I had occasion to revisit the story of Abraham's near-sacrifice of his son Isaac the other day, and I didn't mind because the story is so haunting and so provocative.
Why did Abraham agree to this act?
Why was he so uncommunicative about it to his son and servant?
Did Isaac resist the final binding on the place of sacrifice?
Did Abraham ever have a doubt?
Why does God stay his hand only at the last second?
Did God have a doubt?
What is the lesson? Does the lesson belong to the realm of faith as the absoluteness of abandonment to the will of the Other? Or does the lesson belong to the realm of morals and the awakening of conscience to the true voice of God, who ultimately forbids barbarism and demands a prudent, orderly, civil and humane faith?
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