The Four Loves

Clive Staples Lewis

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1991 - Love - 141 pages

In this candid, wise and warmly personal book, C.S. Lewis describes the four basic kinds of human love -- affection, friendship, erotic love, and the love of God. He explores the possibilities and problems of the love between parents and children; the love of men for other men and women for women; the love of men and women for each other; and the love of God that enriches all love. Lewis also explores the questions of sex, possessiveness, jealousy, pride, false sentimentality, good and bad manners in loving, and the need for more laughter between lovers. There are risks that accompany the rewards of love, the author cautions, but he recommends taking them, since "hell is the only place outside of heaven where we can be safe from the dangers of love."--Back cover.

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THE FOUR LOVES

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The ever-popular and highly readable C.S. Lewis has "done it again." This time with a book beginning with the premise "God is Love" and analyzing the four loves man knows well, but often understands ...

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i used this book for my essay in 9th grade. I just wanna say this book was very good.

Contents

• Introduction I: 1
• Likings and Loves for the SubHuman ΙΟ: 10
• Charity: 116

About the author

C. S. (Clive Staples) Lewis (1898-1963), one of the great writers of the twentieth century, also continues to be one of our most influential Christian thinkers. A Fellow and tutor at Oxford until 1954, he spent the rest of his career as Chair of Medieval and Renaissance English at Cambridge. He wrote more than thirty books, both popular and scholarly, inlcuding The Chronicles of Narnia series, The Screwtape Letters, The Four Loves, Mere Christianity and Surprised by Joy .

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Four Loves; HBJ modern classic; Harcourt Brace modern classic; Harvest book
• Author: Clive Staples Lewis
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1991
• ISBN: 0151329168, 9780151329168
• Length: 141 pages