Through sacrifice and unwavering faith, Abraham’s covenant with God prefigures the greater fulfillment in Christ, as depicted ...

A Flemish Baroque painting reanimates Genesis 16–21 and helps us reflect on trust, covenant and the consequences of human ...

Fulfilling the commandment of circumcision means taking the ordinary body of a human being and transforming it into something ...

For the believer, the answer is simple: God commanded Abraham, and ever since circumcision has been the mark of the covenant. For the academic historian, the answer is more complicated ...

God establishes a covenant with Noah, Abraham, Moses, David and finally Jesus. In these succeeding covenants we see God expanding his covenant family until there is a one, holy, catholic ...

As a Rabbi I am faithful to the covenant that God made with Abraham – the first Islamic Hebrew (Genesis 14:13), and I submit to the commandments that God made with the people of Israel at Mount ...

Most secularists believe that these religious apocalyptic visions of the future are absurd, although many secularists themselves fervently believe that artificial intelligence, run away genetic ...

For the second Sunday of Lent, the readings remind us that God has renewed the covenant repeatedly throughout history.

When we pass God’s test (although – again – only by the grace of God), God is pleased with us, as He was with Abraham. God said: “now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not ...

The term covenant refers to a promise or agreement which is made between two people or groups of people. Judasim teaches that covenants were made between God and Noah, Abraham and Moses.