Due to discussing love in context to the Greatest Commandment as well as marriage and other relationship, here’s the best explanation of agape, eros, storge and philia I’ve ever found. It’s from The New Testament Words by William Barclay. This is probably some of the most worthwhile four pages you’ll ever read!
Note: Part 1 (cut off) "The noun eros and the verb eran are mainly used for love between the sexes. They can be used for such things as the passion of ambition and the intensity of patriotism; but characteristically they are the words for physical love. … Christianity could hardly have annexed these words [eros and eran] for its own uses; and they do not appear in the NT at all."
This entry was originally published at Interconnectedness by Mikhail (Misha) Lomize
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