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Visit our show notes at St. Paul Center.com forward slash road to learn more. I'm Scott Hahn, and I've got a special episode for you today.

It revolves around a book that was out of print for many, many years.

It's the theological equivalent to, I like to say, Haley's Comet, which you recall doesn't

come around except for every 75 or 76 years.

I think the last time Haley's Comet came around was back in 1986, shortly before I was

received into the Catholic Church.

Around that same time, I came across a book that had a big impact upon me, and I'd like to

share it with you because it's just coming back in print from Emmaus Road. The title of it is

Philippe de la Trinette. What is Redemption? I'm excited because we got to reprint this book

through Emmaus Road, the publishing arm of the St. Paul Center.

I'm doubly excited because I got to write the forward to the book where I have a chance to explain why this book is so important and what a momentous effect that it had on me when I was still a Protestant, asking myself the question, why is it that Christ's

suffering saves us? There was one version that I used to embrace as a Protestant, which has

influenced many Catholics. It's called penal substitution, that God the Father took out his wrath

on the sun for about three hours there on Good Friday.

That is a common view, but it's a misunderstanding.

It's a distortion.

It's a counterfeit gospel.

It was reading Philippe de la Trinette's book, What Is Redemption, that cleared it up for me.

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