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About the Authors
Scott Hahn
Scott Hahn is the Fr. Michael Scanlan Professor of Biblical Theology at the Franciscan University of Steubenville, where he has taught since 1990. Founder and President of the St. Paul Center, Dr. Hahn has been married to Kimberly since 1979; they have six children and twenty-three grandchildren. He is the author or editor of over fifty popular and academic books, including best-selling titles Rome Sweet Home, The Lamb’s Supper, and Hope to Die.
Jeffrey L. Morrow
Jeffrey L. Morrow, Ph.D. is Professor of Theology at Immaculate Conception Seminary School of Theology at Seton Hall University. He is also the author of Pretensions of Objectivity and Alfred Loisy and Modern Biblical Studies.
What People Are Saying
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“Modern Biblical Criticism as a Tool of Statecraft (1700-1900) is a worthy and much-needed continuation of Politicizing the Bible: The Roots of Historical Criticism and the Secularization of Scripture (1300-1700). Hahn and Morrow show in great detail how the study of Scripture has been significantly deformed by the politicizing tendencies (both intentional and unintentional) of many of the most eminent and respected biblical scholars of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries—the heyday of historical-critical scholarship.”
Benjamin Wiker
Franciscan University of Steubenville
“The story that Hahn and Morrow continue in this meticulously documented volume is complex and nuanced, but the overall picture is clear: historical criticism of the Bible is not an objective science, but grew up densely intertwined with the politics of the institutions that sponsored it, especially the European nation-state. The authors’ conclusion is neither the postmodern reduction of all truth to politics, nor the rejection of all modern biblical scholarship. It is rather an argument for interpreting the Bible within a more honest framework that recognizes its own theological commitments and does not try to hide bad theology behind a supposedly neutral and secular mask.”
William T. Cavanaugh
DePaul University
“In a masterful way Hahn and Morrow have laid bare the political and philosophical forces at work in biblical criticism in the 18th and 19th centuries. They show that there is nothing neutral about modern biblical criticism—not then and not now. . . . Hahn and Morrow show with overwhelming documentation that a secular, coercive state religion has usurped the authority of the Bible.”
Craig A. Evans
Houston Theological Seminary
“A profound paradox has emerged in contemporary biblical and theological scholarship. On the one hand, contextual/historical work is all the rage. On the other hand, no generation has known or cared less about its exegetical and theological past than does the present generation, outside of a few specialists. Morrow and Hahn invite us to question how this paradox came to be and what purposes it serves.”
Matthew Levering
Mundelein Seminary
“Modern Biblical Criticism as a Tool of Statecraft (1700-1900) is a worthy and much-needed continuation of Politicizing the Bible: The Roots of Historical Criticism and the Secularization of Scripture (1300-1700). Hahn and Morrow show in great detail how the study of Scripture has been significantly deformed by the politicizing tendencies (both intentional and unintentional) of many of the most eminent and respected biblical scholars of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries—the heyday of historical-critical scholarship.”
Benjamin Wiker
Franciscan University of Steubenville
“The story that Hahn and Morrow continue in this meticulously documented volume is complex and nuanced, but the overall picture is clear: historical criticism of the Bible is not an objective science, but grew up densely intertwined with the politics of the institutions that sponsored it, especially the European nation-state. The authors’ conclusion is neither the postmodern reduction of all truth to politics, nor the rejection of all modern biblical scholarship. It is rather an argument for interpreting the Bible within a more honest framework that recognizes its own theological commitments and does not try to hide bad theology behind a supposedly neutral and secular mask.”
William T. Cavanaugh
DePaul University
“In a masterful way Hahn and Morrow have laid bare the political and philosophical forces at work in biblical criticism in the 18th and 19th centuries. They show that there is nothing neutral about modern biblical criticism—not then and not now. . . . Hahn and Morrow show with overwhelming documentation that a secular, coercive state religion has usurped the authority of the Bible.”
Craig A. Evans
Houston Theological Seminary
“A profound paradox has emerged in contemporary biblical and theological scholarship. On the one hand, contextual/historical work is all the rage. On the other hand, no generation has known or cared less about its exegetical and theological past than does the present generation, outside of a few specialists. Morrow and Hahn invite us to question how this paradox came to be and what purposes it serves.”
Matthew Levering
Mundelein Seminary
“Modern Biblical Criticism as a Tool of Statecraft (1700-1900) is a worthy and much-needed continuation of Politicizing the Bible: The Roots of Historical Criticism and the Secularization of Scripture (1300-1700). Hahn and Morrow show in great detail how the study of Scripture has been significantly deformed by the politicizing tendencies (both intentional and unintentional) of many of the most eminent and respected biblical scholars of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries—the heyday of historical-critical scholarship.”
Benjamin Wiker
Franciscan University of Steubenville
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