Abraham's binding and sacrifice of Isaac appear often in early Renaissance art in Florence, a turbulent period in which Christian theologians saw the story as both a prefigurement of Christ's ...

I am preaching this coming Sunday on that father/son relationship of Abraham ... art form in the first century and all of them tried to cut their teeth on the impossible story of the sacrifice of ...

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Abraham leading Isaac to sacrifice. Painting by Domenico Zampieri/Kimbell Art Museum The following is excerpted from Unscrolled: 54 Artists and Writers Wrestle With the Torah, edited by Roger ...

Since 1900, the Christian Century has published reporting, commentary, poetry, and essays on the role of faith in a pluralistic society.

Was God’s command for Abraham ... sacrifice his son. Instead, one could argue, he was even harming the future collective, as God promised him progeny, a future ‘universal’ “concealed in ...

Abraham’s near sacrifice of Isaac on ... Jusepe de Ribera, “Isaac and Jacob,” 1637, Museo del Prado, Madrid Keywords: old testament & art isaac John Grondelski John M. Grondelski (Ph.D ...

God asked Abraham to sacrifice his only son, Isaac, up to Him. Once God saw that Abraham was willing to do what He asked, God stopped Abraham from killing Isaac. It was only when I became an adult ...

stops the sacrifice, and versions in which Isaac runs away. Bob Dylan’s Abraham thinks God is putting him on. He isn’t, but Woody Allen’s God is: “See,” Abraham says after God chides him ...

Abraham’s silence in the story of the binding of Isaac is deafening! From a historical point of view, the story of the binding of Isaac is an attack upon child sacrifice as a form of ritual rite ...

From the back seat my kindergartener called, “Mom, why did God want Abraham to sacrifice Isaac?” “Can we discuss this later?” I asked. “I’m focusing right now on driving safely.” ...

Only much later did I realize that Abraham had two sons, Ishmael the firstborn and then Isaac. But he had banished one into the wilderness and here he is ready to sacrifice the other. When God ...