Deserted Island with Joel Kim: Theology and Pastoral Wisdom

5 Minutes in Church History with Stephen Nichols

Ligonier Ministries

Christianity, History, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2025

⏱️ 5 minutes

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What books have most shaped your faith? Today, Stephen Nichols continues his conversation with Joel Kim as he adds more titles to his deserted island library, each offering timeless encouragement for the Christian life.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to another episode of Five Minutes in Church History.
0:09.0	This is part two of deserted island with the Reverend Joel Kim, President of Westminster Seminary,
0:16.0	California and a professor there. And we are recording live at Ligonier's National Conference. And last time we were
0:24.4	together, you mentioned the team of rivals. And then you mentioned the Rising Sun, and now we were on
0:28.9	your third book. What would it be? So I was debating about a theological text that I would love to
0:35.7	carry along. Initially, I was going to mention the institutes by Calvin.
0:39.8	I know that sounds pretentious, but I was also told it's on the island.
0:43.3	It's already there.
0:43.8	Multiple copies.
0:45.2	In Latin, French, and English.
0:46.3	Oh, okay.
0:46.7	Very good.
0:47.1	What year?
0:48.1	All of the years.
0:48.8	Okay, very good.
0:49.6	The other possibility was a book that I love, which is Francis Turton in the length of theology,
0:55.2	but I assume that it might be on the island. Oh, I should have told you. It's there too.
0:58.7	Oh, yeah. I kind of figured. So the one that I would love to take is the Heideburg Catechism.
1:03.6	I think catechisms do not get the kind of play within churches and in many places that it deserves. And though I belong to
1:14.5	the Presbyterian Church in America, where the standards that we uphold are what they call
1:19.3	the Westminster Standards, Westminster Confession of Faith, larger and shorter catechism. And catechism
1:24.2	sounds very complicated, but it's a question and answer way of teaching theology
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