Hello everybody and welcome to this special formed book study.

My name is Dr. John Seahorn.

I'm the academic dean here at the Augustine Institute Graduate School of Theology.

And I'm also, along with Dr. Tim Gray, our president, an editor of a new series from Baker Academic on Catholic Biblical Theology of the Sacraments.

And I'm delighted to have with me here, Father Isaac Morales, who is the author of the first volume to be released in that series, which is called The Bible and Baptism.

So over the next few episodes, we're going to be discussing Father Isaac's book,

talking about the mystery of Christian baptism, and how a deeper reading of sacred scripture

can illumine our understanding of this great gift of God.

So Father Isaac, why don't you tell us a little bit about yourself?

Okay.

I was born and raised in the northern suburbs of Chicago, and when I got to be college age,

I decided to go off to Duke University in North Carolina, and I was going to study civil

engineering because I was a math science person, and I didn't like to write, and I thought I was bad at it. Oh, wow. Kind of funny. He's not. He's very good at writing. And about halfway through my time there, I realized I didn't like engineering. And it was a little bit too late to switch majors. But so I decided to just make some plans to switch to do. I was getting more interested in my faith, getting more interested in theology. So I thought, I want to do this.

I want to just make some plans to switch and to do. I was getting more interested in my faith,

getting more interested in theology. So I thought, I want to do this. I want to teach at the college

level. So after I graduated, I worked for a couple of years. Then I went back to graduate school. I did

my master's at Notre Dame, went back to Duke, where I did my doctor in New Testament. And then from

there I went to Marquette University,

where I got my first job teaching in their theology department.

And all the while for about 10 or 15 years, in the back of my mind,

there was this nagging suspicion that maybe God was calling me to the priesthood,

and I wanted nothing to do with it.

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