Lin and Huddleston - Casas (2005) conducted a study focusing
on Agape love attitudes and found males scored more highly than females on this selfless, altruistic love style.
This passage was undoubtedly spoken with reference to personal relations rather than national conflict, but in its context the emphasis
on agape love is clear.
Antinomianism is heresy that tells Christians it's OK to forget about God's law and concentrate solely
on agape love... a course which is a justification for degeneration and immoral licence, rather than promoting the true Christian liberty (i.e. freedom from sin to serve God and our fellows).
Not exact matches
Love,
agape, for one another is the only way we (humanity) will survive
on this world.
As the philosopher Roger Scruton puts it, «A society based
on agape [selfless
love] alone is all very well, but it will not reproduce itself: nor will it produce the crucial relation — that between parent and child — which is the basis
on which we can begin to understand our relation to God.
... While the Principle of Redemptive Withdrawal is focused
on the abandonment Jesus experienced as he experienced the Father's judgment
on the sin of the world, it is nevertheless grounded in the truth that the cross is the definitive expression of the self - giving, mutual indwelling
agape -
love that defines the triune God throughout eternity (p. 778).
On the other hand,
AGAPE love covers all failures and will endure until death.
Peirce's argument against determinism in «The Doctrine of Necessity Examined,» published a year earlier than his paper
on evolutionary
love, clearly lays the basis for the affirmation of radical creativity and the need for the principle of
agape (6.36 - 65).
Agape,
on the other hand, is
love expressed by an agent already fulfilled in its own terms, and it is directed not as a seeking but as a concern for the beloved.
[157] Her award - winning first book, Journeys by Heart (1988), essentially blew the work of Anders Nygren
on Agape and Eros out of the water by reversing the terms: God's
love is not agapic, but erotic.
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loves without demands
on its creatures, creatures that themselves could be creative and thus could exhibit
agape.
Then
agape hovers above the human
loves on another plane, and it will come as an utterly foreign element into the natural life of the self.
Christian ethics starts from the position that God created the world for good and that war involves great evil, and calls us to a stewardship that enjoys much convergence based
on agape as redeeming
love, but also significant divergences over the best strategies to establish peace with justice.
On Augustine's doctrine of
love the following are especially valuable: Anders Nygren,
Agape and Eros, one volume with English translation partly revised by Philip S. Watson (London: S.P.C.K., 1953); J. Burnaby, Amor Dei (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1938); Etienne Gilson, The Christian Philosophy of St. Augustine (New York: Random House, 1960).
But where Nygren attacks the synthesis by isolating
agape from eros as two utterly different conceptions of
love, I shall try to show that he focuses
on the wrong point.
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.
Time to chalk up Mother
Love on the big board, along with...
Agape!
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Repertoire (Alphabetical order by director) Du levande (You, the Living, Roy Andersson, 2007) En kärlekshistoria (A Swedish
Love Story, Roy Andersson, 1970) Sånger från andra våningen (Songs from the Second Floor, Roy Andersson, 2000) Les ordres (Michel Brault, 1974) Jagdszenen aus Niederbayern (Hunting Scenes from Bavaria, Peter Fleischman, 1969) La faille (Weak Spot, Peter Fleischman, 1975) Proverka na Dorogakh (Trial
on the Road, Aleksei German, 1971) Moy drug Ivan Lapshin (My Friend Ivan Lapshin, Aleksei German, 1984) La Verifica Incerta (Alberto Grifi & Gianfranco Baruchello, 1965) Die linkshändige frau (The Left - Handed Woman, Peter Handke, 1978) Poison (Todd Haynes, 1990) Feng gui lai de ren (Boys from Fengkuei, Hou Hsiao - hsien, 1983) Jak zyc (How to Live, Marcel Lozinski, 1981) The savage eye (Ben Maddow / Sidney Meyers / Joseph Strick, 1960) Kundskabens træ (Tree of Knowledge, Nils Malmros, 1981) Drenge (Boys, Nils Malmros, 1977) Visita ou Memórias e Confissões (Visit or Memories and Confessions, Manoel de Oliveira, 1982/2015) De ofrivilliga (Involuntary, Ruben Östlund, 2008) Minotaur (Nicolás Pereda, 2015) La parmigiana (The Girl from Parma, Antonio Pietrangeli, 1963) Chroniques turcs (Turkish Shorts, Maurice Pialat, 1963) La gueule ouverte (Mouth
Agape, Maurice Pialat, 1978) Passe ton bac d'abord (Graduate First, Maurice Pialat, 1978) La maison des bois (Maurice Pialat, 1971) Silvia Prieto (Martin Rejtman, 1999) Entrenamiento Elemental para Actores (Elementary Training for Actors, Martin Rejtman, 2009) Rapado (Martin Rejtman, 1992) Trás - os - Montes (Antonio Reis & Margarida Cordeiro, 1976) Os Verdes Anos (The Green Years, Paulo Rochas, 1963) Sagro Gra (Gianfranco Rosi, 2013) Carriage trade (Warren Sonbert, 1968) Nicht versöhnt oder Es hilft nur Gewalt wo Gewalt herrscht (Not Reconciled, Straub - Huillet, 1965) Idioterne (The Idiots, Lars von Trier, 1998) Im Lauf der Zeit (Kings of the Road, Wim Wenders, 1976) Die Angst des Tormanns beim Elfmeter (Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick, Wim Wenders, 1971) Summer in the City (Wim Wenders, 1970) Ich war neunzehn (I Was 19, Konrad Wolf, 1968) Ljudi (U Prolazu)(People (In Passing), Lordan Zafranović, 1967) Poslihe Podne (Puska)(Afternoon (The Gun), Lordan Zafranović, 1968) Crni film (Black Film, Želimir Žilnik, 1971)
All
love is real whether romantic, sexual, brotherly, parental, or based
on God's
love and sacrifice,
agape.
A number of rescue sites have stepped up to take in the tiny tail - waggers, including
Agape, the Nashville Humane Association, New Leash
on Life and Small Breed Rescue of East Tennessee (seen in the video below), who helped to house the final 10 Fidos with
loving foster families as they wait for their forever homes.
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In terms of the beliefs about
love, based
on John Alan Lee's six attitudinal styles of
love — Eros (erotic), Pragma (rational), Ludus (game play), Storge (friendship), Mania (passionate) and
Agape (altruistic)(De Andrade & Garcia, 2014, Hendrick & Hendrick, 1986)-- studies in various cultures indicate that men tend to have a predominant outgoing and adventurous style in their romantic interactions (ludus), while women possess more rational (pragma), friendly and companion (storge), intense and uncontrolled (mania) profiles than men (Hendrick & Hendrick, 1995, 2000; Sprecher & Toro - Morn, 2002).