Sentences with phrase «interpretations of agape»

This is the justification of Bishop Nygren's interpretation of agape in the New Testament.

Not exact matches

All of these consequences lead to the conclusion that this doctrine of agape is an unacceptable interpretation of the New Testament message.

Nygren thus uses his doctrine of the contrasting motifs of eros and agape to point to what is distinctive in the Reformation conception of love, but he treats this as the only interpretation of love which really expresses the New Testament conception.