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Let Me Count the Ways

This Rock Volume 18, Number 7   September 2007     Reasons for Hope By Cherie Peacock   Letters   Keep It Together: Advice from the Trenches By Pete Vere, JCL   Further Reading   ¡Viva Cristo Rey!: The Cristeros versus the Mexican Revolution By Christopher Check   Mexico’s Tarcisius: José Sánchez del Río   Torture and Death   Further Reading   More Than a Feeling: What it Means to Follow Your Conscience By Leon J. Suprenant, Jr.   Have You Examined Your Conscience Lately?   Further Reading   God of Desire By Christopher Kaczor   Let Me Count the Ways   Further Reading   Something’s Wrong with John   Damascus Road An Unexpected Sequel By Leona Choy   By the Book Hail Mary, Conceived without Sin By Tim Staples   Eyes to See Let Your Face Shine on Us By Michael Schrauzer   Truth be Told An Inquisition Primer By Robert P. Lockwood   Quick Questions   Last Writes By Karl Keating    Subscribe    Permissions

We say we love our mothers and we love ice cream. The word covers such a wide range of human affections that it is helpful to look at Greek, which has four terms:

• Storge is affectionate love, such as the need-love of a child for a parent.
• Philia is the love felt for friends.
• Eros is romantic or sexual love, the love that desires to possess the beloved.
• Agape is self-sacrificing love, the love that desires the good of the beloved.