Agape

and marriage. Joseph Campbell begins by tracing the origin of love; he explains that the modern love or the “person to person relationship” comes from the trabadours of the twelfth century. According to Campbell, there are three types of love: Eros, Agape, and Amor—the meeting of the eyes. Amor, the personal love trabadours followed, is against the church’s belief and traditions, where a male and a female are arranged to marry. This traditional marriage doesn’t involve passion of the heart.…

He goes on to say, “Theologians talk about this kind of love with the Greek word agape, which is a sort of overflowing love that seeks nothing in return. And when one develops this, you rise to the position of being able to love the person who does the evil deed, while hating the deed that the person does” (King). In short, King is persuading…

Greeks, they were just as sophisticated in the way they talked about love than what we can say about it today, and managed to recognize six different varieties: Eros meaning sexual passion, Philia meaning deep friendship, Ludus meaning playful love, Agape or love for everyone, Pragma meaning long lasting love, and Philautia meaning love of the self. Eros, named after the Greek god of fertility, and it represented the idea of sexual passion and also desire. But the Greeks didn't always think of…

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Utilitarian’s know little of love, but that does not mean they cannot sustain relationships. In C.S Lewis’s, “The Four Love’s”, he expresses, storge, philia, eros, and agape. Storge may be seen mostly as affection. This type of love does not require equality. It is the love that children have for their parents or an owner for his/her dog. Is it not true that utilitarian’s have parents and thus love them? Sadly, it is possible for someone not to love their parents; however it is not possible that…

This form of love, designated Agape by Greek philosophers was described by Martin Luther King Jr. in the aforementioned speech as “…the love that includes everybody.” and of it he said “But when we rise to agape, to Christian love, it is higher than all of this. It becomes the love of God operating in the human heart. The greatness of it is that you love every man, not…

now, it might become a minority in a few years because of how often society's views and beliefs change. Thus, in order to keep the peace amongst citizens in an environment that's regularly evolving, remaining unprejudiced and tolerant by practicing agape love is crucial, regardless of if one's own faith differs. In the sermon “Loving Your Enemies” in Strength to Love King explains, “We recognize that [a person's] hate grows out of fear, pride, ignorance, prejudice, and misunderstanding…” (45).…

mothering” from mother to daughter, and its political and patriarchal constructions. Critiques of essentialist and romanticized understanding of maternity provide similar insight/disruption to theological concerns that conflate the paradigmatic model of Agape, a self-sacrificial love, with maternity as a God-given sacred role for women as a biologically and emotionally inborn…

affection, whereas Antissa’s assertive nature and inability to cogently express her emotions is textually condemned (Lewalski, 281). This is important because it seems to be reflective of the two different kinds of female love: the developed female agape, which adheres to traditionally masculine ideals of constancy and patience. I argue that the reason Pamphilia is structurally rewarded is because she rejects the parts of herself that are…

Corinthians is actions rather than feelings; and is ultimately the behavior we should all attempt to attain and demonstrate (Guzik, 2001; Harris, 2014; Krell, 2010). Furthermore, love is given and demonstrated without any expectation of reciprocity - Agape. I chose Hinduism as my comparison religion and compared to other religions; there are similarities and differences (to be expected). To start with, Hinduism is a mono and henotheistic religion – in a nutshell, they believe in a Supreme…