Agape cs lewis5/20/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() He first explores the idea of liking (see this video and you’ll understand), fondness for pets and a love of nature and country. After separating love into two categories-Need-love, where something is received Gift-love, its altruistic opposite-Lewis chooses not to begin at the top of the mountain by exploring the idea of the love of God, but starts at the base and works upwards. Lewis explores the topic of love by looking at the four ancient Greek words for love. I am doing the same lecture again this Fall, so I thought it would be a great opportunity to finally read this famous book. ![]() In a lecture for my “ Myths of Love, Sex and Marriage” class in Fall 2010 I kept stumbling across references to this book in footnotes and weblinks. The Four Loves is also a book that I haven’t even pretended to read before. His Allegory of Love (1936) was the most popular of his work in literary criticism and was a kind of break-out book for him. The Four Loves is one of Lewis’ last Christian book and of his popular nonfiction, the one closest to his field of study. ![]()
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