Sentences with phrase «gave eros»

«Christianity gave Eros poison to drink.

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Not exact matches

Or as Tillich has it, «The appetitus of every being to fulfil itself through union with other beings is universal...» (32) Agape, the love that gives with no thought of return; eros, the love that finds the beloved valuable, and philia, the love that shares and works for the vision of the good - none of these can be reduced to sexual desire, but all of them in different ways attest to the oneness of love, so evident in sexual union, as «that which drives everything that is towards everything else that is.»

«Eros» is the name in Greek mythology for the life - giving qualities that turned a world that was barren and lifeless into a world full of vibrant life.

But with this song we were given a view of love, of eros, to be precise, that manages to be both adult in its distance and ever - young in its heartache.

Man has no worth which gives him a claim upon the love of God, either before it is given or afterward.8 Man is brought into fellowship with God, but this is not the fellowship as in the eros way of holy men with a God to whom their holiness makes them acceptable, but it is fellowship of a forgiving God with forgiven sinners.

«The love of self is a true love; it is necessary for the permanent selfhood and splendour of our finite beauty; it is not just a part of another love: it is a co-efficient with it; the animus (eros) and the anima (agape) give each other mutual assistance and love; the essential self and the existential self together make the «I», the person.

The question remains, D'Arcy points out, «whether a human being imitates God by seeking itself and its own perfection or by going outside itself to want only God».35 There is a mystery here in the self - realizing love called Eros and the self - giving love called Agape.

As you will recall, Nygren insists that in God there is no eros (the Greek word, by the way, for what I have been calling «desire», which significantly also in Greek means «love»); in God there is only agape, which Nygren interprets to mean the love which gives without regard either to the value of the recipient or the urgency on the part of the giver to receive a returning love.

The author therefore describes all four different types, from eros, or sexual and physical love, to agape, or the love which involves complete self - giving.

As Rogers notes, monks learn this lesson directly: By giving up eros for the love of God (agape).

I would be inclined to affirm Eros with Altizer, and Thanatos with Rubenstein, without trying to give either of those gods new or divine names.

Nor does love live in the hypothalamus that gives impetus to Freud's «id» and to the eros praised by red - blooded, passionate poets.