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Theme Study: Living a Life of Love
It has become a well-known truth that the Greek culture (unlike English) had a few words for love—stergo, phileo, eros, and agape. Since eros—romantic love is not found in the New Testament, our study has mainly to do with the other three and, most centrally, agape.
The verb stergo means to feel love or affection such as the love of parents for their children. The verb form does not appear in the New Testament. The root does appear in a couple combination words: astorgos—without affection or unloving (Rom 1:31; II Tim 3:3) and philostorgos—brotherly love (Rom 12:10). . .
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Arthur W. Lindsley
Senior Fellow for Apologetics, CSLI Arthur W. Lindsley is the Vice President of Theological Initiatives at the Institute for Faith, Works, & Economics. He has served at the C.S. Lewis Institute since 1987 both as President until 1998 and currently as Senior Fellows for Apologetics. Formerly, he was director of Educational Ministries at the Ligonier Valley Study Center, and Staff Specialist with the Coalition for Christian Outreach. He is the author of C.S. Lewis's Case for Christ, True Truth, Love: The Ultimate Apologetic, and co-author with R.C. Sproul and John Gerstner of Classical Apologetics, and has written numerous articles on theology, apologetics, C.S. Lewis, and the lives and works of many other authors and teachers. Art earned his M.Div. from Pittsburgh Theological Seminary and a Ph.D. in Religious Studies from the University of Pittsburgh.
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