The Angel of the Lord knew that Abraham feared God because he did not withhold his son, his only son, from Him. The story goes on to say that God did, indeed, “provide for Himself the lamb for a ...

autonomous person,” there’s still something of the old Abraham, say, when he’s bargaining with God about saving Sodom if ...

Judaism is God’s call to responsibility ... that Lot chose to live where he did with its attendant risks, Abraham does not say, “His safety is his responsibility, not mine.” ...

God says about Abraham, “For I have known him ... There is much more to say about these three characteristics to bolster the case that these are the right characteristics.

Abraham was now able to envision God in a new way because he himself had ... “A suffering person should not say: ‘That’s bad. That’s bad.’ Nothing God imposes on a human is bad.

Now God asks Abraham to sacrifice him ... That doesn’t change their truth even if we, like Peter, might want to say, “Never, Lord!” Because the proper response to us would be, “Get ...

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 followed the call from God to move from his homeland to travel ... Genesis 20:5-6 says, “Did he not himself say to me, ‘She is my sister’? And she herself said, ‘He is my brother.’ ...