In this tradition God has been thought of as creating
out of agape which he has for his creatures.
Thus, paradoxically, in offering itself, it generates the excellence which,
out of agape, it gives to its creature.
Not exact matches
It should be pointed
out here that Peirce's view
of the circularity
of cosmic
agape is consistent with the overarching thesis
of synechism which embraces agapasticism.
As was pointed
out a moment ago, because the
agape in question is a principle
of finite creative agents, the agapastic love
of these agents must be infected by eros.
«9 Or again, the ability to enter sympathetically into the experience
of another turns
out to be another form
of love that is close to
agape.
[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.
Nygren's exposition
of Luther as having recovered the pure motif
of agape against all synthesis with eros does bring
out the decisive aspect
of Luther's treatment
of love.
In fact, as somebody has pointed
out, Nygren's God
of sheer
agape, in the meaning he gives that word, is a moral reflection
of the untouched, unmoved, self - sufficient deity as ens realissimum — note the neuter gender — which Christian theologians have tried to join with the living, loving, caring God
of the Hebrew - Christian scriptures — and have failed.
Understanding these subtleties and the fear
of missing
out,
Agape Match times the date to make sure that the client truly wants a relationship when he / she meets that perfect fit.
Usually, after a few pages or so
of an innocuous novel or article my eyelids will get heavy and I'll knock my head back, mouth
agape, and be
out for the flight.