Christian theology has long recognized these “visitors” as the Triune God and seen in this passage one of the first allusions ...

So in a mythic kind of way we can say that Abraham recognizes God and that Abraham launches the process—biological and social and cultural—that will culminate in the people of Israel ...

What Abraham was asked to surrender points to a truth modern hearts resist: that fatherhood, like faith, demands total ...

you would do what Abraham did, 40 but now you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth which I heard from God; this is not what Abraham did. 41 You do what your father did." They said to ...

To understand Abraham properly, one needs to understand the centrality of God’s covenant with Abraham. As the Fourth Eucharistic Prayer tells us, “Again and again [God] offered a covenant to ...

Abraham was first known as Abram but when he followed God, he had his name changed. He lived with his family in Ur, believed to be in modern day Iraq. At that time, it is likely that the people of ...

Abraham was the founder of Judaism and was the first to make a covenant with God. The first part of the covenant is known as the promised land and can be found in Genesis 12:1, where Abraham is ...

God instructed Abraham to leave his home and travel to Canaan, the Promised Land. Canaan was an ancient country close to modern-day Israel. In contrast with Abraham's home, Canaan was an arid ...