ABSTRACT
Although sacrifice may refer to the slaughter of an animal as an offering to a deity, it is more broadly construed as submission to God. The primary example of sacrifice in Christianity is Christ’s self-offering in the crucifixion for propitiation of human sin.1 The Danish Offer is derived from the Old Danish ofær and Old Norse offr via the Middle Low German and Old Saxon offer.2 The lexical meaning of ofre in Danish is to give up selflessly or to abandon in favor of something else.3 The concept of sacrifice preoccupies Kierkegaard’s thought, appearing primarily in Fear and Trembling, Works of Love, Practice in Christianity, and Christian Discourses.
