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Summary: I never saw the beautiful truth of my Catholic faith before
Review: This is an amazing book. I was born and raised Catholic but it never came together until my protestant girlfriend asked me to read Rome Sweet Home. Now I see why she wants to join too.
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Summary: Pretty good
Review: When they learned of my conversion a number of my Baptist relatives were horrified. At the time I was neither willing nor able to explain to them why I chose another way. Rome Sweet Home has come in handy. Although the Hahns frequently get too gooey for my taste the book does a pretty good job of explaining why a hardcore Baptist could even think of looking into the Catholic faith.
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Summary: A great Catholic book!
Review: As a life long Catholic, I didn't think I had a need to read this book. It was given to my husband as he went through RCIA. I started to read it and couldn't put it down! Seeing our church through a converts eyes has been inspiring. I use to go through the motions as a young adult but now my faith has new meaning. This book was very helpful in renewing my passion for God and His church
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Summary: Provocative Spiritual Journey
Review: In this book a young husband and wife describe the spiritual journey that took them from evangelical Protestantism to Roman Catholicism. Their journey is deeply personal. Their conversion to Roman Catholicism is a product of a profound struggle with the message of the Bible and their evolving understanding of the Christian faith. During the course of their journey, following God's direction is their primary concern.Scott Hahn converted to Roman Catholicism before his wife Kimberly. For him, the journey is largely theological. He has a tendency to view things as black or white -- for example, Roman Catholicism is either all good or all bad. (At the beginning of his journey, Roman Catholicism is all bad; after his conversion, it is all good.) He seems to have trouble dealing with ambiguity -- for example, Roman Catholicism, like any theological system, has good points and bad points. He seems to have a preoccupation with arguing fine points of theology. In describing his opposition to Roman Catholicism in his early life, Mr. Hahn seems to think that his anti-Catholic feelings were largely based on theology. I personally suspect that most anti-Catholic feelings on the part of Protestants have less to do with theology and more to do with sociology. Prejudice is nasty business -- and we need to avoid attributing higher motives to it. As such, his presentation of his anti-Catholic feelings in his early life seems to reflect an "old Protestant" caricature of Roman Catholicism, designed to justify long-standing prejudice. For example, "old Protestants" tend to think that modern Roman Catholicism is merely an extension of medieval Catholicism, totally ignoring the impact of the Counter Reformation, various renewal movements within the Roman Catholic Church, and Vatican II. As a Lutheran, I found his views on Luther, from both a strict Calvinist and later from a Roman Catholic perspective, to be inaccurate, misleading, and caricatured, especially in regard to the doctrine of justification. Recent Lutheran-Catholic dialogues on justification would give a more satisfactory discussion of this important topic, recognizing significant agreement by Lutherans and Roman Catholics today on the doctrine of justification. I must admit that I personally identify with the Hahns' spiritual journey. I grew up in a conventional Lutheran home, was profoundly influenced by evangelical Protestantism in college, and found spiritual maturity in liturgical and sacramental Lutheranism. I consider myself a catholic, because nothing in my church's teachings differs from the teachings of Jesus, the apostles, or the tradition that developed after them. In the Roman Catholic Church today, I would question a system of ecclesiastical authority that is largely unaccountable to the church's membership, a teaching that still suppresses the full gifts of women in the life of the church, and a view that fails to recognize the diversity of opinion among Christians on ethical issues such as birth control, abortion, divorce, and homosexuality. The Hahns' book is easily read. Though simplistic at times, the Hahns' discussion of their spiritual journey gave me reason to examine my own journey, which is valuable in itself. For that reason alone, I would recommend this book.
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Summary: This book really needs 11 stars...
Review: Please read Rome Sweet Home by Scott Hahn. I help out with the RCIA at my parish, and if I had to choose one book besides the Bible and the Catechism for Evangelical/Fundamental type Protestants to read while contemplating coming into the Church, this would be the one. He was a Presbyterian minister who set out to disprove some Catholic Doctrines, and it just snowballed on him, and before you know it he discovered that he was agreeing with what he was reading about. He is almost embarassed at first but starts telling his wife about his findings bit by bit and then the book goes into this format of Scott writing a chapter and then his wife writing a chapter etc., etc.---for a while you think they are in a hopeless situation and close to divorce! I don't want to give the whole thing away. It is an easy read, very hard to put down, and gives a lot of biblical reasons for why someone who thought he disliked the Catholic Church so much could convert.
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Summary: Honest and couragous search for truth
Review: Hahn set out to prove Catholicism wrong and ends up converting after incredibly ardous study of scripture and history. His convertion came with high personal losses and pain. This book is excellent for any Catholic or curious Protest to gain insight into how the Church and Scripture are inextricably bound together and supported by one another.
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Summary: Rome Sweet Home
Review: Awesome book. Helped me to get re-excited about my Catholic faith. Also gave me some great background on defending and promoting my faith for my fallen away family members.
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Summary: Emotionally Compelling and Scriptural
Review: Rome Sweet Home details the journey that Scott and Kimberley Hahn took in coming from a reformed protestant background, as Presbyterians with theology degrees, into the Roman Catholic Church. The book is very emotionally compelling, told by Scott and Kimberley's points of view separately, as it reveals how Scott first comes to doubt his background and begins to 'defect' to Rome. He is troubled not just by this faith change, but the fact that it will mean abandoning his profession as a minister and causing much strife in his marriage. The story goes on to demonstrate the difficulties that his marriage faced as Kimberley struggled to remain a faithful wife, while dealing with resentment toward Scott for 'breaking the deal'. For her this a deep betrayal as her dreams of being a pastor's wife are dashed and she has to decide how she will submit to Scott's leadership in raising their children in the faith. Though it takes a number of years after Scott's conversion, Kimberely is eventually won over to Catholicism and she details the joy she feels are restoring her family's unity. Their story is very dramatic as it takes place amongst financial difficulties, the shunning of friends, Kimberley's struggles, and advice that she should divorce Scott and take their children with her. Anyone of faith will read this and be impressed with the integrity that both of these people treat their faith with, regardless of whether or not the reader is Catholic. No one could fail to be impressed with their dedication to the pursuit of truth and God's will. There is quite a lot of scripture sprinkled throughout this book. These scriptures are given in the context of the Hahn's personal studies, but are not presented in a study format. That is the only complaint that I have about this book. While the book does not claim to be an apology, it would have been nice if they had added an appendix that detailed each doctrinal issue that they had struggled with and the scriptures that had won them over. Still, the book is good overall and an excellent witness to one couple's faith and perserverance.
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Summary: Enthralling in it's PERSONAL and ACADEMIC tone !
Review: It's my view that you and I (the reading public) owe Scott and Kimberly Hahn a special note of gratitude for their sharing their personal conversion story with us.
In addition to the personal tone of the text there's a great deal of academic information provided. The fact that the academic is "couched" in the personal makes it all that much easier to assimilate that much more of the adademic information.
There's an occasional unique turn of a phrase that, I think, provides a two fold service. One is to make the reader STOP AND THINK and the other is to REMEMBER - the phrase. Also, I suspect that the sheer excitement of one on a spiritual pilgrimage - and the desire to share that excitement with others-prompts the unique wording.
This is the first Hahn authored book that I've read, and it very definitely won't be the last ! I've purchased several others and plan to read them all ! Perhaps ..... you might want to treat yourself, and do the same thing ?
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Summary: Rome Sweet Rome Sincere but Misguided
Review: This book is a sincere effort to explain one person's pilgramage to the "true faith". I left the "true faith" after my first 18 years of life. Why? Because I read the Bible. The Bible and the Catholic Church are on different pages. I am aways curious as to why anyone would convert to the Catholic Church. I was free from bondage and never want to go back - thanks be to God. I mean no ill will to the author. All I am saying is that you must choose the Catholic Church and its baggage or the Scriptures because they can't co-exist. Period.
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