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Reasons to Believe: How to Understand, Explain, and Defend the Catholic Faith is a great first book for Catholics who seek to understand their faith in a world that suggests all religions are the same, or that Faith makes no sense. Scott Hahn makes an informative and useful argument to those seeking to improve their understanding of the Catholic faith. As such, Reasons to Believe: How to Understand, Explain, and Defend the Catholic Faith only applies to Catholics and those who take their faith seriously. Do you take your faith seriously?

Summary Of Reasons to Believe

This book is useful to Catholics because our culture has been infected with the unspoken belief that faith is just a matter of opinion, and that, in contrast to faith, it is only science and politics that deal with the real world. This is often called the “modern secular hypothesis.” Reasons to Believe: How to Understand, Explain, and Defend the Catholic Faith is a useful antidote to the ills of the modern world.

Scott Hahn examines this view and the problems with faith in the modern world. He uses this hypothesis in the first two sections of Catholics, starting with human reason and then moving on to God’s revelation in the Scriptures. He does a masterful job of showing the proper relationship between faith and reason, and the reasonableness of faith. In Reasons to Believe: How to Understand, Explain, and Defend the Catholic Faith.

In the final section of Reasons to Believe: How to Understand, Explain, and Defend the Catholic Faith, Hahn offers a positive alternative, which he calls the keys to the kingdom. There are ten “keys to the kingdom.” They are the characteristics of the Church that are evident in the Scriptures. As the story of creation discloses, the world is a house that has a father, a palace where the king is present. God created the cosmos to be a kingdom, and that kingdom is the universal Church, fully revealed by Jesus Christ.

37 Miracles by Jesus

Here are 37 more reasons to believe. 37 miracles performed by Jesus, in chronological order.

1. Jesus Turns Water into Wine at the Wedding in Cana
2. Jesus Heals an Official’s Son at Capernaum in Galilee
3. Jesus Drives Out an Evil Spirit From a Man in Capernaum
4. Jesus Heals Peter’s Mother-in-Law Sick With Fever
5. Jesus Heals Many Sick and Oppressed in the Evening
6. First Miraculous Catch of Fish on the Lake of Gennesaret
7. Jesus Cleanses a Man With Leprosy
8. Jesus Heals a Centurion’s Paralyzed Servant in Capernaum
9. Jesus Heals a Paralytic Who Was Let Down From the Roof
10. Jesus Heals a Man’s Withered Hand on the Sabbath
11. Jesus Raises a Widow’s Son From the Dead in Nain
12. Jesus Calms a Storm on the Sea
13. Jesus Casts Demons into a Herd of Pigs
14. Jesus Heals a Woman in the Crowd With an Issue of Blood
15. Jesus Raises Jairus’ Daughter Back to Life
16. Jesus Heals Two Blind Men
17. Jesus Heals a Man Who Was Unable to Speak
18. Jesus Heals an Invalid at Bethesda
19. Jesus Feeds 5,000 Plus Women and Children
20. Jesus Walks on Water
21. Jesus Heals Many Sick in Gennesaret as They Touch His Garment
22. Jesus Heals a Gentile Woman’s Demon-Possessed Daughter
23. Jesus Heals a Deaf and Dumb Man
24. Jesus Feeds 4,000 Plus Women and Children
25. Jesus Heals a Blind Man at Bethsaida
26. Jesus Heals a Man Born Blind by Spitting in His Eyes
27. Jesus Heals a Boy With an Unclean Spirit
28. Miraculous Temple Tax in a Fish’s Mouth
29. Jesus Heals a Blind, Mute Demoniac
30. Jesus Heals a Woman Who Had Been Crippled for 18 Years
31. Jesus Heals a Man With Dropsy on the Sabbath
32. Jesus Cleanses Ten Lepers on the Way to Jerusalem
33. Jesus Raises Lazarus from the Dead in Bethany
34. Jesus Restores Sight to Bartimaeus in Jericho
35. Jesus Withers the Fig Tree on the Road From Bethany
36. Jesus Heals a Servant’s Severed Ear While He Is Being Arrested
37. The Second Miraculous Catch of Fish at the Sea of Tiberias

Conclusion

Reasons to Believe: How to Understand, Explain, and Defend the Catholic Faith by Dr. Scott Hahn is an informative and inspirational book for Catholics. For those who will read the book it is readable as Hahn is an experienced author. The book is a tidy 227 pages. This book, as the title explains is useful for those who seek to defend the Catholic faith.