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Summary: Exciting!
Review: Dr Haan and his wife Kimberly has a wonderful story of coming home into the wonderful Catholic church. I know personally from experience of being called to the table of the Eucharist during the mass. Christ is there and present with his body, blood, soul & divinity. To say the Eucharist is symbolic-is to say that Christ died was symbolic. If only my Baptist friends and other denominations could experience the real presence of Christ! You will never be the same! Give this book to your friends and ministers. This book will change their lives and perspective on the sacred Eucharist.
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Summary: Very readable, biblical & challenging for me as a Baptist
Review: I was very skeptical when I first began reading this book, but then I couldn't put it down. As a Bible-believing Christian myself, I would strongly recommend it, especially for anyone who's willing to listen to and learn from a very sensible presentation of why a die-hard Protestant like Hahn would feel compelled by the Bible to become a Catholic. Even though it is clearly written and charitably argued, it's probably not the best book to give someone who prefers public debates or polemical writings, like a previous reviewer who seems to be looking for a fight. (Just for the record, his critique was not only saracastic, but unreliable--James White told me himself that Scott Hahn NEVER agreed to a debate him. Likewise, if he truly read the book, he'd know that the Hahns went to a non-denominational Evangelical seminary--Gordon-Conwell is not Presbyterian. Oh well.) In my opinion, any sincere Bible-believer who reads this book with an open mind will be challenged, as I am, but certainly not disappointed.
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Summary: soup kitchen
Review: Entering the Catholic Church in my early teens, I remember our youth group volunteering at the soup kitchen, collecting baby supplies for the local crisis pregnancy center, and raking leaves for the elderly. I never waived my hands in the air at a church service, attended a conference or listed to an audio tract-nothing wrong with that, I guess. When I got to college, some students informed me that I needed to find Jesus in my life. One student even accused me of praying to dead saints, and worshiping statues. Super! I hear that she is now home schooling. Those kids should be great. Well, thanks to this book, if some co-ed accuses me of leaving Jesus nailed to the cross, I can now answer them at their own high level, and I guess that there is something earthly appealing about that. Honestly, though, I learned a lot about the Catholic faith from books like this-things that I probably should have known. But, in the larger picture, I think that I was way ahead in my faith journey back when I was a silly kid in youth group, then at any period during my time spent studying apologetics.
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Summary: Perfect presentation of Catholicism for this Evangelical
Review: This is the most exciting narrative of how serious study of God's Word could lead an anti-Catholic to convert. Speaking personally, I'm probably six months away from making the same decision. Before reading this book, however, I would have said TEN YEARS! But the biblical arguments were far more powerful and persuasive than I have ever read before. The depth of the Hahn's relationship with Jesus Christ is so inspiring. They love Christ and believe Scripture more than they opposed the Catholic Church. They were humble enough to change their minds even though it proved to be so costly. I especially enjoyed Kimberly sharing her own deep struggles. There is no other book like this one. I have purchased three extra copies for my Catholic friends.
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Summary: Charitable and Compelling...
Review: I originally read this book as a Catholic who had left the Church to join a Pentecostal assembley. This is the book which brought me back into the Catholic Church. Scott and his wife Kimberly provide a compelling testimony as to how they came to discover the truths of the Catholic Church. At the time, Scott was finishing his theological studies as a Reformed Presbyterian minister. Kimberly came from a lineage of well-known Presbyterian ministers. They were not your usual candidates for Catholic conversion. Nevertheless, Scott came across a couple old Catholic theology books and began reading them with interest. As he read, he began to struggle with certain theological questions pertaining to Catholicism. Initially, Kimberly was not impressed by the direction she saw her husband going, and Scott's theological quest took a personal turn. One of the nice things about this book is that while it recounts Scott and Kimberly's theological and personal journey into the Catholic Church, they remain both charitable towards and grateful for their Presbyterian background, and thus their journey into Catholicism is not so much a rejection of their Protestant past, but a fulfillment of their Christian love.
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Summary: wonderful and easy read
Review: I think one of the main reasons this book appealed to me so much is that it was personal. You see reasons for coming home to the Catholic church, yes, but what makes this different from other things is that it's personal. You see it from the point of view of two normal people. This was not a difficult book to read. I had trouble putting down. It kept my interest. I'd definitely recommend this book to anyone going through RCIA...course, I still recommend this to anyone interested in Catholicism...
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Summary: A great book for RCIA programs and non-catholics
Review: Scott and Kimberly Hahn's journey was so enlightening to one is in the process of converting to Catholicism. Dr. Hahn manages to tell a great story and educate at the same time. I learned more about Catholicsm in this book than I had in 10 RCIA sessions! A great book for non-Catholics, as they will see the Church explained in simple terms.
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Summary: A superb and inspiring read
Review: I found this book an absolutely compelling read and finished it in one day. Once I had picked it up, I could not put it down. It has left me with a deeper appreciation and love of my Catholic faith, for which I am grateful to Scott and Kimberly. I can't wait to get my hands on some of their tapes. I find the sort of Bible punching, blind faith, muscular Christianity from whence the Hahns started their journey deeply unattractive, as I suspect do many. It is the face of the Reformed faith which I believe has contributed much to the collapse of formal religion in the West. As the Irishman said when asked the way to Dublin, "If I was going to Dublin, I wouldn't have started from here." However, I made a similar journey to the Hahns forty years ago, starting from agnosticism. I have not once in those forty years regretted my decision to become a Catholic.
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Summary: A "must read" for all, especially ex-catholics
Review: This book ,written by a very devout former protestant, is about questioning what Martin Luther taught. The author found out that what Luther taught was in direct conflict with Jesus's teaching and the teaching of Paul, James and logical common sense. It should be read by all anti-catholics who are not afraid of learning the reality about Christianity. All the fundamentalist churches are bound together by one belief - the hatred of Catholicism. The author comes to the certain conclusion that Catholicism is the only true religion . Sola Fide and Sola Scriptura were merely created by Luther and contradict the Bible and historic Christianity on every single front.
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Summary: Exceptionally good, deserves 100 stars
Review: As a Catholic living the Christian life, I recognise the truth of Scott and Kimberly Hahn's struggle. It cannot be downgraded as merely the academic theology of an intellectual. Their book recounts an experience with God; a painful carrying of the Cross, filled with prayer. It is a first class presentation of two conversions, in which we learn so much about God, and the strength of Protestant fear of Christ's Church, the Catholic Church. Critics of the Hahn's conversion are outside the experience of Catholicism; therefore they cannot judge either Catholicism or the Hahns' conversion. Such can be only an academic exercise for them.I plead with the critics to face the questions faced by the Hahns, with humle prayer. This book is an exceptionally good beginning. Why can't I give it 100 stars?
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