The Four Loves, written by C.S. Lewis, is about C.S. Lewis’s philosophical and theological explanation of four types of love: storge, philia, Eros, and agape. All different types are used in the bible to define different types of love and they are all greek words.
Before C.S. Lewis goes into depth about each aspect of love, he first starts by explaining the need for love. Differentiating between the need for love and the gift of love (which is God’s love). C.S. Lewis then moves on to explain the nature of pleasures. In this part there are also distinctions, between pleasures we need, and pleasures we appreciate.
The book then continues to address the different types of love. The main difference here is the nature of the words in that storge, philia, Eros are natural loves, while agape, which is “love given” has a higher level to it. This final love is the closest description of what God did when he sent his son Jesus to die on the cross.
