Resident Theologian
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My latest: on weddings, in CT
A link to my latest column for Christianity Today, called “Two Cheers for the Wedding Industrial Complex.”
Four loves follow-up
A brief follow-up to the last post about the state of the four loves in the youngest generations today.
Four loves loss
More than sixty year ago C. S. Lewis wrote a book called The Four Loves. Ever since, his framework has proven a reliable and popular paradigm for thinking about different aspects or modes of love. The terms he uses are storge, eros, philia, and agape; we might loosely translate these as kinship, romance, friendship, and self-giving to and for the other. They denote the love that obtains between members of a family, between spouses in a marriage, between close friends, and between humans and God.