The Philosophy of the Christians: Agape (Love)

Philosophy in Greece had discovered the power of Eros (Love) as that mediating tension which makes possible the ascent from the material world to the spiritual one. Christianity, instead, speaks of love as AGAPE. Agape is the love, which belongs primarily to God. Because of that love, God has descended among men in order to rescue them. For the Greeks only man is capable of loving, whereas for, the Christians only God is the true lover. The Christian can learn agape by means of a radical conversion that brings him to imitate God.