
This book unravels
mysteries, corrects misunderstandings, and offers thoughtful, straightforward
responses to common objections about the Catholic faith.
Bestselling author Scott Hahn, a convert to Catholicism, has experienced the
doubts that so often drive discussions about God and the Church. In the years
before his conversion, he was first a nonbeliever and then an anti-Catholic
clergyman.
In REASONS TO BELIEVE, he explains the "how and why" of the Catholic
faith—drawing from Scripture, his own struggles and those of other converts, as
well as from everyday life and even natural science. Hahn shows that reason and
revelation, nature and the supernatural, are not opposed to one another; rather
they offer complementary evidence that God exists. But He doesn't merely exist.
He is someone, and He has a personality, a personal style, that is discernible
and knowable. Hahn leads readers to see that God created the universe with a
purpose and a form—a form that can be found in the Book of Genesis and that is
there when we view the natural world through a microscope, through a telescope,
or through our contact lenses.
At the heart of the book is Hahn's examination of the ten "keys to the
kingdom"—the characteristics of the Church clearly evident in the Scriptures. As
the story of creation discloses, the world is a house that has a Father, a
palace where the king is really present. God created the cosmos to be a kingdom,
and that kingdom is the universal Church, fully revealed by Jesus Christ.