A Father Who Keeps His Promises

Open the Bible cold and it can look like a jumble. There's a flood here and a burning bush there, with prophets shouting somewhere in the back. Scott Hahn hands you the thread that ties it together: covenant. A covenant, he explains, is not a contract. It is a sacred family bond, and in Scripture God keeps binding himself to his people as a Father.

So Hahn walks the great covenants one by one: with Adam, Noah, Abraham, Moses, David, and finally the new covenant in Christ. Each time the family grows wider. Each time the people break faith. Each time God keeps his word anyway. Told this way, salvation history stops being a list of rules and becomes a long, dramatic family saga with a very good ending.

It suits inquirers who are new to the Bible, Protestant seekers curious how Catholics read Scripture as one story, and catechists teaching salvation history. Hahn writes accessibly and with obvious affection for his subject. By the end, the Old Testament looks less like a foreign country and more like the family album.