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The Four Loves Kindle Edition

by C. S. Lewis (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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The revered author's classic work that examines the four types of human love: affection, friendship, erotic love, and the love of God.?

In this work Lewis examines four varieties of love, as approached from the Greek language: storge, the most basic form; philia, the rarest and perhaps most insightful; eros, passionate love; and agape, the love of God, the greatest and least selfish. ?Throughout this compassionate and reasoned study, he encourages readers to open themselves to all forms of love—the key to understanding that brings us closer to God.? "There is no safe investment. To love at all is to be vulnerable . . . draw nearer to God, not be trying to avoid the sufferings inherent in all loves, but by accepting them and offering them to Him; throwing away all defensive armor. If our hearts need to be broken, and if He chooses this as the way in which they should break, so be it."?

In Four Loves, C. S. Lewis explores love to help you

· Strengthen your interpersonal relationships

· Understand the different between needed pleasures and appreciation pleasures and need-love and gift-love

· Care for the people in your life, avoid pitfalls, and improve your relationship God

The Four Loves holds a mirror to our current society and leaves no doubt that our modern understanding of love is heavily misunderstood.

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How does love work in our daily lives?

“The human loves can be glorious images of Divine love. No less than that: but also no more.” In The Four Loves, C. S. Lewis explores the four kinds of human love in one of his most famous works of nonfiction. He identifies these kinds of love as affection, the most basic form; friendship, the rarest and perhaps most insightful; eros, passionate love; and charity, the love of God.With his characteristic warmth and lucidity, Lewis examines how love works in our lives and allows us to be closer to God.

About the Author

Clive Staples Lewis (1898–1963) was a professor at Oxford and Cambridge. An atheist until he was 30, he is remembered as a Christian apologist who expressed the great truths of his faith with penetrating logic and winsome wit. Lewis wrote more than forty books, including The Screwtape Letters, The Chronicles of Narnia, and Mere Christianity.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01EFM8NI4
Publisher ‏ : ‎ HarperOne (February 14, 2017)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ February 14, 2017
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 2636 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 191 pages

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- #9 in Christian Literature & Art (Kindle Store)
- #14 in Spiritual Gifts
- #37 in Apologetics Christian Theology

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CLIVE STAPLES LEWIS (1898-1963) was one of the intellectual giants of the twentieth century and arguably one of the most influential writers of his day. He was a fellow and tutor in English Literature at Oxford University until 1954 when he was unanimously elected to the Chair of Medieval and Renaissance English at Cambridge University, a position he held until his retirement. He wrote more than thirty books, allowing him to reach a vast audience, and his works continue to attract thousands of new readers every year. His most distinguished and popular accomplishments include Mere Christianity, Out of the Silent Planet, The Great Divorce, The Screwtape Letters, and the universally acknowledged classics, the Chronicles of Narnia. To date, the Narnia books have sold over 100 million copies and been transformed into three major motion pictures.

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ak

Excellent

Reviewed in the United States on April 18, 2024

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Excellent, just like Lewis’ other work.

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Cloyd

Clarity about the praises and pitfalls of the loves; convicting about the greatest love of all.

Reviewed in the United States on May 7, 2021

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I want to be a great lover. Who wouldn’t? But what does that mean? Which love? A harder and more important question is how to love better. Lewis’s “The Four Loves” is part guide book and part map of the territories of love. But it is far more. Lewis informs but also challenges, equips, and entices a good reader to heavenly aspirations and living. [See Paul Holmer’s “C. S. Lewis: The Shape of his Faith and Thought”] Read this book, and others like it, to grow not only your mind but also your soul, heart, and doing. To joyfully grow in love will stretch you beyond the breaking point of ME—oh, to be liberated from myself!

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M. Dave Salisbury

Excellent…

Reviewed in the United States on February 17, 2024

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… Surely a primer on basic love. Experience is a hard task master, but the descriptions of love in this primer, I hope, will help me understand this thing we call love. Written with a Christian audience in mind, the language applied well to many religious beliefs. Better, the book holds up a mirror to current society and leaves no doubt that our modern understanding of love has been demonized!

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Jeff Rice

Okay Book

Reviewed in the United States on March 1, 2024

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Subject matter is good and thought provoking but it is a hard read. Lewis talks like he is giving a lecture and with the use of British English can be hard to understand what he is driving at.

Reviewed in the United States on December 30, 2021

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This is an absolute asset that provides a handy, simple framework for understanding interpersonal relationships and their dark sides. I find that it helps me understand how I care for the people in my life, avoid pitfalls, and improve my relationships with others and God.

It really is something that helps you understand why God frames relationships as He does. It's good reading for any Christian, though this may not be as interesting to someone who does not hail from that faith persuasion.

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Laura Crockett

Making sense of love.

Reviewed in the United States on June 30, 2017

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I bought this book for a family friend because it is THE BEST philosophy on love I had ever read. So I gave her a copy because this C.S. Lewis book clears up many misconceptions we have about love.

Love is complex. The more mature one grows in this life, one finds that love is complex because the people in our lives are complex. Therefore, to love means having to adjust our feelings to the individuals we love. Lewis states the various types of love, as well as the levels of love we can have.

Lewis also makes sense of that modern form of love we call "unconditional love." However, he postulates that it doesn't mean we have to accept someone we love in that way. If a person we love is not good for us, we can keep them out of our lives, and still love them, from a distance.

I would suggest every young person read this book before they marry and have children. It's not a huge book in length, but it is gargantuan in ideas. Is anything bigger than love?

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Best Book Ever!!

Reviewed in the United States on May 31, 2023

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Best book I have ever read in my life. Changing how I see life, relationships and eternity. Definitely a must read.

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Caleb

A "Lovely" Little Book

Reviewed in the United States on March 27, 2020

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This is the work of C.S. Lewis; I don't mean to be dogmatic, but that basically makes it great. It was a splendid read that helped me to clarify the sometimes subtle differences between the "four loves." It is obvious that he devoted a great deal of thought to this short work. Simply put, this is an important, good book.

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charles egbulefu

Lovely

Reviewed in Canada on February 27, 2022

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C.S. Lewis Four Loves is a wonderful book and a must read for everyone because we are all made for love, and the better we understand it the better we practice it well to God’s glory and to our self realization in Him, our Beloved.