Even at a one hundred seventy year distance from Kierkegaard, we recoil at this story and ask the questions: What kind of God would command such a thing? What kind of father would obey? Kierkegaard examines the Abraham and Isaac story every which way, trying to make sense of it. And four times he depicts a father raising the knife over his son. Four times he describes Abraham holding the hand of his trusting little boy, guiding Isaac up the mountain. Four times he imagines Abraham tenderly kissing Sarah goodbye. Kierkegaard begins with four different depictions of the same story, the very story we read from Genesis this morning, the story we call “The Binding of Isaac.” Four times, Kierkegaard takes us through Abraham’s excruciating journey to Mt.
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