Letter and Spirit
From Written Text to Living Word in the Liturgy

This is definitely quite a bit more dense/academic and less accessible than I am used to from Hahn's writing.......more

Very tough for me to read as an ordinary lay person. I enjoy Scott Hahn because he is such a great teacher but this was a little over my head. I had to look up words that were very foreign to me. But I did learn a lot.......more

Letter and Spirit, a sequel to The Lamb's Supper: The Mass as Heaven on Earth, is a bit more scholarly in nature than the first book in Hahn's trilogy, but it is accessible to lay readers if they're reasonably well read or well catechized in the Catholic faith. Unlike The Lamb's Supper, Letter and S......more

In the introduction Dr. Hahn said that this book was not written in the style of his popular books like the Lamb's Supper, nor was written as an academic book but that he was trying to write it for both audiences. In my mind the book is much more for the academic rather than the lay. He defines some......more

Enjoyed this book immensely, although I must admit that Mr. Hahn is operating at a much higher level than myself and I had difficulty following the book at times. The bottom line take away is that scripture never existed as an end to itself; instead, scripture has historically existed to be used in......more