First Comes Love Finding Your Family in the Church and the Trinity

The celebrated author of The Lamb's Supper looks to the heart of the Catholic Church to answer one of life's most profound questions: What kind of love and what kind of home fulfill our deepest needs? In First Comes Love, Scott Hahn delves into the Gospels to show that family terminology-words like brother, sister, mother, father, and home-dominates Jesus' speech and the writings of His first followers, and that these very words illuminate Christianity's central ideas. As he explores this family imagery, Hahn demonstrates the ways in which the analogy of the family applies to the Catholic faith and all its practices. Through real-life examples and from the Scriptures, Hahn makes it clear that no matter what sort of family we come from-no matter what sort of "dysfunction" we have experienced-we can all find our family in the Church. Book jacket.

SCOTT HAHN, an internationally renowned Catholic lecturer and theologian, is professor of Biblical theology at the Franciscan University of Steubenville. He is the director of the Institute of Applied Biblical Studies and president of the St. Paul Center for Applied Biblical Theology. His books include A Father Who Keeps His Promises; Rome Sweet Home, coauthored with his wife, Kimberly; The Lamb's Supper; and Hail, Holy Queen. He lives in Steubenville, Ohio, with his wife and their six children.


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