A note from Scott Hahn
A Life Dedicated to Scripture
We are called to be trusting children of God and of the Church, our mother. My studies have led me to realize that we are privileged to read the Sacred Page within an unfathomable community: the communion of saints, the voices of Catholic Tradition, the great cloud of witnesses from all of history. Our guide is the Holy Spirit, working through the Church's Magisterium.
Living out your faith
Most importantly, we have the great gift to read the Bible in its natural and supernatural habitat: the liturgy. The Bible gives us both the content and context of the liturgy—even as the liturgy provides our context for understanding the Scriptures. If we read the Bible as it was written, we'll read it from the heart of the Church. It is the heart of Jesus.
What that means for You
From the moment of your baptism, the Lord has called you to be his disciple – to know, love, and serve him. He also calls you to strengthen your brothers and sisters in Christ, all to the praise and glory of his name! At the St. Paul Center, we believe maturing in Christ starts with knowing and understanding Scripture. Our goal is to form a new generation of biblically fluent priests and biblically literate lay people. Imagine the Church being built up by priests and lay leaders on fire with a love for Sacred Scripture.
Endorsements
"Scott Hahn is to our time what Newman was to his, and Chesterton was to his. He has been a singular catalyst for conversion. I believe the Center and the Ignatius Catholic Study Bible will carry that work forward for years after you and I have gone to our judgment."
Mike Aquilina
Author & Speaker
"Collaborating with Dr. Scott Hahn has been one of the particular joys of my professional life. When I discussed the Bible with him, I always had the sense that I was in dialogue with a real master."
Bishop Robert Barron
Bishop of the Diocese of Winona-Rochester and Founder of Word on Fire Catholic Ministries
“Dr. Hahn has given us a crisp, clear, and compelling look at the very essence of Catholic life, the sacraments. Simply put, Scott believes the sacraments really do work. And he believes that the sacraments are God’s work for us, not our work for God.”
Timothy Cardinal Dolan
Archbishop of New York
"Dr. Hahn and the St.Paul Center are fundamentally changing how Catholics engage with Scripture & have made the Bible so much more approachable for Catholics in countless ways."
Erich Kerekes
CTO and Co-Founder of Hallow
"Scott Hahn has helped untold numbers of Catholic fall in love with the Word of God by helping them see not just the big picture of scripture but how it’s message is just as relevant for them as it was for those who first read those sacred pages."
Trent Horn
Staff Apologist for Catholic Answers
"Dr. Hahn showed me that a theologian was one who was deeply immersed in Sacred Scripture; and to be deeply immersed in Sacred Scripture meant more than just grammar and syntax—it meant entering the deepest worlds of Catholic Theology and Philosophy."
Dr. Andrew Swafford
Professor of Theology at Benedictine College, Catholic Speaker, Ignatius Catholic Study Bible Contributor
Scott Hahn Biography
Dr. Scott Hahn was born in 1957 and has been married to Kimberly Hahn since 1979. He and Kimberly have six children (one of which is a priest and another a seminarian for the Diocese of Steubenville) and 23 grandchildren.
Dr. Hahn received his Bachelor of Arts degree with a triple-major in Theology, Philosophy and Economics from Grove City College, PA, in 1979, his Masters of Divinity from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in 1982, and his Ph.D. in Biblical Theology from Marquette University in 1995. Dr. Hahn has ten years of youth and pastoral ministry experience in Protestant congregations (in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Massachusetts, Kansas, and Virginia) and is a former Professor of Theology at Chesapeake Theological Seminary. He was ordained in 1982 at Trinity Presbyterian Church in Fairfax, VA, but resigned his ministry to enter the Catholic Church at the Easter Vigil in 1986.
He began teaching at Franciscan University of Steubenville in 1990, where he now holds the Father Michael Scanlan, T.O.R., Chair of Biblical Theology and the New Evangelization. From 2005 to 2011, he held the Pope Benedict XVI Chair of Biblical Theology and Liturgical Proclamation at St. Vincent Seminary in Latrobe, PA. From 2014 to 2015, he served as the McEssy Distinguished Visiting Professor of Biblical Theology and the New Evangelization at the University of St. Mary of the Lake in Mundelein, IL.
An exceptionally popular speaker and teacher, Dr. Hahn has spoken nationally and internationally on a wide variety of topics related to Scripture and Catholic theology. His talks have been effective in helping thousands embrace the faith. In 2001, Scott Hahn founded the Saint Paul Center for Biblical Theology with the mission of helping Catholics read Scripture from the heart of the Church.
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OUR MISSION
Reading the Bible from the Heart of the Church
The St. Paul Center is a nonprofit research and educational institute that promotes life-transforming Scripture study from the heart of the Church. We want to raise up a new generation of priests who are fluent in the Bible and lay people who are biblically literate. For us, this means equipping them to enter into the heart of the living Word of God and to be transformed and renewed by this encounter.
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