In the “Exordium” and “Eulogy on Abraham,” Johannes suggests how incomprehensible Abraham’s faith is. Abraham did not question God, did not complain or weep, He did not explain himself to anyone, he simply obeyed God’s orders. The Exordium presents us with four alternative paths that Abraham could have taken, all of which might have rendered Abraham more understandable, but would make him something less than the father of faith. The eulogy asserts that there is no way we can understand Abraham, or what he did. In the book, Johannes makes a distinction between the tragic hero, who expresses the ethical, and the knight of faith, who expresses the religious in order to clarify what Abraham actually was. The tragic hero gives up everything in