Hahn has once again written another well-paced, right-sized and eminently digestible work focused on the linkages between the Passover feast and the Last Supper. In The Fourth Cup, Scott Hahn intertwines a study of the Last Supper and its connection to the Passover feast with his own decades-long faith journey that led him from being a self-described anti-Catholic Presbyterian minister to a member of the Catholic Church.
While the topic is complex, Hahn uses typology to connect dots between the Old and New Testaments to answer a question first posed to him by a pastor when he was still in seminary.
That question, coming in the midst of a Palm Sunday sermon, was what Jesus meant in uttering, “It is finished” during his passion. Instead of providing an answer to his congregants, the pastor said he did not have one and challenged Hahn to research that very question. That question would set Hahn on a decadeslong research project that culminates in The Fourth Cup.
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