The more we think about this story, the more profound it becomes. Through all this, Abraham's faith did not waver (Hebrews 11). Abraham obeys up to the moment of taking up the knife, when God tells him to stop and sacrifice a ram instead. Most people are familiar with the story: God tests Abraham by telling him to sacrifice his son Isaac - the same son that God had promised would found a nation. Sometimes he's right on and other times I wonder how anyone could make sense of him, and if he even understood what he was saying! In this book, Kierkegaard attempts to understand the incredible trial of Abraham's faith that is recorded in Genesis 22. This was my first foray into his work, and I'm still thinking. Kierkegaard was a Danish author whose controversial works on Christianity, philosophy, and psychology are widely studied today.
Fear and Trembling is Søren Kierkegaard's musings on Abraham and the nature of faith.
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