Welcome to the Council of Trend Podcast, a production of Catholic Answers.

Hey everyone, welcome to the Council of Trend Podcast.

I'm your host, Catholic Answers Apologist and Speaker, Trent Horn.

And today on the podcast, I want to do a book review.

I'm going to talk about this book, American Pope, Scott Hahn, and the Rise of Catholic

Fundamentalism by Sean Swain Martin.

So Martin is an assistant professor of religious studies at Vitterbow University in Wisconsin.

And the book appears to be based, is based on, if not identical to a dissertation he published

at the University of Dayton to receive a PhD in theology.

So I thought it was fascinating.

I saw this prospective dissertation like a year or two ago, probably a year ago.

I was searching for resources online and I came across this dissertation that was going

to be published.

And back then the dissertation was called Scott Hahn and the Rise of Catholic Fundamentalism.

And I thought, wow, I actually can't wait for this dissertation to be published because

I want to see how somebody can argue that Scott Hahn is a fundamentalist.

Like in the academic world, if not the larger world, fundamentalist is kind of a dirty

word.

It's a way to just disparage someone and to say they have nothing useful to contribute.

They're just a fundamentalist.

They don't believe in rigorous intellectual critical analysis of things.

For example, they're just a fundamentalist.

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