President & Founder
“I am grateful and excited for this new apostolate, Eternal Christendom. Its vision is solidly and sorely needed in our time. Joshua Charles is a good friend and a deep thinker whose work is wide-ranging and substantive. We can expect a lot of good fruit from this endeavor, and I’m honored to support it.”
Biography
Dr. Scott Hahn was born in 1957 and has been married to Kimberly Hahn since 1979. He and Kimberly have six children (one of which is a priest and another a seminarian for the Diocese of Steubenville) and 23 grandchildren.
Dr. Hahn received his Bachelor of Arts degree with a triple-major in Theology, Philosophy and Economics from Grove City College, PA, in 1979, his Masters of Divinity from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in 1982, and his Ph.D. in Biblical Theology from Marquette University in 1995. Dr. Hahn has ten years of youth and pastoral ministry experience in Protestant congregations (in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Massachusetts, Kansas, and Virginia) and is a former Professor of Theology at Chesapeake Theological Seminary. He was ordained in 1982 at Trinity Presbyterian Church in Fairfax, VA, but resigned his ministry to enter the Catholic Church at the Easter Vigil in 1986.
He began teaching at Franciscan University of Steubenville in 1990, where he now holds the Father Michael Scanlan, T.O.R., Chair of Biblical Theology and the New Evangelization. From 2005 to 2011, he held the Pope Benedict XVI Chair of Biblical Theology and Liturgical Proclamation at St. Vincent Seminary in Latrobe, PA. From 2014 to 2015, he served as the McEssy Distinguished Visiting Professor of Biblical Theology and the New Evangelization at the University of St. Mary of the Lake in Mundelein, IL.
An exceptionally popular speaker and teacher, Dr. Hahn has spoken nationally and internationally on a wide variety of topics related to Scripture and Catholic theology. His talks have been effective in helping thousands embrace the faith. In 2001, Scott Hahn founded the Saint Paul Center for Biblical Theology with the mission of helping Catholics read Scripture from the heart of the Church.
