Reading Isaac’s Sacrifice as an Antiwar Parable

Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics 32 (2):3-21 (2012)
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Modern readers appalled by Abraham's unquestioning obedience to a divine command to slaughter his son on the altar of sacrifice readily and repeatedly comply with governmental calls to sacrifice their own and others' children on the battlefield. But the God who interrupts the sacrifice of Isaac awakens Abraham and modern readers from the idolatrous nightmare of a patriotism that commands and blesses the sacrificial slaughter of our children.

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10.1353/sce.2012.0028

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