Scott Hahn has grabbed my heart with this one just like he did with Rome Sweet Home. A Father Who Keeps His Promises is a book for every American Catholic lay person to read. Perhaps the most important reason is that contemporary Catholics are starved from covenantal theology and most couldn't tell you the first thing about what a covenant is in the first place. But if Scott softened you up with the above book, he'll certainly help you connect that ripened sentiment with solid theology in this one.
Hahn's not afraid to dig back into some healthy Reformed Protestant resources as he surveys the whole redemptive narrative in the Old and New Testament. He also has a way of marrying these Reformed references with pure Catholic doctrine, and he has a knack for stretching the hasty Protestant stopping points to the proper Catholic ends, primarily hitting on the synthesis of the physical and the spiritual and the need for a physically revealed heavenly Church.
It's a great way to ground my summer as I begin to take some flights into abstract philosophy.
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