There are 4 different major Love types‚ brought to us by the ancient greek. All 4 types stand for a different kind of love‚ whether it is the love we usually think of when we hear the word love or the kind of love parents have for their children. Agapé (ἀγάπη): This kind of love stands for the love a young boy might have for a young girl. It is the love we automatically think of when someone mentiones “loving someone”. It is also described as the “romantic
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Trinity Monday Theology 110 Professor Johnston 10/22/14 Vocation and Marriage In the vocation of marriage the husband is to love and serve his wife‚ and the wife is to love and serve her husband. God instituted marriage near the beginning of time in Genesis. Nowadays we can clearly see how sin has got the best of marriage by twisting its meanings and blessings that are supposed to come out of this life-long vow. Love is the basis and backbone of every marriage and its vocation. This is especially
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Can men and women be just friends without any sexual tension between them? I don’t believe so. I believe‚ both from personal experience and from several scholarly sources‚ that there is always‚ at some point‚ a sexual attraction between two people of the opposite sex who have a friendly‚ pleasant relationship. There are too many natural human instincts that drive us to be sexually attracted to a person for male-female friends to not ever experience physical attraction towards each other. From my
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viewed as one of the best books written on the subject of love as it pertains to religion. In the book‚ Lewis covers many ideas including the four types of love which include: storgé (empathetic love/affection)‚ philia love (the love between friends)‚ Eros (erotic/romantic love)‚ and Agapé (the unconditional ‘God’ love). In this book‚ Lewis also covers the differences between need and gift love; however‚ one of the most astounding statements that Lewis makes is in the storgé passage‚ specifically
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Julia Merryman CORE 110-V Lora Mendenhall Formal 3 Draft 1 November 26‚ 2012 Book of Ruth This is a love story‚ although it is not the usual love that recent fictitious novels depict. Most love stories are about two people‚ while this story is about three. It is about a more sacred and deep love that cannot be described by a word that has lost it’s meaning throughout the years. The word “love” has become an overused word that people use for everything. What I find discomforting is the
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restoring the Christian understanding of eros as a form of love. It aims to redeem the wrong notion that Christian tradition still holds the comprehension that eros is the worldly and possessive love as compared to agape‚ as the heavenly and oblative love grounded in and shaped by faith. Secondarily‚ this paper attempts to propose through phenomenological and metaphysical reflections that the very act of loving and being loved‚ which involves both agape and eros as forms of love‚ leads to the affirmation
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in oral presentation.] At the end of my speech‚ the audience will know how to approach the social issue of the failure to love adequately Central Idea: Much of our problem in the modern world is a problem of love in all its aspects - Eros‚ Libido‚ Agape‚ Philia. Introduction: [About 10% of speaking time.] I. Attention Getter: The irony with the youth of today’s generation is that even when they become romantically involved with a certain person or a certain project‚ they have the abnormal ability
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The issue regarding a homosexual’s right to serve openly in the armed forces of the United States has become quite a controversial topic over the past few months. It started with President Obama’s first State of the Union address‚ in which he pledged to repeal the current “Don’t ask‚ don’t tell” policy that was put in place in 1993 by congress under President Clinton‚ in which gays are allowed to serve in the military as long as they do not disclose their sexual orientation. Recently‚ Obama has
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Loving Your Enemies Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King‚ Jr. \I am forced to preach under something of a handicap this morning. In fact‚ I had the doctor before coming to church. And he said that it would be best for me to stay in the bed this morning. And I insisted that I would have to come to preach. So he allowed me to come out with one stipulation‚ and that is that I would not come in the pulpit until time to preach‚ and that after‚ that I would immediately go back home and get in the bed
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may also describe compassionate and affectionate actions towards other humans‚ one ’s self or animals.[3] Ancient Greeks identified four forms of love: kinship or familiarity (in Greek‚ storge)‚ friendship (philia)‚ sexual and/or romantic desire (eros)‚ and self-emptying or divine love (agape).[4][5] Modern authors have distinguished further varieties of romantic love.[6] Non-Western traditions have also distinguished variants or symbioses of these states.[7] This diversity of uses and meanings combined
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