An example is the natural love and affection of a parent for their child. Storge – Empathy bond: Storge is liking someone through the fondness of familiarity, family members or people who relate in familiar ways that have otherwise found themselves bonded by chance.

However he swiftly happened on the insight that the natures of even these basic categorizations of love are more complicated than they at first seemed: a child's need for parental comfort is a necessity, not a selfish indulgence, while conversely parental Gift-love in excessive form can be a perversion of its own.

John's words 'God is Love', Lewis initially thought to contrast 'Need-love' (such as the love of a child for its mother) and 'Gift-love' (epitomized by God's love for humanity), to the disparagement of the former. The book was based on a set of radio talks from 1958. Lewis which explores the nature of love from a Christian and philosophical perspective through thought experiments.

If anything in it is useful to you, use it if anything is not, never give it a second thought.' -Michael Joseph Gross When he begins to describe the nature of faith, Lewis writes: 'Take it as one man's reverie, almost one man's myth. His description of Christianity here is no less forceful and opinionated than in Mere Christianity or The Problem of Pain, but it is far less anxious about its reader's response-and therefore more persuasive than any of his apologetics. Consider his reflection on Augustine's teaching that one must love only God, because only God is eternal, and all earthly love will someday pass away: Who could conceivably begin to love God on such a prudential ground-because the security (so to speak) is better? Who could even include it among the grounds for loving? Would you choose a wife or a Friend-if it comes to that, would you choose a dog-in this spirit? One must be outside the world of love, of all loves, before one thus calculates. The chapter on charity (love of God) may be the best thing Lewis ever wrote about Christianity. 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. The Four Loves summarizes four kinds of human love-affection, friendship, erotic love, and the love of God.

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