Until Further Titling – Week 2; Covenantal Love
It wasn’t originally about love, but that’s what today has become. Wikipedia has a shoddy version of C.S. Lewis’ The Four Loves, which is an incredible book on the topic. If you get a chance today, head over there and try to wrap your brain around the 6 types they list:
- Eros – a passionate physical and emotional love based on aesthetic enjoyment; stereotype of romantic love
- Ludus – a love that is played as a game or sport; conquest; may have multiple partners at once
- Storge – an affectionate love that slowly develops from friendship, based on similarity (kindred to Philia)
- Pragma – love that is driven by the head, not the heart; undemonstrative
- Mania – obsessive love; experience great emotional highs and lows; very possessive and often jealous lovers
- Agape – selfless altruistic love; spiritual