Evangelizing the Culture Like St. Paul

The Road to Emmaus with Scott Hahn

Scott Hahn

Religion & Spirituality:christianity, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 10 November 2021

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

How do we share the Gospel with unbelievers? St. Paul’s Areopagus Sermon in Acts 17 is a powerful example of how we can engage the culture. Learn More Discover the deeper meanings of the Scriptures in John Bergsma’s The Word of the Lord: Reflections on the Sunday Mass Readings for Year C. In order to share the Gospel with skeptics, we need to engage the language of the culture. Read more in this blog. Find straightforward and compassionate answers to difficult questions in Fr. Carter Griffin’s Cross-Examined: Catholic Responses to the World’s Questions.

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0:00.0	This is Scott Han and I want to welcome you to the Road to Amaeus, a podcast from the St Paul Center. Get the most out of mass by truly understanding the readings. In the word of the
0:19.9	Lord's series, John Bergsema makes the scriptures come to life.
0:23.0	Get your copy of Reflections for Cycle C this new liturgical year.
0:28.0	Visit our show note at St Paul Center.com,
0:31.0	forward slash road to learn more. Hey, this is Scott Hahn, and I want to welcome you to the Road to a Mayus, a
0:46.7	podcast from the St Paul Center. Today we've got a special treat. I'm going to be
0:52.4	reflecting upon a passage in the book of
0:54.8	Acts chapter 17 famously known as Paul's Ariopagus address. But I'd like to
1:01.0	share with you something that I wrote last year as an introduction to a book that was published in 2020 by Ave Maria Press.
1:11.0	Ave Maria was privileged and excited to be the publishers of eight different talks that had been discovered in Poland,
1:20.0	catachetical lectures that had been given by Archbishop Karl Voitiva
1:25.3	shortly before he moved to Rome to become Pope John Paul the second.
1:30.0	These catachetical lectures that he gave on acts 17 and Paul's sermon at the Ariopagus in Athens are amazing.
1:40.0	And I was asked to write an introduction as a kind of background.
1:43.7	And so I was able to share something that I found in working on the Ignatious Catholic
1:50.1	Study Bible several years ago. And I'd like to provide a little bit of background from the essay for what
1:58.7	Paul is doing in Acts 17. The article that I published as an introduction to that book is entitled
2:09.0	an altar and a poem,
2:11.0	whereas the book itself you will find is entitled,
2:15.0	Teaching for an Unbelieving World,
2:18.6	Newly Discovered Reflections on Paul's Sermon
2:21.3	at the Aeropagus by Archbishop Carl Voitiva.
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