Halik Tomaš, Halaik Tomaaes I Want You to Be: On the God of Love 9780268100728

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Автор: Halik Tomaš, Halaik Tomaaes
Название: I Want You to Be: On the God of Love
ISBN: 9780268100728
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
Классификация:

Христианская теология

Христанская духовность и религиозный опыт

ISBN-10: 0268100721
Обложка/Формат: Hardback
Страницы: 208
Вес: 0.39 кг.
Дата издания: 24.08.2016
Язык: English
Размер: 218 x 145 x 20
Ключевые слова: Christian theology,Christian spirituality & religious experience
Подзаголовок: On the god of love
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: In his two previous books translated into English, Patience with God and Night of the Confessor, best-selling Czech author and theologian Tomas Halik focused on the relationship between faith and hope. Now, in I Want You to Be, Halik 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. Halik 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, Halik 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. Haliks 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 ones 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.
Tomas Halik recovers the old insight of the church fathers that faith should be seen as a journey rather than a fixed dwelling. His meditation on this is full of fresh insights that renew old truths, and help us make surprising, biblical sense of our bafflement before the existential issues of faith. This is a book for our age. --Charles Taylor, emeritus, McGill University
Seldom have I read a book that prompted me to think about the mystery of Gods love in such surprising and delightful new ways. By turns profound, challenging, and unsettling, Tomas Haliks new book is also a rarity in theological and spiritual discourse in that it is beautifully written, clearly articulated, and wonderfully inviting. --James Martin, S.J., author of Jesus: A Pilgrimage
In this luminous book, Tomas Halik embodies St. Pauls description of love--as patient, as kind, as bearing and enduring all things--in providing wise and gentle accompaniment to all those, believers and nonbelievers alike, who are seekers of transcendence in our perplexing times. In his exploration of the meaning of love of God and love of ones enemy, he mines insights not only from familiar figures such as Eckhart, Kierkegaard, and Levinas, but from surprising sources including Feuerbach, Marx, and Nietzsche. I Want You to Be adds to a body of work in which Halik has responded to Charles Taylors historical-sociological-philosophical analysis of our secular age with his own penetrating theological, spiritual, and psychological diagnosis of the conditions of post-secularity. --William A. Barbieri, Catholic University of America
Tomas Halik is building a broad community of readers in Europe, between various religions, disciplines, cultures, and nations. He writes at a level higher than our best spiritual writers but does not write as an academic theologian despite the fact that he knows that kind of literature well. Haliks message of religious tolerance and understanding, against the background of European secularization, reflects a new voice for an American audience. --Richard Rohr, O.F.M., Center for Action and Contemplation

I Want You to Be: On the God of Love, Halik Tomaš, Halaik Tomaaes