War can be understood as a modern, secular form of human sacrifice and a manifestation of sacrificial logic, particularly when viewed through the lens of ritual, symbolism and communal narratives.

The patriarchs in the Bible were the fathers of the nation of Israel: Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Through these three men, the ...

The ram (clearly an allusion to the future episode of Abraham’s sacrifice of Isaac) has that honor here. As is typical of Renaissance and Baroque art, biblical episodes are sometimes set in ...

Abraham could have resigned Isaac to God, sacrificing his son for ... and faith opens up the complexity in Abraham’s willing sacrifice of his beloved son. In Kierkegaard’s sense, one must ...

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That’s when God orders him to sacrifice his only son Isaac. Which, interestingly, mirrors God sacrificing Jesus, his only son. But Abraham takes Isaac as he is commanded and right before he ...

With this understanding, Abraham shaped his own personality to reflect these values, becoming an agent of moral welfare for ...