Welcome back to this formed book study on Father Isaac Morales' book, the Bible and baptism,

The Fountain of Salvation, which, as you know, if you saw the first episode, is the first in a series that Dr.

Tim Gray and I are editing for Baker academic

on a Catholic biblical theology of the sacraments. I'm really excited to be back here with

you, Father, for this second episode in which we'll get to dive into the book and give you

a sense of what Father is up to in here. I think it's going to be a really rich conversation seeing how the Bible can deepen our

understanding of the sacrament of baptism.

So Father, let's just start with a little observation about the title, which is that

it's simply called the Bible and baptism,

a beautifully straightforward title for a book.

Nobody's going to be confused as to what this book is about.

But, you know, when I turn to the table of contents, you've got 12 chapters in all,

and four of them are devoted just to the Old

Testament. And as I mentioned in the last episode, that might seem initially a little bit

unexpected, right? Baptism, as we know, is something that we see in the New Testament that

is undergone by Jesus himself, that's practiced

in the early church. St. Paul writes about it in his letters. And of course, Father said

that's how he got into this topic in the first place was through studying Paul. So why have four

chapters in the Old Testament when baptism doesn't actually appear in the Old Testament?

That's a great question.

And I talk about it in the introduction to the book.

One of the things that makes this book relatively unique is that there are a lot of books on baptism in the New Testament.

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