Welcome to Season 6 of Down Under Theology, a podcast equipping and encouraging Australian Christians to get down and under the theology impacting the life and mission of the church.

In Season 6 of the show, we’re working our way through the story of the Bible in 12 key passages. Together, these passages will take us from creation to new creation, across the different sections and genres of Scripture, with Christ at the centre.

In this episode, Allister, Cam and Murray discuss John 1:1–18 and the prologue to John’s Gospel. They explore how John’s Gospel relates to the Synoptics, how the prologue echoes Genesis 1 and the revelation of God’s glory at Sinai, and how to hear Old Testament allusions when reading the New Testament. They also look at the shape of the prologue and its likely chiastic structure, centred on the Word becoming flesh so that we might become children of God.

They also consider how the prologue displays the full deity of the Son, the incarnation and the light shining in the darkness, and how Jesus makes the Father known. They reflect on what this means for the church as the children of God drawn from every nation, and for the hope of seeing Christ’s glory face to face in the new creation.

Thoughts, questions or feedback? Get in touch with us at downundertheology@gmail.com.

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Episode Hosts:

• Allister Lum Mow
• Cameron Clausing (@cam_clausing)
• Murray Smith

Producer:

• Josie Dallos

Episode Sponsor:

• Christ College, Sydney

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S6 Episode 8 – Show Notes
Recommended Resources –

• The Gospel According to John (Pillar New Testament Commentary) by D. A. Carson
• John (Zondervan Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament) by Edward W. Klink III
• CSB Connecting Scripture New Testament edited by G. K. Beale and Benjamin L. Gladd
• Father, Son and Spirit: The Trinity and John’s Gospel (New Studies in Biblical Theology) by Andreas J. Köstenberger and Scott R. Swain
• Devotions on the Gospel of John for Teens (four-book series: Who Is Jesus?, Humble Servant, The Way, the Truth, and the Life and That You Might Believe) by Abby Van Solkema

Many of these resources are available to borrow from the Christ College Library. General library membership is $100 per year.

Our friends at Reformers Bookshop are offering all of our listeners 15% off their orders. Enter the code DUTHEOLOGY15 at checkout to receive the discount. Thank you so much to Reformers for partnering with us in this way.

Welcome to Season 6 of Down Under Theology, a podcast equipping and encouraging Australian Christians to get down and under the theology impacting the life and mission of the church.

In this special episode, Murray is joined by Dr Guy Prentiss Waters, the James M. Baird Jr. Professor of New Testament at Reformed Theological Seminary in Jackson, to discuss his new book One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church: The Biblical Doctrine of the Church, the latest volume in the We Believe: Studies in Reformed Biblical Doctrine series.

They discuss how Guy came to write on the church and how he brings biblical and systematic theology together. They also discuss why the church began not at Pentecost but in Eden, and what continuity and newness mean for the people of God across the covenants. Along the way they explore the four creedal attributes of the church, how the church relates to the Trinity, and why the Reformers saw the word as the primary mark of the church.

They also consider the church’s mission to gather and perfect the saints, and the relationship between church and state. The conversation closes with the seven theses that summarise the book’s argument.

Thoughts, questions or feedback? Get in touch with us at downundertheology@gmail.com.

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Episode Host:

• Murray Smith

Special Guest:

• Guy Prentiss Waters

Producer:

• Josie Dallos

Episode Sponsor:

• Christ College, Sydney

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Show Notes
Recommended Resources –

• One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church: The Biblical Doctrine of the Church by Guy Prentiss Waters
• How Jesus Runs the Church by Guy Prentiss Waters

Many of the resources are available to borrow from the Christ College Library. General library membership is $100 per year.

Our friends at Reformers Bookshop are offering all of our listeners 15% off their orders. Enter the code DUTHEOLOGY15 at checkout to receive the discount. Thank you so much to Reformers for partnering with us in this way.

Welcome to Season 6 of Down Under Theology, a podcast equipping and encouraging Australian Christians to get down and under the theology impacting the life and mission of the church.

In Season 6 of the show, we’re working our way through the story of the Bible in 12 key passages. Together, these passages will take us from creation to new creation, across the different sections and genres of Scripture, with Christ at the centre.

In this episode, Allister, Cam and Murray discuss Isaiah 52:13–53:12 and the song of the suffering servant. They place the passage within the book of Isaiah and the unfolding Servant Songs, and explore how the servant moves from Israel as a nation to a single individual. They look at the servant who is marred, rejected and exalted, who bears the griefs and iniquities of many and is vindicated, sees his offspring and divides the spoil.

They also trace this prophecy through Scripture to Jesus, the servant who gave his life as a ransom for many, and consider what it means for the church’s assurance, mission and suffering. They reflect on the nations gathered around the slain Lamb, and on the priest who even now makes intercession for the transgressors until the kingdom is consummated.

Thoughts, questions or feedback? Get in touch with us at downundertheology@gmail.com.

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Episode Hosts:

• Allister Lum Mow
• Cameron Clausing (@cam_clausing)
• Murray Smith

Producer:

• Josie Dallos

Episode Sponsor:

• Christ College, Sydney

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S6 Episode 7 – Show Notes
Recommended Resources –

• The Gospel According to Isaiah 53: Encountering the Suffering Servant in Jewish and Christian Theology edited by Darrell L. Bock and Mitch Glaser
• What Did the Cross Achieve? The Logic of Penal Substitution by J. I. Packer (free online)
• From Heaven He Came and Sought Her: Definite Atonement in Historical, Biblical, Theological, and Pastoral Perspective edited by David Gibson and Jonathan Gibson
• Motyer By the Day: A Psalms and Isaiah Devotional Collection by Alec Motyer

Many of these resources are available to borrow from the Christ College Library. General library membership is $100 per year.

Our friends at Reformers Bookshop are offering all of our listeners 15% off their orders. Enter the code DUTHEOLOGY15 at checkout to receive the discount. Thank you so much to Reformers for partnering with us in this way.