This is the opening section in Søren Kierkegaard’s “Fear and Trembling”, which I do not, of course, endorse as a whole. As far as I can tell — and feel free to skip it — this piece seems valid (aside from specific errors like comparing Yirmiyahu to Avraham). Also, he ignores the moral dimension by equating “moral” victories for mankind (?!) with the religious act of obeying God.
The interesting thing for me is that, despite Kierkegaard’s making of religion into a strictly-private, individual affair, impossible to be made accessible (תנ”ך בגובה העיניים and so on), in the case of Avraham, at least, this may not be in dispute, since the Avos really were archetypes who prefigure the entire Jewish nation.
Bottom line, even non-Jews, and even idol-worshippers, can get something from the Torah.
And so, with that disclaimer of Cursedian Existentialism etc., here is one man’s praise of Akeidas Yitzchak: