By Scott Hahn
With a great deal of presumption, I have taken to calling
Scott Hahn my spiritual brother, since a couple of years ago I discovered that
we, both raised Protestant, were received into the Holy Roman Catholic Church
on the same evening, during the Easter Vigil of 1986 – half a continent apart,
of course. I’ve been aware of him as Catholic scholar and apologist supreme for
a great deal of the intervening time, at least since the mid 1990s. I hadn’t
actually read any of his books until the last couple of years, however. But
then our parish distributed free copies of his and his wife, Kimberly’s conversion story,
Rome Sweet Home: Our Journey to
Catholicism (1993), which I read and blogged about as part of my Lenten
reading for 2014 [LINK].
At some point subsequent to that, I acquired and listened to an audio talk
based upon The Lamb’s Supper, giving
more detail to the story of his conversion and how it came through intense
study of the Book of Revelation, interpreting it through the lens of the Mass;
the book fleshes that interpretive scheme out even further. Then, for my Lenten
reading 2015 I undertook A Father Who
Keeps His Promises.
