He may not be a "flake" as I cautiously stated. However, there are a lot of people who followed Jimmy Swagger and Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker who thought they were OK as well. I never dismiss anyone's viewpoint out of hand for (most of the time) there is some truth.
Sandyeggo... Thanks for taking the time to read and clarifying for me. I must admit I also didn't read all 82 pages. I'm just not sure what it is he's talking about when he says the Trinity is a "family" and the Holy Spirit is love.
From what I did read I didn’t take the Bob Sungenis article to be so kind to Dr. Hahn. It starts out:
”Before we get to the dialogue section, I want to introduce the topic by saying that I have decided to post these dialogues due to some nagging concerns I have had for quite a while about the biblical theology of Scott Hahn, professor at Franciscan University at Steubenville. Since my embracing of the more Traditional side of our Catholic faith, I have felt a greater urgency to reveal what I see are anti-Traditional aspects and trends in Hahn’s teaching. Although I have great respect for Hahn and his enthusiasm for the Catholic Church, there are, nevertheless, certain elements of his teaching that are adversely affecting a very wide audience and disseminating what I believe is at best a one-sided understanding of Scripture and biblical theology, and at worst, one that is erroneous….
In the end, Hahn’s biblical theology produces a myriad of interpretations never before seen in Catholic biblical studies. Not that anything “new” is automatically bad, but the sad truth is that most of these new interpretations are not explicitly supported by the Bible. Most are the result of speculation and inference about the Bible, guided by the presuppositions stemming from the biblical theology. In many cases, the inferences conflict with explicitly known biblical information.
This doesn't sound like a simple spat and is consistent in what I found in his testimony.