Tomás Halík

Touch the Wounds (eBook, ePUB)

On Suffering, Trust, and Transformation
Übersetzer: Turner, Gerald

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In this masterfully written book, TomáS Halík calls upon Christians to touch the wounds of the world and to rediscover their own faith by loving and healing their neighbors.

One of the most important voices in contemporary Catholicism, TomáS Halík argues that Christians can discover the clearest vision of God not by turning away from suffering but by confronting it. Halík calls upon us to follow the apostle Thomas's example: to see the pain, suffering, and poverty of our world and to touch those wounds with faith and action. It is those expressions of love and service, Halík reveals, that restore our hope and the courage to live, allowing true holiness to manifest itself. Only face-to-face with a wounded Christ can we lay down our armor and masks, revealing our own wounds and allowing healing to begin.

Weaving together deep theological and philosophical reflections with surprising, trenchant, and even humorous commentary on the times in which we live, Halík offers a new prescription for those lost in moments of doubt, abandonment, or suffering. Rather than demanding impossible, flawless faith, we can look through our doubt to see, touch, and confront the wounds in the hearts of our neighbors and-through that wounded humanity, which the Son of God took upon himself-see God.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Notre Dame Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780268204884
• Artikelnr.: 67438044

Autorenporträt

TomáS 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

Preface to the English-language Edition
1. The Gate of the Wounded
2. Without Distance
3. Arcanum Cordis
4. A Torn Veil
5. A Dancing God
6. Worshipping the Lamb
7. Stigmata and Forgiveness
8. Knocking on the Wall
9. Bodies
10. A Little Place for Truth
11. Veronica and the Imprint of the Face
12. Wounds Transformed
13. The Last Beatitude
Notes