Negotiating challenges and change in Christian marriage In the previous four articles, I argued that faithful love is best understood as a lifelong practice in which affection, friendship, desire and altruism are shaped by compatibility, commitment, companionship and character. I suggested that Christian marriage embodies this love as adaptive fidelity: a covenant in which two persons …
The Art of Faithful Love (Part 2)
What qualities enable love to flourish? In Part 1, I outlined C. S. Lewis’s idea of four kinds of human love, drawing on the wisdom of classical antiquity. I suggested that each one becomes genuinely life-giving as it is received as a finite good, ethically formed by mutuality and respect, and transformed by divine love …
The Art of Faithful Love (Part 1)
What forms does human love take? C. S. Lewis and The Four Loves Love. It’s almost certainly the most frequently invoked human emotion. It’s the subject of thousands of stories and songs. At the same time, it’s among the least precisely differentiated concepts in ordinary discourse. The same term is used for spouses, children, friends, communities, …
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