The Four Loves

The four Greek words for our word "love" are *storge* (affection), *philia* (friendship), *eros* (sexual or romantic love) and *agape* (selfless love, charity). These four categories form the basis of C S Lewis' famous work on the nature of love, which seeks to show how the first three, which come naturally to humans, are fulfilled in the fourth - *Agape*, the Gift-love of God. Without the sweetening grace of this supernatural love, divine in its source and expression, the natural loves become distorted and even dangerous.  
  
*"Masterful without being magisterial, this book's wise, gentle, candid reflections on the virtues and dangers of love draw on sources from Jane Austen to St. Augustine. The chapter on charity (love of God) may be the best thing Lewis ever wrote about Christianity."*  
- Michael Joseph Gross  
  
176 pages  
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C.S. Lewis's famous work on the nature of love divides love into four categories: Affection, Friendship, Eros and Charity. The first three are loves which come naturally to the human race. Charity, however, the Gift-love of God, is divine in its source and expression, and without the sweetening grace of this supernatural love, the natural loves become distorted and even dangerous.Read less