Published 1949
by Arcadia House in New York .
Written in English
Edition Notes
Statement | by Terry Dean [pseud.] |
Classifications | |
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LC Classifications | PZ3.Q25 Fou, PS3533.U13 Fou |
The Physical Object | |
Pagination | 255 p. ; |
Number of Pages | 255 |
ID Numbers | |
Open Library | OL6061846M |
LC Control Number | 49049120 |
OCLC/WorldCa | 6165640 |
Written by people who wish to remain anonymous. The Four Loves, written by C.S. Lewis, is about C.S. Lewis’s philosophical and theological explanation of four types of love: storge, philia, Eros, and agape. All different types are used in the bible to define different types of love and they are all greek words. In his new book, The Four Laws of Love, my friend, Jimmy Evans, describes the God-ordered principles that govern a successful marriage and shows you how to understand and follow them to achieve the marriage you’ve always desired.". In the book "The Four Loves," Lewis will take the reader on a quest to discover and explore the various types of love felt, given, and received by humans. Lewis talks about loves in terms of affection, friendship, Eros, and charity. God’s gifts of need-love for each other. But God also transforms our Need-love for one another, and it requires equal transformation. In reality we all need at times, same of us at most times, that Charity from others which, being Love Himself in them, loves the unlovable. But this, though a sort of love we need, is not the sort we want.
The chapters in this book are generally a good bit longer than our previous book (Mere Christianity), so I may well experiment with the format of these posts as I work through each chapter. Notes and Quotes. 1. Lewis thought that St. John’s statement that “God is love” would provide a clear plan for this book “‘God is love,’ says St. This book is in the public domain in Canada, and is made available to you DRM-free. You may do whatever you like with this book, but mostly we hope you will read it. Here at FadedPage and our companion site Distributed Proofreaders Canada, we pride ourselves on . Make Your Love Book Come To Life. Customize the message and put in all your special moments, inside jokes and more. The Details. Book size: " x " Premium bound glossy cover Soft cover also available. Get started now. All of this Starting at $ 95 $ . By C.S. Lewis. Introduction. The Four Loveswas Lewis’ look at some of the different loves described in Greek thought: familial or affectionate love (storge); friendship (philia); romantic love (eros); and spiritual love (agape) in the light of Christian commentary on ordinate loves. Though it is “probably impossible” to love any human being too much, we must, says Lewis, make sure we do not “love him too muchin .
C.S. Lewis wrote a wonderful book called The Four Loves on this theme. You are right; Jesus uses a variant of “agape” in the first two questions to Peter and then changes to a variant of “phileo”. I don't know what the theological suggestion there might be, but I would suspect you are right to think there is one. — pages In his classic book The Four Loves, Lewis describes the four basic kinds of human love-affection, friendship, erotic love, and the love of God. Since this is the only commercial recording of C. S. Lewis that is available today, fans of his writing will desire to add this impressive recording to . Four Love book. Read 6 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. In a culture where women are supposed to marry and breed, werewolf Anea Lo /5. The ever-popular and highly readable C.S. Lewis has done it again. This time with a book beginning with the premise God is Love and analyzing the four loves man knows well, but often understands little, Affection, Friendship, Eros and Charity, exploring along the way the threads of Need-Love and Gift-Love that run through all. It is written with a deep perception of human beings and a.