Anastasia Kaliabakos, TAC Editorial Fellow: Being a philosophy major in college allowed me the privilege of studying many different and interesting philosophers. Now, nearly a year has passed since my ...

I consider in this essay three possible interpretations of the infinitely rich story of Abraham and Isaac found in Genesis 22. Against the background of what I call "the traditional reading," I ...

Soren Kierkegaard (1813–55) is generally recognised as the first existentialist philosopher, but unlike many other existentialists, there is a strong theological vein running through his philosophy.

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. In one way or another, the explosive idea that “subjectivity is truth” is the guiding theme in Kierkegaard’s ...

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The Sacrifice of Isaac, by Caravaggio (1603). Source: Caravaggio/Wikimedia Cmmons, Public Domain According to the philosopher Søren Kierkegaard (d. 1855), a person can, deep down, lead one of three ...

Preachers have often imagined an anguished Abraham staggering toward Moriah as he leads his son to his death. But the biblical account contains no anguish, no heated arguments with Sarah (“Yahweh told ...

The Jewish High Holy Days, beginning Wednesday, are composed of Rosh Hashanah (The New Year) and Yom Kippur (The Day of Atonement). Professor Aaron Koller — the author of an engaging and relevant book ...