#558: Eros, Agape, and Procreation (TOB 22)
Once more on "knowledge" and procreation.
The quarrel between the self-interested, egoistic, possessive form of love that the Greeks described as eros and the dis-interested, altruistic, generous form of love that the New Testament names agape is not an ancient one. Anders Nygren famously heightened the contrast between them in his wildly influential book Eros and Agape, and theologians have be…
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