Praeparatio Evangelicaor Daemonica? C. S. Lewis and Anders Nygren on Spiritual Longing*
C. S. Lewis read Anders Nygren's Agape and Eros in his mid-thirties, probably during the Christmas holiday of 1934. His first recorded thoughts, including the statement above, are from a letter dated Jan 8th 1935 to his Oxford colleague Janet Spens. Despite his decisive criticism of what he c...
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
[2016]
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Harvard theological review
Year: 2016, Volume: 109, Issue: 2, Pages: 207-232 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Nygren, Anders 1890-1978
/ Lewis, C. S. 1898-1963
/ Longing
/ Love
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| IxTheo Classification: | CB Christian life; spirituality KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history KDD Protestant Church KDE Anglican Church NBE Anthropology |
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| Summary: | C. S. Lewis read Anders Nygren's Agape and Eros in his mid-thirties, probably during the Christmas holiday of 1934. His first recorded thoughts, including the statement above, are from a letter dated Jan 8th 1935 to his Oxford colleague Janet Spens. Despite his decisive criticism of what he calls Nygren's central contrastthat agape is selfless and eros self-regardingLewis ends this letter with a declaration of uncertainty: However, I must tackle him again. He has shaken me up extremely. It is remarkable, then, that Nygren is not mentioned by name in Lewis's The Four Loves (1960). Lewis's opening remarks on his theology of love, which do not directly refer to Nygren, are critical of Nygren's main thesis in Agape and Eros. |
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| ISSN: | 1475-4517 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Harvard theological review
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0017816016000031 |