Kierkegaard’s lesson: Abraham as a model of faith
Stephen Hicks here discusses Kierkegaard’s interpretation of the Biblical story of Abraham’s willingness to sacrifice Isaac. This is from Part 3 of Professor Hicks’s Philosophy of Education course.
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Fixed. Thanks, John.