A Father Who Keeps His Promises: God’s Covenant Love in Scripture is a 1998 book by Scott Hahn. A Father Who Keeps His Promises: God’s Covenant Love in Scripture explores the covenant of love God reveals to us in scripture and explores how God patiently reaches out to us to restore us to a relationship with his divine family. A Father Who Keeps his Promises: God’s Covenant Love in Scripture is 293 pages long and will appeal to Catholics and may appeal to everyone. Hahn has written 30 books, and this was his third. A Father Who Keeps His Promises: God’s Covenant Love in Scripture is educational and should be read by all Catholics. Will you read this book?
Summary of A Father Who Keeps His Promises: God’s Covenant Love in Scripture
In A Father Who Keeps his Promises: God’s Covenant Love in Scripture Scott Hahn explores what he calls the “covenant love” God reveals to us through the Blessed Scriptures. Hahn explains how God reaches out to us, despite our shortcomings, to restore us into relationship with his divine family.
In A Father Who Keeps his Promises: God’s Covenant Love in Scripture Scott Hahn follows the adventure of God’s plan for the ages, beginning with Adam and Eve and continuing down through the generations to the coming of Christ and the birth of the Church. All of biblical history. You will discover how the love of God revealed in the Bible is the same love he has for you.
There are a few key features In A Father Who Keeps His Promises: God’s Covenant Love in Scripture. Scott Hahn shares the story of God’s covenant love throughout the narrative of biblical history. Hahn focuses on the themes of the covenant and family. Finally, Hahn draws insight from Protestant biblical scholars and ancient rabbinic and modern Jewish sources to supplement the Catholic perspective in this educational and inspirational book.
There are a few highlights from the text. First, Hahn writes on pages 18 and 19, “Why do we have to love like God in the first place? Scripture gives us an answer in two parts: First, the Old Testament shows that we were made to live like God by sharing love within the human family during our earthly stay; second, the New Testament shows that we were remade to live in God by sharing the love of the Blessed Trinity for eternity in heaven. Both elements are essential for understanding what it means to be truly human, but only the second one is our true and ultimate end, what theologians call the Beatific Vision.”
Second, what is the purpose of biblical history? Hahn writes on page 21, “From a Hebrew perspective, the primary purpose of biblical history is to recount humanity’s familial history in the light of God’s covenant plan for his people.” On page 64 Hahn explains about Adam’s motivation, “In short, the reason why Adam succumbed to pride and disobedience was because of his fear of suffering and unwillingness to die, even for the love of his Father and bride.” Finally, Hahn writes about morality in human life on page 29, “The moral order of human life may be invisible, but it is governed by covenant laws that are no less firmly fixed than the laws of physics.” (Page 29)
Scott Hanh’s Prolific Career
Scott Hahn is a prolific Catholic apologist and author. He has written 30 books and A Father Who Keeps his Promises: God’s Covenant Love in Scripture was his third. Scott Hahn is 67 years old and is an American Catholic theologian and Christian apologist. A former Protestant, Hahn was a Presbyterian minister who converted to Catholicism. Hahn currently teaches at the Franciscan University of Steubenville, a Catholic university in Steubenville, Ohio.
Hahn converted to Catholicism at Easter 1986. Hahn’s conversion began when he was convinced that contraception was contrary to God’s law. Hahn was bothered that the Catholic Church was the only tradition that upheld the ancient teaching of prohibiting contraception that Protestants abandoned in the early 20th century. Hahn continued to study various issues relating to salvation, and as a result, he wrote 30 books.
Hahn founded and is currently the president of the St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology, a Catholic non-profit research and educational institute committed to the promotion of biblical literacy located in Steubenville, Ohio. Since 1990, Scott Hahn has taught at the Franciscan University of Steubenville, where he is the Father Michael Scanlan, TOR, Chair of Biblical Theology and the New Evangelization. Hahn and his wife currently have 23 grandchildren.
Conclusion
A Father Who Keeps His Promises: God’s Covenant Love in Scripture is both educational and inspirational. In it, the prolific Catholic author covers biblical history from Adam to Jesus and relates that biblical history to our lives. A Father Who Keeps His Promises: God’s Covenant Love in Scripture will appeal to Catholics and may appeal more broadly.
