Tomá¿ Halík

I Want You to Be

On the God of Love

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Produktbeschreibung

In his two previous books translated into English, Patience with God and Night of the Confessor, best-selling Czech author and theologian Tomá¿ Halík focused on the relationship between faith and hope. Now, in I Want You to Be, Halík examines the connection between faith and love, meditating on a statement attributed to St. Augustine-amo, volo ut sis, "I love you: I want you to be"-and its importance for contemporary Christian practice. Halík suggests that because God is not an object, love for him must be expressed through love of human beings. He calls for Christians to avoid isolating themselves from secular modernity and recommends instead that they embrace an active and loving engagement with nonbelievers through acts of servitude. At the same time, Halík critiques the drive for mere material success and suggests that love must become more than a private virtue in contemporary society. I Want You to Be considers the future of Western society, with its strong division between Christian and secular traditions, and recommends that Christians think of themselves as partners with nonbelievers. Halik's distinctive style is to present profound insights on religious themes in an accessible way to a lay audience. As in previous books, this volume links spiritual and theological/philosophical topics with a tentative diagnosis of our times. This is theology written on one's knees; Halik is as much a spiritual writer as a theologian. I Want You to Be will interest both general and scholarly readers interested in questions of secularism and Christianity in modern life.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Notre Dame Press
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. August 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 392g
• ISBN-13: 9780268100728
• ISBN-10: 0268100721
• Artikelnr.: 44945252

Autorenporträt

Tomá Halík is a Czech Roman Catholic priest, philosopher, theologian, and scholar. He is a professor of sociology at Charles University in Prague, pastor of the Academic Parish by St. Salvator Church in Prague, president of the Czech Christian Academy, and a winner of the Templeton Prize. His books, which are bestsellers in his own country, have been translated into nineteen languages and have received several literary prizes. He is the author of numerous books, including I Want You to Be: On the God of Love (University of Notre Dame Press, 2016, 2019), winner of the Catholic Press Association Book Award in Theology and Foreword Reviews' INDIES Book of the Year Award in Philosophy.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Love - Where from, and Where To
2. Waiting for the Second Word
3. Does Love Have Precedence over Faith?
4. The Remoteness of God
5. I Want You to Be
6. The Closeness of God
7. An Open Gate
8. Narcissus's Deceptive Pool
9. Is Tolerance Our Last Word?
10. Loving One's Enemies
11. Were There No Hell or Heaven
12. Love the World?
13. Stronger than Death
14. Dance of Love
Notes