#486 – How the Bible became a secular book (with Scott Hahn)

The Counsel of Trent

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🗓️ 25 August 2021

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Trent sits down with Dr. Scott Hahn to talk about his new book on sacred scripture and the Bible’s journey to being viewed in popular culture as a “secular book”.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Council of Trend Podcast, a production of Catholic answers.
0:07.0	Hey, everyone.
0:10.6	Welcome to the Council of Trend Podcast.
0:12.4	I'm here at Franciscan University of Stubanville at the Defending the Faith Conference joining
0:16.7	me, Dr. Scott Hahn, Professor of Theology.
0:19.0	We're going to talk about your new book, The Decline and Fall of Sacred Scripture.
0:23.3	I'm super excited by the book because it seems like throughout church history, everyone
0:29.2	has assumed there's a general assumption.
0:30.9	The Bible is a reliable description of salvation history.
0:34.7	Even the heretics agreed with that.
0:36.7	They just said that it supported their dogmatic, their theological conclusions, but then in
0:41.7	some point in history, things change.
0:44.9	And suddenly, the Bible goes from being presumed to be true unless facts show otherwise, to now
0:50.4	being presumed to be false unless some secular scholar rescues this.
0:55.5	Tell us a little bit more about how that happened and also just kind of how this book came
0:59.5	about.
1:00.5	Sure.
1:01.5	Well, let me start with how this book came about because the background is actually connected
1:05.1	to Catholic answers.
1:07.0	25 years ago, here in Stubanville, we had Carl Keating and he was speaking at the Defending
1:12.0	the Faith, which is where you're speaking.
1:14.7	And we invited him over to our house and down to the basement where the library is.
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