Concept

Agape

Overview

Greco-Christian term referring to a type of love

Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).

Philosophers who discussed Agape

• Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
• Mozi
• C. S. Lewis
• William Desmond (philosopher)
• Martin D'Arcy

Related ideas

• Jesus
• God in Christianity
• Gospel
• Homer
• Judaism
• New religious movement
• New Testament
• Old Testament
• Karl Barth
• Apologetics
• Rome
• Tertullian
• Lexico
• Oxford University Press
• C. S. Lewis
• Eros (concept)
• The Four Loves

Opposing perspectives

• Misanthropy

Place in the tradition

Part of Christian existentialism.

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