The Faith of Abraham and the Spiritual Life

• What does "faith" really mean?• Why does God call Abraham to sacrifice Isaac?• What in the world is circumcision all about in the O.T.? Product Description Excerpt & Outline Reviews 1 hour 8 min. (1 CD / 1 DVD / MP3) What is “faith”? Is it, as many opponents of Christianity allege, just ‘make believe’ and fairy tales? Or is it, as the secular word thinks, something we believe in order to help us to ‘get by’, a kind of therapy? Or is it, as even some Christians believe, merely a kind of ‘intellectual assent’ to the truth taught by the Gospel? In this important new presentation, given for the Year of Faith (2012-2013), Dr. Brant Pitre focuses our attention on what the Bible tells us about the mystery of faith in the life of Abraham. According to the Catechism of the Catholic Church, in all of the Old Testament, it is Abraham who is the “the model” of what it means to have faith in God (CCC 144). Taking his cue from this teaching, Dr. Pitre walks you through the ups and dow