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The Greatest of These is Love Session 3 Eros: Romantic Love

The Greatest of These is Love Session 3 Eros: Romantic Love. The Greatest of These is Love. Eros Wikipedia defines eros as “passionate love, with sensual desire and longing” The Modern Greek word “ erotas ” means “romantic love”. The Greatest of These is Love. Eros

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The Greatest of These is Love Session 3 Eros: Romantic Love

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  1. The Greatest of These is Love Session 3 Eros: Romantic Love

  2. The Greatest of These is Love • Eros • Wikipedia defines eros as “passionate love, with sensual desire and longing” • The Modern Greek word “erotas” means “romantic love”

  3. The Greatest of These is Love • Eros • What is romantic love in our culture? • Think about romance movies. What are they normally about? What is the basic plot?

  4. The Greatest of These is Love • Romantic Love is…? • Feeling of “being in love” • Primarily feelings of passion that lead to physical expression • What brings us happiness • The “greatest good” • Arbitrary and fleeting

  5. The Greatest of These is Love Romantic Love is…? “If two people love each other, nothing else matters... Love prevents even adulterous sex from being really immoral… A man who loses everything for a love, even an illicit love, is to be both pitied and envied… For a woman…it is immoral…not to do everything in her power to make men have erotic desires whenever they look at her, and if she does not have at least one man at any given time who adores her, her life is pointless…” (from Love, Allen, 63).

  6. The Greatest of These is Love • Realistic View of Romantic Love • Eros it promotes appreciation of the beloved regardless of any pleasure that can be obtained from them. • “Without Eros sexual desire, like every other desire, is in fact about ourselves. Within Eros is about the Beloved” (Lewis, Four Loves, 95). • It is the exclusive and intense attachment between a particular man and a particular woman (Allen, Love, 87).

  7. The Greatest of These is Love • Realistic View of Romantic Love • Being “in love” is the spark that moves us toward a deeper love, the love of commitment. • “Being ‘in love’ first moved them to promise fidelity: this quieter love enables them to keep the promise. It is on this love that the engine of marriage is run: being in love was the explosion that started it.” (Lewis, Mere Christianity, 99). • Do you agree?

  8. The Greatest of These is Love • Realistic View of Romantic Love • Eros in the context of marriage – love that achieves the end to love well, always and faithfully. • “Marriage is the friend and developer of love” (Allen, Love, 76). • How does marriage - the element of commitment - develop romantic love?

  9. The Greatest of These is Love Flame Responses?

  10. The Greatest of These is Love • Flame • Raya – friendship love, soul mate, companion. • Song of Songs 4:7 • Ahava – deep affection, love of the will, more than temporary urges, emotion that leads to commitment. • Song of Songs 8:7 (agape), Proverbs 7:18 (philia, eros), Proverbs 5:19 (philia), Hosea 8:9 (agape) • Dode – sexual element, eros. • Song of Songs 1:2

  11. The Greatest of These is Love Flame “Maybe our culture has no clue what true sexuality looks like.”

  12. The Greatest of These is Love Next week: Agape

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