The Four Loves Find

The Four Loves
By:Bestsellers - Books USA Press
Published on 1960-01-01 by

Amazon.com Review The Four Loves summarizes four kinds of human love--affection, friendship, erotic love, and the love of God. Masterful without being magisterial, this book's wise, gentle, candid reflections on the virtues and dangers of love draw on sources from Jane Austen to St. Augustine. The chapter on charity (love of God) may be the best thing Lewis ever wrote about Christianity. Consider his reflection on Augustine's teaching that one must love only God, because only God is eternal, and all earthly love will someday pass away: Who could conceivably begin to love God on such a prudential ground--because the security (so to speak) is better? Who could even include it among the grounds for loving? Would you choose a wife or a Friend--if it comes to that, would you choose a dog--in this spirit? One must be outside the world of love, of all loves, before one thus calculates. His description of Christianity here is no less forceful and opinionated than in Mere Christianity or The Problem of Pain, but it is far less anxious about its reader's response--and therefore more persuasive than any of his apologetics. When he begins to describe the nature of faith, Lewis writes: |Take it as one man's reverie, almost one man's myth. If anything in it is useful to you, use it; if anything is not, never give it a second thought.| --Michael Joseph Gross Review The Four Loves summarizes four kinds of human love--affection, friendship, erotic love, and the love of God. Masterful without being magisterial, this book's wise, gentle, candid reflections on the virtues and dangers of love draw on sources from Jane Austen to St. Augustine. The chapter on charity (love of God) may be the best thing Lewis ever wrote about Christianity. Consider his reflection on Augustine's teaching that one must love only God, because only God is eternal, and all earthly love will someday pass away: Who could conceivably begin to love God on such a prudential ground--because the security (so to speak) is better? Who could even include it among the grounds for loving? Would you choose a wife or a Friend--if it comes to that, would you choose a dog--in this spirit? One must be outside the world of love, of all loves, before one thus calculates. His description of Christianity here is no less forceful and opinionated than in Mere Christianity or The Problem of Pain, but it is far less anxious about its reader's response--and therefore more persuasive than any of his apologetics. When he begins to describe the nature of faith, Lewis writes: |Take it as one man's reverie, almost one man's myth. If anything in it is useful to you, use it; if anything is not, never give it a second thought.| (Amazon.com Review - Michael Joseph Gross )

This Book was ranked at 35 by Google Books for keyword Best Sellers.

Book ID of The Four Loves's Books is JpaXCQAAQBAJ, Book which was written byBestsellers - Books USA Presshave ETAG "pO978pnIm0I"

Book which was published by since 1960-01-01 have ISBNs, ISBN 13 Code is and ISBN 10 Code is

Reading Mode in Text Status is true and Reading Mode in Image Status is false

Book which have " Pages" is Printed at BOOK under Category

This Book was rated by Raters and have average rate at ""

This eBook Maturity (Adult Book) status is NOT_MATURE

Book was written in en

eBook Version Availability Status at PDF is trueand in ePub is true

Book Preview

Don't you kind of hate how we have entered the decadent phase of Goodreads when perhaps fifty percent (or more) of the evaluations published by non-teenagers and non-romancers are now actually bare and unabashed inside their variously successful efforts at being arc, wry, meta, parodic, confessional, and/or snarky? Don't you type of wood (secretly, in the marrow of your gut's merry druthers) for the nice ol'times of Goodreads (known then as GodFearingGoodlyReading.com) when all evaluations were uniformly plainspoke Do not you kind of loathe how we have entered the decadent stage of Goodreads when possibly fifty percent (or more) of the reviews compiled by non-teenagers and non-romancers are now actually nude and unabashed within their variously powerful attempts at being posture, wry, meta, parodic, confessional, and/or snarky? Don't you sort of pine (secretly, in the marrow of one's gut's merry druthers) for the nice ol'days of Goodreads (known then as GodFearingGoodlyReading.com) when all reviews were consistently plainspoken, only practical, unpretentious, and -- especially else -- dull, boring, dull? Do not you sort of loathe when people claim'do not you think in this manner or experience this way'in an attempt to goad you equally psychologically and grammatically into accepting with them? In what of ABBA: I really do, I do, I do(, I do, I do). Well, since the interwebs is just a world in which days gone by stands shoulder-to-shoulder with today's (and with fetish porn), we can revisit the past in their inviolable presentness any time we wish. Or at the very least until this website finally tanks. Contemplate (won't you?) Matt Nieberle's overview of Macbeth in their entirety. I have destined it with huge string and drawn it here for your perusal. (Please recognize that several a sic are intended in the following reviews.) their really complex and silly! why cant we be examining like Romeo and Juliet?!?! at least that guide is excellent! There you've it. Refreshingly, not just a evaluation prepared in one of many witch's sounds or alluding to Hillary and Statement Clinton or discussing the reviewer's first period. Just a primal shout unleashed in to the dark wilderness of the cosmos.Yes, Mr. Nieberle is (probably) a teenager, but I admire his ability to strongarm the temptation to be clever or ironic. (Don't you?) He speaks the native language of the idk generation with an economy and a clarity that renders his convictions all the more emphatic. Here's MICHAEL's overview of exactly the same play. You could'know'MICHAEL; he's the'Problems Architect'only at Goodreads. (A problematic title itself in that it implies he designs problems... which might be the case, for many I know.) This book shouldn't be required reading... reading plays that that you don't want to learn is awful. Reading a play kinda sucks to start with, if it had been designed to be read, then it would have been a novel, not a play. Together with that the teach had us students see the play aloud (on person for every single character for a couple pages). None people had see the play before. None folks wanted to see it (I made the mistake of taking the'easy'english class for 6 years). The teacher picked students that looked like they weren't paying attention. All of this compounded to produce me pretty much hate reading classics for something like 10 years (granted macbeth alone wasn't the problem). I also hate iambic pentameter. Pure activism there. STOP the mandatory reading of plays. It's wrong, morally and academically. And yes it can really fuck up your GPA. There's no wasteful extravagance in this editorial... no fanfare, no fireworks, no linked photos of half-naked, oiled-up, big-bosomed starlets, no invented dialogues between mcdougal and the review-writer. It's simple and memorable. Being required to read plays is wrong, and if you require anyone, under duress, to learn a play then you definitely have sinned and are likely to hell, if you rely on hell. If not, you're going to the DMV. I'm also fed up with whatever you smug spelling snobs. You damnable fascists together with your new-fangled dictionaries and your fancy-schmancy spell check. Sometimes the passionate immediacy of an email overcomes its spelling limitations. Also, in this age when we are taught to respect each other's differences, it appears offensively egocentric and mean-spirited you may anticipate others tokowtow on your petty linguistic rules. Imaginative expression will probably cost-free by itself irrespective of how you are probably trying to be able to shackle it. That is certainly a person's cue, Aubrey. Throughout our judgment, the actual participate in Macbeth seemed to be a worste peice ever before written by Shakespeare, this also is saying considerably taking into consideration i also examine the Romeo and Juliet. Ontop of it can be previously incredible story, unlikely figures in addition to absolutly discusting set of morals, Shakespeare overtly molds Female Macbeth because true vilian in the play. Thinking about she is mearly the express with your back rounded in addition to Macbeth themselves is actually truely spending your hideous criminal offenses, including hard in addition to deception, I do not understand why it's very quick to imagine this Macbeth would probably be inclined to do good rather than wicked if only her partner have been more possitive. I think that play is actually uterally unrealistic. But these is certainly the particular ne furthermore extra involving classic e-book reviewing. Although succinct plus without drawing attention interest for you to coyness or cuteness, Jo's assessment alludes with a anger so profound that it's inexpressible. One particular imagines a handful of Signet Vintage Designs broken into to be able to sections together with pruning shears inside Jo's vicinity. I dislike this play. Because of this in which I am unable to also present you with virtually any analogies or even similes about what amount My spouse and i dislike it. A incrementally snarkier sort probably have reported one thing like...'I dispise the following engage in similar to a simile Could not occur with.' Not Jo. Your woman echoes some sort of organic, undecorated simple fact unsuitable intended for figurative language. And also there is nothing wrong with that. Once inside a fantastic even though, when you're getting neck-deep throughout dandified pomo hijinks, it is really a fantastic wallow within the hog pen you happen to be itchin'for. Thank you, Jo. I love mom and her useless holding in similes that can not strategy the bilious hate in your heart. You happen to be quarry, in addition to We are yours. Figuratively discussing, regarding course. And already here is my own evaluate: Macbeth by simply Bill Shakespeare is the foremost literary function inside the English expressions, plus anyone who disagrees is surely an asshole as well as a dumbhead.