Abraham

Two Cheers for Utopia

Buckley was right. We don’t immanentize the eschaton. We don’t have to. God does. He already has, two thousand years ago, at a tomb outside Jerusalem. Continue Reading »

10 Dec 2021

Rivalry and Reconciliation in Genesis

by Raymond J. de Souza

The task for the human fraternity project of Pope Francis might be best understood as re-tracing the path from Cain and Abel to Joseph and his brothers. Continue Reading »

4 Mar 2021

Missionaries for Life

by Salvatore J. Cordileone

May we bear the sacrifices we must for defending life in this world. Continue Reading »

2 Feb 2021

Trying Abraham

by Cole S. Aronson

Abraham is closest to God when, in Kierkegaard’s phrase, he goes “no farther than faith”—when he simply, merely, obeys the command. Continue Reading »

29 Nov 2019

Evangelicals are debating the historicity of Adam, but they are too timid. It is time to reject fundamentalist distortions of the Abrahamic narrative just as decisively as we have abandoned literalistic readings of Genesis 1–3. Clinging to discredited biblical accounts of Abraham as if these . . . . Continue Reading »

3 Jul 2015

Retelling Genesis

by Bette Howland

And the life of Sarah was a hundred and seven and twenty years; these were the years of the life of Sarah. And Sarah died in Kiriath-Arba—the same is Hebron—in the land of Canaan; and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her. And Abraham rose up from before his dead, and . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Dec 2003

Educating Father Abraham: The Meaning of Fatherhood

by Leon R. Kass

Abraham’s education as father and . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Dec 1994

Educating Father Abraham: The Meaning of Wife

by Leon R. Kass

It is not exactly traditional to speak about the education of Abraham. Pious tales of the patriarch regard him as a precocious monotheist even before God calls him, a man who smashed his father’s idols, a man who sprang forth fully pious and knowledgeable about the ways of God. But, in my view, a . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Nov 1994

The God of Abraham and the Enemies of “Eurocentrism”

by Jon D. Levenson

Half a century ago, on March 9, 1940, with the world collapsing into a war that was to exceed the worst nightmare, the great German novelist Thomas Mann delivered a brief radio address entitled “The Dangers Democracy.” “The streamlined, artificial anti-Semitism of our technical age,” . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Oct 1991