I retired from my secular career a year ago this month, and last fall — with all the other kids — I went back to school. In my case, I took two semesters of Biblical Hebrew, the language of the Old ...

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

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 ...

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 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.

God gave human beings freedom ... Despite the fact 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.