Education

University of Pennsylvania, B.A.
Westminster Theological Seminary, MDiv
Duke University, Ph.D.

About Dr. Waters

Dr. Guy Waters is the James M. Baird, Jr. Professor of New Testament and Academic Dean (Jackson, Brazil). He has a particular interest in the theology of Paul; the New Testament’s use of the Old Testament; biblical theology; and the relationship of the New Testament and Reformed Theology (particularly ecclesiology and the sacraments).

He received his B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania (1995), his MDiv from Westminster Theological Seminary (1998), and his Ph.D. from Duke University (2002).  Prior to coming to RTS Jackson in 2007, he served as Assistant Professor of Biblical Studies at Belhaven University from 2002-2007.

Dr. Waters is the author or editor of numerous books, chapters, articles, and book reviews. He is presently working on a commentary on Galatians in the new Reformed Exegetical and Theological Commentary on Scripture (Crossway), and an introductory biblical theological survey of covenant theology. He is the General Editor of Reformed Theological Review, and an Associate Editor of the Reformed Exegetical and Theological Commentary on Scripture.

Dr. Waters is a Teaching Elder in the Presbytery of the Mississippi Valley (PCA), and preaches regularly. He chaired the Presbytery’s Credentials Committee for more than a decade, and presently serves as Presbytery’s Parliamentarian. He has served on the PCA General Assembly’s Standing Judicial Commission since 2017.

Publications

BOOKS

BOOKS EDITED

  • With David Garner, ed. Word & Spirit: The Selected Shorter Writings of Richard B. Gaffin, Jr. (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 2023).
  • With J. Nicholas Reid and John Muether, eds., Covenant Theology: Biblical, Theological, and Historical Perspectives (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2020).

ARTICLES

  • “Theistic Evolution and the New Testament: Reflections Upon a Recent Proposal” for Presbyterion 50/1 (Spring 2024): 55-70.
  • “Herman Ridderbos and Romans 11: Two New Translations” (with Richard B. Gaffin, Jr.), Reformed Faith and Practice 8/2 (Spring 2024) and RTR, forthcoming. 
  • “Church and State: The Promise of Reformed Theology for the Church Today,” for Unio Cum Christo 9/2 (2023): 181-95.
  • “Faith and Treasuring Christ: A Review Article,” Reformed Faith & Practice 8/1 (Summer, 2023).
  • “Modern Reception of Paul: The Reformation,” in eds. Stanley E. Porter and David I. Yoon, The Pauline Mind (Routledge Religion Minds; New York: Routledge), forthcoming. 
  • “Allegory” in eds. G. K. Beale, D. A. Carson, Benjamin L. Gladd, and Andy Naselli, Dictionary of the New Testament’s Use of the Old Testament (Grand Rapids: Baker).
  • “Covenant of Works (New Testament)” in eds. Guy Prentiss Waters, J. Nicholas Reid, and John Muether, Covenant Theology: Biblical, Historical, and Theological Perspectives (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2020), 79-98.
  •  “Covenant in Paul” in eds. Guy Prentiss Waters, J. Nicholas Reid, and John Muether, Covenant Theology: Biblical, Historical, and Theological Perspectives (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2020), 227-246.
  • “Peter Enns and the Incarnational Analogy, Part 2” RTR Vol 79 No. 1 (April 1, 2020): 1-16.
  • “Suffering and Discipline in the Age to Come” in eds. Greg Peters and Matt Jenson, Distinguishing the Church: Explorations in Word, Sacrament, and Discipline (Eugene, OR: Pickwick, 2019), 125-37.
  • “Peter Enns and the Incarnational Analogy, Part 1” RTR Vol 78 No. 3 (December 1, 2019): 196-216.
  • “Curse Redux? 1 Cor 5:13, Deuteronomy, and Identity in Corinth” in eds. Linda Belleville and B. J. Oropeza, Scripture, Texts and Tracings in 1 Corinthians (Lexington / Fortress: Lanham, MD, 2019), 81-98.
  • “Calvin and the Law,” in eds. Derek W. H. Thomas and John W. Tweeddale, For A New Reformation: Celebrating the Life and Legacy of John Calvin, (Wheaton, Ill.: Crossway, 2019), 307-34

POPULAR ARTICLES

  • “Is Church Membership Biblical?” Tabletalk, August 2024.
  • “What Should We Think About Paedocommunion?” TGC (May 2024).
  • “The Church’s Process Against Misusers of Christian Liberty (WCF 20.4)” – Tabletalk, March 2024.
  • “The Benefits and Blessings of Ordination,” Presbyterian Polity (September 2023).
  • “Heavenly Rewards” for Tabletalk, February 2023.
  • “How (Not) To Keep the Sabbath” for Crossway (October 2022).
  • “Against Intinction” for TGC (April 2022).
  • “Introduction” to Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield, “On the Emotional Life of our Lord” (Madison, MS: Log College Press, 2022).
  • “The Doctrine of Sanctification Confessionally Defined” for Tabletalk, October 2021.
  • “Let My People Read! Encouraging God’s People to Read the Bible” for Theology for Life (April 2021).
  • “Plundering the Egyptians” for TGC (March 2021).
  • “One Baptism … or Two? A Study in Acts 8” for TGC (January 2021).
  • “Would Someone Tell Me What 2 Thessalonians 2 Means?!” for TGC (October 2020).