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  • Hardcover: 238 pages
  • Publisher: Image; 1st edition (November 8, 2005)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0385509332
  • ISBN-13: 978-0385509336
  • Product Dimensions: 5.7 x 0.9 x 8.5 inches
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5.0 out of 5 starsAwsome
By Steven R. McEvoy on June 23, 2006
Format: Hardcover
Depending on whom you talk to, Scott Hahn is either a hero or a turncoat. He was raised Presbyterian, and was even on the fast track to be president at a Presbyterian seminary when he began to doubt two protestant mainstays: `by scripture alone' and `by faith alone'. So he did what any academically trained person would do, he decided to research and went back to school to do a master's in Roman Catholic thought, eventually converting to Catholicism. Since then, he has been a prolific writer and speaker on things Catholic, and why the catholic faith is the one true valid faith.

This book is part academic treatise and part faith discovery. Hahn states in the introduction that he is writing this book for both his university students, and for the general population - readers of his many popular books on things Catholic.

Letter and Spirit is a study of how scripture is central to the mass, and how the eucharistic life is central to the word. It is a study of scripture and liturgy. The book shows a clear progression in the life of the faithful from receiving the written word to the living word in the liturgy. "Liturgy is the very place of our interpretive nearness to the ancients. In our present is our beginning." p.11 So we need the form and structure of mass to help scripture to be more meaningful to our lives. "From the beginning, the two have been united indissolubly. Scripture is for liturgy, and scripture is about liturgy." p.34 So, with only one or the other, our experience of faith would be missing.

Hahn shows us that the word is God's plan for us: "In God's plan of salvation, the Bible leads God's people to the liturgy. The written text of scripture becomes the living word of God.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsDifferent, but AMAZING
By Mark Bosse on January 25, 2006
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In the opening pages of the book, Scott warns that those familiar with his popular works such as The Lamb's Supper, Hail, Holy Queen, and Lord, Have Mercy, will find this book out of sorts with his previous works. The same went for those only familiar with his journal writings. This book does an excellent job of bridging the gap between scholastic theology and humble amateurs like myself. Though after awhile I learned to keep my dictionary readily available I was absolutely astounded with the message conveyed and connections made. This book is a true gem for anyone who wants to "get more out of" and truly participate in the Liturgy of the Word. The insight I imagine converts recieve learning the Real Prescence of Christ in the Eucharist is the best I could explain the insight Catholics will recieve reading this book. For my fellow Catholics who fully submerge themselves into the miraculousless of the Eucharist but always had trouble keeping the daydreams at bay during the Liturgy of the Word, you have found your key to triumph. I gaurantee you will not attend Mass the same way after reading this book. Enjoy, and God Bless.
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5.0 out of 5 starsIt's all about making connections -- for layman and specialist alike
By Prof. David Fagerberg on November 23, 2005
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This significant book simultaneously concerns itself with the Bible and the liturgy and covenant history and mystagogy and eschatology -- in other words, it is a book about connections. It delves into how to connect the believer with the Bible, the Bible with the liturgy, and the liturgy with the divine economy. The name for this theological ligature is 'covenant,' and Hahn shows how God's covenant reaches us even today. In accomplishing this impressive synthesis, he shows himself a comprehensive and accumulative thinker who can place recent scholarship from multiple fields at the service of specialist and layman alike.

In this book, Hahn proposes a living relationship between Scripture and liturgy in order to draw believers into full, active, and conscious participation in salvation history. The way into God's mystery is through the divine liturgy. In asserting this, Hahn does not lean into the wind of one passing prejudice or another, but rather stands upright on the tradition, saving us from both dead conservatism and errant innovation. His important contribution is to invite us to once again integrate salvation history, sacred text, and Christian ritual so that the Bible's letter will function as spirit in the heart of the liturgical mystery.
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5.0 out of 5 starsFinding the heart of the Bible in the spirit of the liturgy
By Bishop Daniel Conlon on November 17, 2005
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In "Letter and Spirit" Dr. Scott Hahn shines a bright light on what God does at Mass, especially through the proclamation of the Word. The proclamation of the Word in the Church's liturgy is something far more than reading scriptural texts. As Dr. Hahn writes, "God's Word... when it is proclaimed in the liturgy, establishes the kingdom of heaven on earth." This book helps us recover the real significance of the Church's Lectionary and the liturgy of the Word in the liturgical renewal of Vatican II. What power -- for individual believers, for the Church, for the world -- lies within the liturgical proclamation of the Word of God.
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5.0 out of 5 starsConnecting Word and Sacrament
By Labarum VINE VOICE on November 29, 2006
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Scott Hahn has been leading a double life. While writing numerous popular books on Catholicism for a mass audience and gaining a wide following, he also has published scholarly papers for Catholic theological journals. He is not the only author to have had this scholarly/popular dichotomy in their work - Anglican bishop N. T. Wright is perhaps the greatest in this regard - but until now Hahn has made no attempt to bridge the gap between the academy and the pew.

In Letter and Spirit, Hahn states at the outset that this book will be different. While steering away from an overly technical presentation, there is no doubt that he is seeking to raise the bar on the conversation he normally has with his popular audience with this discussion of one of his favorite topics: the connection between Holy Scripture and the Divine Liturgy of the Church. This theme has appeared often in his books - most notably in The Lamb's Supper - but now he devotes an entire book to an exposition of the subject that is steeped in the patristic understanding of the role of Holy Scripture and the Church's liturgy.

After an introductory chapter on the importance of the ancient witness of the Church, Hahn explains three terms that appear throughout the patristic witness and form the foundation of his exposition in the chapters to follow. The first of these is `economy' - the divine plan of God's revlation and communication of Himself to mankind. The study of God's economy differs from theology - whose subject is the innermost life within the Blessed Trinity - but each informs the other.

The second term Hahn defines is `typology' whose subject is the discernment within God's work in the Old Covenant of prefigurations to what would be accomplished in the fullness of time through Jesus Christ.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsFive Stars

I keeping buying this for my Anglo-Catholic freinds.

Published 20 days ago by Craig Slinkman
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Very interesting and easy to understand.

Published 1 month ago by SMP
4.0 out of 5 starsA great synthesis of the Scripture and the Liturgy.

Scott Hahn does a wonderful job demonstrating that The Bible is a liturgical book. The entire flow of the Old Testament is liturgical in method. Read more

Published 10 months ago by drohan00
5.0 out of 5 starsClearly explained in depth are the liturgy-to-scripture and...

Clearly explained in depth are the liturgy-to-scripture and scripture-to-liturgy connections. Reading and studying this book is reinforcing my weekly parish Bible study classes. Read more

Published 10 months ago by B. McMillan
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A very good guide in understanding the Catholic liturgy.

Published 10 months ago by Emilio Edgardo A. Quilatan
5.0 out of 5 starsExcellent.

Great book as expected!

Published 11 months ago by Jim
4.0 out of 5 starsGood biblical theology

This is the best of Hahn's books that I have read. It did a great job to prove the point that the liturgy (sacramental worship in the Church) is the natural habitat of the... Read more

Published on July 10, 2013 by Derek Rotty
5.0 out of 5 starsLiturgy by Scott Hahn

Scott brings such a great perspective to all his writings. As a Protestant minister to a Catholic scholar he is able to breakdown the most complex topics and explain them so even a... Read more

Published on January 20, 2013 by Robert McDermott
5.0 out of 5 starsUnder-rated excellent read.

Over the past 6 months, I've been reading all books in Dr. Hahn's DoubleDay series and they are all excellent and very insightful, but this particular book was very enlightening. Read more

Published on August 25, 2012 by Michael Humphrey
5.0 out of 5 starsA must read book!

One of the best books that Scott Hahn has written... and that is saying a lot!

The main contention of this book is that the first Christians came into contact with the... Read more

Published on January 11, 2012 by Brent F. Brown

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