Agape: An Unearned Love

An essay recently writ­ten for a course… C.S. Lewis regarded agape love to be the great­est of the four loves. It is the kind of love Christ taught and lived. Author Richard L. Strauss notes that, “it is a love which keeps lov­ing when its object is unre­spon­sive, unkind, unlov­able, or com­pletely unwor­thy… it gives one hun­dred per­cent and expects noth­ing in return!“1 It is an impos­si­ble love if not a reflec­tion of God’s... Read More