Reflections on God … Man … Life
I’ve been teaching a class at church on C. S. Lewis’s The Four Loves. We’ve worked our way through Affection, Friendship, and Eros. In each case, we’ve seen that God meant for these types of love to be blessings for mankind. They are never wrong in themselves with respect to what God intended for them. Yet, in each case, Lewis spends time showing how each of these loves can go wrong. Affection can develop a neediness that becomes quite selfish…. Read more »
To C. S. Lewis, Friendship is an obvious love, even if it seems to be unnecessary. He says Friendship has fallen by the wayside in modern times. Lewis believes the foundation of Friendship is not the avoidance of loneliness. Rather, it is the recognition of shared truth. In the Friendship chapter of The Four Loves, Lewis asserts, “Without Eros none of us would have been begotten and without Affection none of us would have been reared; but we can live… Read more »