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did Nygren oppose the caritas view of Christian love? The answer is that the meaning of love as caritas did exactly what Nygren thought Paul and Luther, his theological heroes, did not do. In the classic Roman Catholic view, love as caritas builds on eros. Caritas was seen to include natural desi

take laughter as our model, perhaps it means that language gives rise to responses that have a direct effect on our perceptual and motor systems. Sermons may terrify because they create worlds inside of the listener that seem real. We can see and hear torment and imagine the feelings of pain and su

Aquinas, Summo Contra Gentiles, Book Two: Creation, chapters 31-38, pp. 91-115. See, for example, Martin Luther, Lectures on Galatians (1535), in Luther's Works, ed. Jaroslav Pelikan (St Louis, Missouri: Concordia Publishing House, 1964), vols. 26-27. Thomas Aquinas again provides a clear theologi

f clarity, I have slightly rearranged and modernized this quotation. It and all quotations from Edwards's sermon are taken from Jonathan Edwards, Sermons and Discourses, 1739- 1742, ed. Harry S. Stout and Nathan O. Hatch, with Kyle P. Farley, The Works of Jonathan Edwards 22 (New Haven: Yale Univers

279 did Nygren oppose the caritas view of Christian love? The answer is that the meaning of love as caritas did exactly what Nygren thought Paul and Luther, his theological heroes, did not do. In the classic Roman Catholic view, love as caritas builds on eros. Caritas was seen to include natural desires

we take laughter as our model, perhaps it means that language gives rise to responses that have a direct effect on our perceptual and motor systems. Sermons may terrify because they create worlds inside of the listener that seem real. We can see and hear torment and imagine the feelings of pain and suffer

Aquinas, Summa Contra Gentiles, Book Two: Creation, chapters 31-38, pp. 91-115. ‘ See, for example, Martin Luther, Lectures on Galatians (1535), in Luther’s Works, ed. Jaroslav Pelikan (St Louis, Missouri: Concordia Publishing House, 1964), vols. 26-27. * Thomas Aquinas again provides a clear theologic

ts of clarity, I have slightly rearranged and modernized this quotation. It and all quotations from Edwards’s sermon are taken from Jonathan Edwards, Sermons and Discourses, 1739- 1742, ed. Harry S. Stout and Nathan O. Hatch, with Kyle P. Farley, The Works of Jonathan Edwards 22 (New Haven: Yale University