Through sacrifice and unwavering faith, Abraham’s covenant with God prefigures the greater fulfillment in Christ, as depicted ...
Fulfilling the commandment of circumcision means taking the ordinary body of a human being and transforming it into something ...
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 ...
For the second Sunday of Lent, the readings remind us that God has renewed the covenant repeatedly throughout history.
In the Church, we are made children of the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob -- the God who makes known His name and His ways to Moses in today's First Reading. Mindful of His covenant with Abra ...
became the first ongoing monotheistic community when God rescued them from Egyptian oppression and made an enduring covenant with them at Mount Sinai. Prophet Abraham-the-Hebrew was not born a ...
After preaching on the Transfiguration of Christ on Mount Tabor in Luke's Gospel, the Rev. Daniel Kingsley shares how ...
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 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.
As related in midrash, Abraham was a man who, through his own reason, determined that there was one God and challenged ...