
1:20.3	Augustine. And he was a young convert. He had just been a Christian for a little over a year.
1:25.9	He had studied law, but he had never been seminary. And so where did all this come from?
1:32.1	Just absolutely breathtaking. And then the rest of his life expanding and expanding and expanding.
1:38.1	And it's a book that you'd never grow tired of. So we have Calvin's Institutes. What would be next?
1:44.8	Bunyan's Pilgrims Progress was because it's been important to me. And again, if I can have both
1:52.0	volumes, because volume two is in fact the better of the two in my opinion. I think the first
1:58.3	volume is an autobiography. And all the problems people have with why did Christian take so long
2:04.0	to lose his burden. And the answer is because it's a biography of Bunyan. It's describing his
2:09.7	experience of conversion. But the use of allegory is just absolutely breathtaking. And I think
2:16.6	that Bunyan was a nice man. I mean, he really was a really nice man. You know, 12 years in prison.
2:25.5	And then when he comes out, he's not bitter. He's not angry. I think he was someone
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