What type of Greek love is this?

Question

Agape- God's unconditional love
Eros- romantic love between a husband and a wife
Phileo- brotherly love between friends
Storge- natural love between a parent and a child

1 Corinthians 13:4-8
"Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails."

Is this agape, eros, phileo, or storge? Is it all of them?

Answer 1

It is unconditional, unselfish love, much like agape, but experienced by people. Not that that's a real difference. Matthew 5:45 has Jesus describing God's love and telling us to deal with each other the same way.

Answer 2

it seems like it's all of them..but husbands and wives have stopped loving each other before...and friends have been known to turn on each other...i suppose it's more of Agape and storge...those two types of love are usually seen as unfailing and unconditional, and they encompass all the ideals included in the corinthian verse above.

Answer 3

Your understanding's of Greek love are later one's.

Agape is as much as anything social concern, Eros full carnality ranging into the height's of interpersonal yet spiritual (sic) love, phileo might be better termed civilian comradeship or affinity involving appreciation and admiration. Storge I had never heard of.

Samuel and Liddell's Greek Lexicon is a good source for Hellenic conceptions.

To more directly answer your question, it sounds like a love undisappointed, but love "keeps no records of wrongs" - one would suggest all types of love may partake of the qualities articulated in the quotation, but that not all love should be considered veritable if it fails of any or all of these qualities.

Ideoagapaic Love or Phantasmerotic Love, or Theophilaic Love might be what is spoken of in Corinthians.

Lastly, "Does it matter?". As one sage said,"And thou be not in love, speak not of love." [In my experience, the practicalities of life may gain one the appearance of denying the qualities enumerated above: the resulting mental clash, if one try to live up to an ideal of "what love should be", may result in the downfall of the very thing one is trying to uphold. "Love lifts one eternally up." {along the lines of "Love never fails"} might also be added to the list - one does not need to uplift it, but rather the opposite.]

Love may not boast, but I may. etc.

(*wink*)
Master Anarchy.

Answer 4

None of them. Pride, or love-of-self, has a place in ancient Greek moral thought that contrasts with orthodox Christianity.

Answer 5

I would say all of them...