Agape and Eros" Part I-a Study of the Christian Idea of Love, and Part II-The History of the Christian Idea of Love

by Anders Nygren, Philip S. Watson (Translator)

PARTIAL list of fundamental motifs; historical-genetic research; value judgments; heavenly eros; eros and agap; eros and caritas; initiator of fellowship with God; love-motif; theology of the cross; love toward God; gnosis and agape; the duality of the Johannine idea of agape; metaphysic off agape; unmotivated love; brotherly love; particularism; eros piety; eros and dialectic; myth of eros; acquisitive love; way to the divine; egocentric love; eros motif in Aristotle; eros motif in Neoplatonism; Alexandrian world scheme; eros in Plotinus; Plato's eeros; God is eros; transvaluation; self-love; Hellenisation of Judaism; allegorical exegesis; synthesis and reformation; nomistic modification; Gnostic way of salvation; vulgar eros; Nomos motif; Marcion; Tertullian; Irenaeus; Methodius of Olympus; Athanasius; Gregory of Nyssa; Caritas synthesis; Cupiditas; Fruit and uti; caritas and gratia; Proclus; ordo salutis of Proclus; pseudo-Dionysius; ecclesiastical hierarchy; Erigena; heavely ladders; cycle of nature; ladder of merit; ladder of speculation; ladder of mysticism; etc., etc. 764pp.

764 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1953

About the author

Anders Nygren was a Swedish Lutheran theologian and Bishop of Lund. He is best known for his two-volume work Agape and Eros.