"Our Father's Plan" - EWTN series with Dr. Scott Hahn and Jeff Cavins on the Bible timeline

EWTN ^ | March 26, 2011

[NYer]

EWTN has filled the time slot normally assigned to Fr. Corapi's lecture series with one given by Dr. Hahn and Jeff Cavins, entitled Our Father's Plan. This series is the precursor to

Here is the background information on the series, followed by a link to the audio files, for those who do not have a tv or who prefer to get a head start.

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You could open up the Bible and start reading; but do you know where to start? Scott Hahn and Jeff Cavins will deal with this throughout the series as they discuss how to read the Bible in chronological order while telling us what the Bible is saying. It is important to know it's a book of history. You can't just open it up and start reading. It doesn't read like a novel. They will show how to read the Bible in Chronological order. Scott outlines four key theological concepts and foundation principals. They look at what we can do with it and how we can apply it. They also describe Biblical covenants and look at the six covenants that were made throughout the Bible.

So how does Cavins propose that we get a grip on the story? By reading the books that tell the story first, and letting those books provide the background, the context, against which the other books will take on meaning and significance for us that we missed before. The chart below shows the 12 periods and 14 narrative books we’ll be reading. All of the other books of the Bible fit somewhere in those periods and should be read in context with their associated narrative books. This way we begin to see the story of salvation and we begin to reclaim history. His Story, the way history is meant to be understood: as pointing beyond the events, the milestones and markers of our lives to the One for and through all things were made. Amen.

The Great Adventure’s Narrative Timeline of Scripture

12 Periods: 14 Narrative Books
Early World: Genesis (1–11)
Patriarchs: Genesis (12–50)
Egypt and Exodus: Exodus
Desert Wanderings: Numbers
Conquest and Judges: Joshua, Judges; supplemental ‐‐ Ruth
Royal Kingdom: 1 and 2 Samuel; 1 Kings (1‐11)
Divided Kingdom: 1 Kings (12‐22); 2 Kings; supplemental ‐‐ Jonah
Exile: 2 Kings (17, 23‐25); supplemental ‐‐ Daniel
Return: Ezra; Nehemiah; supplemental ‐‐ Esther
Maccabean Revolt: 1 and 2 Maccabees
Messianic Fulfillment: Luke
The Church: Acts of the Apostles

Our Father's Plan - Audio Files

[NYer]

“Our Father’s Plan” was produced in 1996 and the hosts have a decidedly younger appearance from today. However, the content material is informative and interesting. The series airs on Saturday at 10 pm est.

[Tax-chick]

Heh, I had a younger appearance in 1996, too.

[campaignPete R-CT]

TC, I suspect there’s a few who think you have a younger appearance now.

[Tax-chick]

Well, I was pregnant in 1996, and I had long hair, which makes me look kind of like an aging rock musician ...

[campaignPete R-CT]

And NY, I’m convinced it should be “younger appearance than today.” But I’ll wait for the grammar cops to make that decision.

[campaignPete R-CT]

“mira la cruz, fue por ti fue por que te amo.” - Jesus

[Tax-chick]

The Grammar PO-liceperson says that the sentence could be rewritten. For example, “Dr. Hahn and Mr. Cavins looked younger in 1996 than they look today.” The original phrasing was comparing grammatical apples to syntactical oranges, as it were; therefore, neither “different from” nor “younger than” really fits correctly into the sentence structure.

Oh, ouch. More coffee.

[Tax-chick]

Isn’t that just amazing? I learned the song just a few weeks ago, to sing at a Spanish liturgical ministers’ retreat, and it was such a spiritual gift. Martin Valverde is one of my favorite Christian musicians.

[FatherofFive]

TC, I suspect there’s a few who think you have a younger appearance now.

Evidence, please. :)

[NYer]

I’m convinced it should be “younger appearance than today.”

Thank you for the astute observation and correction. The original sentence was composed in a rush. The one rule I try never to break is that of ending a sentence with a preposition. Thank you, again.

[Jvette]

While I will miss Father Corapi’s program, I am always thrilled to see more of Scott Hahn.

I didn’t get EWTN back in 96 so it will be new to me.

[Salvation]

"We are compelled to concede to the Papists
that they have the Word of God,
that we received it from them,
and that without them
we should have no knowledge of it at all."

~ Martin Luther

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"We are compelled to concede to the Papists
that they have the Word of God,
that we received it from them,
and that without them
we should have no knowledge of it at all."

~ Martin Luther

[Biggirl]

It was just wonderful tonight being able to watch the program and really, really begining to get to KNOW God and His Sacred Word.

[smvoice]

This is very interesting. Do they teach the importance of rightly dividing God's Word?

"Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth." 2 Tim. 2:15.

It's rightly dividing God's word that makes studying God's word acceptable to God. Without rightly dividing it, we are going to stand ashamed before God. No matter how hard we work to try to study it.

[Biggirl]

The Holy Bible, the greatest gift from both God and the Church, to the world.

[Campion]

orthotomeho 1) to cut straight, to cut straight ways 1a) to proceed on straight paths, hold a straight course, equiv. to doing right 2) to make straight and smooth, to handle aright, to teach the truth directly and correctly

The KJV's not infallible. Neither is any other translation.

[smvoice]

Yes, orthotomeho.

[verdugo]

http://www.newoxfordreview.org/note.jsp?did=0105-notes-hahn

Scott Hahn, the Feminist

January 2005

In our New Oxford Note “Burn, Baby, Burn!” (Sept. 2002), we took on the highly esteemed Dr. Scott Hahn for saying outrageous and scandalous things. We noted: “Feminist theologians and their Queer cheerleaders have been campaigning for a feminine Holy Spirit for decades. How odd — how depressing, actually — to see Dr. Hahn jump on the bandwagon.”

You see, Dr. Hahn regards the Holy Spirit as feminine or female. We commented: “Now, Mary was female, and if the Holy Spirit is female or feminine, then Jesus had two mommies, and presto, ‘gay’ is good and so is ‘gay marriage.’ Dr. Hahn goes so far as to say the Holy Spirit is ‘bridal’ and that ‘Mary’s maternity is mystically one with that of…the Spirit.’ The imagery here is blatantly and scandalously lesbian.”

This stirred up a hornet’s nest in our pages, both pro and con, and not only in our letters section. In December 2002 we printed an article defending Hahn by Abraham Heck (with a reply from the Editor). Monica Miller took on Hahn in an article in our May 2003 issue. Then Edward O’Neill weighed in against Hahn in an article in our June 2004 issue. Abraham Heck responded to O’Neill in our November 2004 issue (with a reply from O’Neill). And we know that certain of Hahn’s personal friends have warned him that he’s in danger of going off the deep end.

And the controversy just doesn’t want to go away. Christopher Ferrara joined the fray against Hahn in August 2004 at RemnantNewspaper.com. An enlarged version appeared in The Remnant (Sept. 30, 2004) along with commentary by Robert Sungenis.

Ferrara covers Hahn’s female Holy Spirit, but he also discusses Hahn’s weird view of Original Sin (something lightly touched upon in O’Neill’s June 2004 NOR article). Says Ferrara: “Hahn speculates that the serpent in the Garden was actually a dragon or other monster with which Adam should have engaged in mortal combat to protect himself and his bride…. Hahn thus suggests that the original sin was not disobedience to a divine command under temptation, but rather a refusal to sacrifice his life under a death threat: [Says Hahn] ‘Knowing the serpent’s power, Adam was unwilling to lay down his own life — for the sake of his love of God, or to save the life of his beloved. That refusal to sacrifice was Adam’s original sin.’” The internal quote is from Hahn’s First Comes Love, page 70. Hahn’s next line is this: “He [Adam] committed it [the original sin] even before he had tasted the fruit, even before Eve had tasted the fruit.”

[NYer]

And what is your particular criticism of the program? Is your quoted material intended to substantiate something Dr. Hahn said in the program? What is your position on Jeff Cavins?