Interesting that you knew Hahn. I had a college roommate (late 90s) who was an ardent Catholic and gave me one of Hahn’s books. It was interesting but not convincing by any stretch.
Among the problems with this, of course, is that it’s arrant nonsense. “The Church” (as they define it) has rarely spoken with one voice about any given text of Scripture, and what’s authoritative now may not have been authoritative in the past or remain authoritative in the future. Even the RCC’s claims about its dogma, that it’s just what all Christians have always believed, is nonsense as shown by the controversy inside the RCC every time they move to dogmatize something new.
Moving interpretation away from the Word of God and to “the Magisterium,” however that’s defined, only moves your interpretive problems around, it doesn’t eliminate them.
And the Church truly has had one voice on the most embattled doctrine of the Church today, adam’s headship over eve, but no one wants that united across EO, RC, and Protestantism preached or taught—and especially not confessed among the pagans.
A pair of young Anglicans, Paul Facey and River Devereux, recently produced a substantial video about the “ecumenical” Second Council of Nicaea. The council’s acts and canons are filled with brazen lies and scripture-twisting. One of the best/worst examples is the invention of a false distinction between προσκυνέω, “to bow down before,” and λατρεύω, “to worship.” The council claims that it is lawful to προσκυνέω man-made images, but not to λατρεύω them. The problem with that argument, which none of the council’s eminent clergymen seemed to even recognize, is that their own Old Testament in use at the time, the Greek Septuagint, translates Exodus 20:5 as, “You shall not προσκυνέω them or λατρεύω them.”
Yes, the Eastern Orthodox don’t even pretend to have an authoritative interpretation of the Bible, do they? The Roman Catholics have one Church, one Pope, which is constantly making pronouncements, but not the Orthodox. If someone wants to be told details of what he’s supposed to believe, Eastern Orthodoxy is not the heresy for him.