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The Four Loves – Part 1

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This is the first podcast on The Four Loves by C. S. Lewis. In this short but thoughtful work Jack analyzes the four types of love that can exist between persons. The Four LovesHe identifies them by their Greek names as follows:

  • Storge – affection
  • Philia – Friendship
  • Eros – the love for a particular other (distinct from sexuality)
  • Agape – the love of God

In addition, he includes a description of both our needs and pleasures, and discussions of the love of nature and the love of country.

In general, his approach is to identify what is good about our loves as well as what can go bad.  No one love is better than another, and all of them need to be controlled by the Love of God to assume their proper in our hearts.

This podcast covers the material on our needs and pleasures, the loves of nature and of our country, and a review of the first type of love, Storge (affection).

The Four Loves - Part 1 [ 29:08 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download




The Great Divorce

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Have you ever wondered about questions like these?

– Is there a real Heaven and a real Hell?

– If so, what are they like?

– If they exist why would a loving God send people to Hell?

If so, then this podcast will be especially interesting to you.

Today’s show covers The Great Divorce by C. S. Lewis.  This is a relatively small book and can be read in 3 or 4 hours, but is well worth your time.

It deals with the ideas of Heaven and Hell and why people end up in Hell.  It does this through a fictional story of a bus ride from Hell to Heaven.  According to this book, anyone in Hell can take this bus ride to Heaven any time they want.  Once in Heaven, they can stay there IF they will give up what put them in Hell in the first place.

Heaven is a more more substantial, much more “real” place then Hell, and the people from Hell appear as shadows or ghosts.  They are met by Angels who try to persuade them to stay in Heaven, and most of the book consists of a record of the conversations that occur between individual ghosts and the Angels that meet them.

This podcast looks at three of the conversations, the ones that deal with lust, mother love, and intellectual pride, and explains how these can keep someone in Hell.

I hope you enjoy the show.

The Great Divorce [ 38:14 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

 

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