I Want You to Be

In his two previous books translated into English, Patience with God and Night of the Confessor , best-selling Czech author and theologian Tomáš 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