On
August 30, 2008 Dr. Scott Hahn (one
of the most remarkable theologians and Catholic authors of our time) was
the featured guest speaker at St. Lambert Parish.
He gave a three-part presentation (totaling
158 minutes) on St. Paul and the Sacred Scriptures.
We made this into an 18-part video clip
presentation for YouTube as well as a 4-part presentation on Google.
As some of you know, YouTube limits the length of clips to a maximum of
10 minutes while Google allows a maximum time of 60 minutes or maximum
size of 100 MB in size.
Just click on the embedded clips or links
below..........
Dr. Scott Hahn started out as a Presbyterian
minister and theologian with years of ministry experience in congregations
of the Presbyterian Church in America, and Professor of Theology at Chesapeake
Theological Seminary.
As a young theologian, Scott Hahn was convinced
that the Catholic Church was bad, and boasted of having converted some
Catholics into embracing a purer Christianity. His conversion began when
he and his wife became convinced that contraception was contrary to God's
law. He continued to study various issues relating to salvation, faith,
and good works, as well as the Protestant doctrine of sola scriptura.
According to his book Rome Sweet Home,
a key factor behind his conversion is his research on what he saw as the
key to the Bible: the covenant. This is a sacred kinship bond that brought
people into a family relationship. God established a series of covenants
and the new covenant established by Jesus Christ is an establishment of
a world-wide family. He believes that Jesus and the apostles used family
based language to describe his work of salvation: God is Father, Christ
is Son and the firstborn among brethren, heaven as a marriage feast, the
Church is the spouse of God, Christians as children of God.
This new family, according to Hahn, is
headed by Christ, and the Pope is his "prime minister" to whom he has given
the keys of the kingdom, a process that he believes is also present in
the Old Testament. Hahn tries to show that the Catholic Church, whose head
is called "Holy Father", is the world-wide family described by the Bible
and that the Protestant doctrines of sola fide and sola scriptura are not
biblical because, in his view, the Bible stresses charity and works equally
with faith for gaining salvation and points to the Church as the "pillar
and the bulwark of the truth" (1 Tim 3:15). He affirms that the Protestant
view of the Bible as a "fallible collection of infallible writings" is
flawed.
Scott Hahn converted to Catholicism on
Easter 1986 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Many people, using his wife's words,
have started to call him "Luther in reverse," since a large number of Protestant
pastors and Bible scholars have from then on followed suit in converting
to Catholicism.
Hahn's wife Kimberly had a similar conversion
at a slightly later date, entering the Catholic Church on Easter 1990 in
Joliet, Illinois. Rome Sweet Home describes their process of conversion
together.
Hahn founded and is currently the President
of the St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology, a Christian research center
and think tank committed to the promotion of biblical literacy among the
Catholic laity and biblical fluency among Catholic clergy. Some of the
projects include online and parish-based Bible studies, a book series,
pilgrimages, and a scholarly journal, Letter and Spirit. He is also the
founder and director of the Institute of Applied Biblical Studies.
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On
August 30, 2008 Dr. Scott Hahn (one
of the most remarkable theologians and Catholic authors of our time) was
the featured guest speaker at St. Lambert Parish.
