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I Want You to Be: On the God of Love
Category: Books > Spirituality > Spirituality Books
Author/Artist: TOMAS HALIK
ISBN / ID: 9780268100735
Publisher: University of Notre Dame
Binding: PAPERBACK
Price: AU$39.95
  
Description: 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, he 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 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.

I Want You to Be will interest both general and scholarly readers interested in secularism and Christianity in modern life.
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