20 Facts About Scott Hahn

Scott Walker Hahn was born on October 28,1957 and is an American Catholic theologian and Christian apologist.

Scott Hahn's lectures have been featured in multiple audio distributions through Lighthouse Catholic Media.

Scott Hahn is known for his research on Early Christianity during the Apostolic Age and various theoretical works concerning the early Church Fathers.

Scott Hahn currently teaches at the Franciscan University of Steubenville, a Catholic university in Steubenville, Ohio.

Scott Hahn has lectured at the Pontifical College Josephinum in Columbus, Ohio.

Scott Hahn is married to Kimberly Scott Hahn, who co-runs their Catholic apostolate, the St Paul Center for Biblical Theology.

Scott Hahn's dissertation is titled "Kinship by Covenant: A Biblical Theological Analysis of Covenant Types and Texts in the Old and New Testaments".

Scott Hahn's conversion began when he and his wife became convinced that contraception was contrary to God's law.

Scott Hahn was bothered that the Catholic Church was the only Christian church tradition that upheld the ancient teaching of prohibiting contraception that Protestants abandoned in the early 20th century, such as at the 1930 Lambeth Conference.

Scott Hahn continued to study various issues relating to salvation, faith, and good works, as well as the Protestant doctrine of sola scriptura.

Scott Hahn believes that Jesus and the apostles used family-based language to describe his work of salvation: God is Father, Christ is Son and the firstborn among brethren, heaven as a marriage feast, the Church is the spouse of God, Christians as children of God.

Scott Hahn writes that the Catholic Church, whose head is called "Holy Father", is the worldwide family described by the Bible and that the Protestant doctrines of sola fide and sola scriptura are not biblical because they are not found in the Bible.

Scott Hahn converted to Catholicism at Easter 1986 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Scott Hahn came to be called "Luther in reverse", from his wife's words.

Scott 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 among the Catholic laity and biblical fluency among Catholic clergy.

Scott Hahn is the founder and director of the Institute of Applied Biblical Studies.

Scott Hahn's talks have been featured in multiple audio titles distributed by Lighthouse Catholic Media.

Scott Hahn has written numerous books and is the co-editor of several volumes of the Ignatius Catholic Study Bible.

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.

Scott Hahn is married to Kimberley, and they have 6 children together.