The Four Loves by C.S. Lewis Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of The Four Loves
Book Review: Highly recommended
Summary: 5 Stars
I own nearly 1000 books, of which a few I have multiple copies of: The Bible, Sun Tzu's The Art of War, The Prince. This book I have only one copy of, but have bought at least 5 that I can recall off-hand. That's because I loan it out, and it rarely gets returned (folks always return the Bibles, for some reason...). Anyone concerned with the nature and types of love should read this book. C.S. Lewis compares and contrasts love of God, Family, Lovers, and Friends in a way that makes good sense, is easy to understand, and is practical in real life. Should be required reading for anyone that has just started a relationship of any kind, or just ended a relationship for any reason.Book Review: If You Love Anyone, Read This
Summary: 5 Stars
CS Lewis does a wonderful job defining the four Greek words for Love. I would recommend this book most highly to the man (women are less likely to make this error) who thinks he needs no friends. Lewis shows the importance of friendship to a good life.Book Review: Incredible reading, awesome to re-create, simple//profound
Summary: 5 Stars
Beginning the Intro with A newly found faith: "God is Love," says St John...We journey through these remarkable chapters with titles: "Likings and Loves for the Sub-Human; longer-AFFECTION; longest-FRIENDSHIP; EROS, shortest, yet succinctly put, CHARITY!
Early quotes/Bunyan, Coleridge, Chesterton, Kipling, St Francis, Milton, Wordsworth, then getting to William Morris who wrote the poem called "Love is Enough." One pointed-out in their briefly worded review, "It isn't!" Being the Master of Metaphor, Lewis contrasts CHARITY with gardens needing the care of tending and weeding. Either from notes or his awesome memory, he quotes judiciously many poets and writers until chapters of EROS & CHARITY. There he adds the spice of both Testaments: From giants Jacob and Esau and Isaiah to St. Luke, St. John, I Corinthians and Paul's words on Gift-love and Need-love.
Similiar to the "Weight of Glory," Lewis views his contrasting ideas, "addressed to our condition" as rivalry between the self and the human Other. Later the rivalry becomes "human Other to God." In 'oft reading these profoundly rooted ideas of Lewis, I am carried back to Seminary classrooms of John Claypool & Walter Brueggemann, remembering agreements of support in realistically based human and Divine relationships!
I noted in his first chapter "Likings and Loves...For 6 pages he employs 36 actively, moving adverbs so that his thoughts may be dramatically developed in-order to grasp and hold the reader's attention! As another review observed: This is one writer who can change profoundly my perceptions of Life thru the power of his words!
Within his total creative writing, this compacted 'dunamis' of 5 brief chapters, yet discovered in today's new-birth of C. S. Lewis, may hopefully double these 40+ reviews in quick time. From an older, yet expectant and Retired Chaplain Fred W Hood
Book Review: Interesting book, makes you think.
Summary: 5 Stars
The Four Loves by CS Lewis has taken me a while to get through but is very interesting and challenging. CS lewis is a very deep thinker.Book Review: It's the Greek, English-speaker!
Summary: 5 Stars
Koine Greek is the language of the New testament (and the Septuagint), as well as the spoken and written language of the early Church fathers and the seven great Christian Church councils.
Despite English being a rich language, full of diversity and vocabulary, many Koine words just don't translate well, or are poorly translated, and therein is the origin of much misunderstanding of Christian theology and cosmology. For instance, 'metanoia' is usually rendered as 'change of heart' but is more like 'a long dark night of the soul followed by a repentant altar call and acceptance of Justifying Grace.'
Thus it is with our English word love, which subsumes not one but FOUR words from Koine Greek: "storge" (affection), "philia" (friendship), "eros" (sexual or romantic love) and "agape" (selfless love).
THE FOUR LOVES lets you join C.S. Lewis, master theologian and Christian apologist, for a series of superb and profound essays into the nature of love and our relation with God.
LOVES is serious, deep stuff and a must-read, not just for Christians but for anyone interested in the origins and nature of Love. This book is a key addition to any serious collection of philosophy or theology and will truly change the way you look at love, the world, and your Creator!