The Four Loves
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A candid, wise, and warmly personal book in which Lewis explores the possibilities and problems of the four basic kinds of human like- affection, friendship, erotic like, and the like of God. “Immensely worthwhile for its simplicity…a rare and memorable book” (Sydney J. Harris).Amazon.com Review
The Four Likes summarizes four kinds of human like–affection, friendship, erotic like, and the like of God. Masterful lacking being magisterial, this book’s wise, gentle, candid reflections on the virtues and dangers of like draw on sources from Jane Austen to St. Augustine. The chapter on charity (like of God) may be the best thing Lewis ever wrote about Christianity. Consider his reflection on Augustine’s teaching that one must like only God, because only God is eternal, and all worldly like will someday pass away:
Who could conceivably start to like God on such a prudential ground–because the security (so to speak) is better? Who could even include it among the grounds for loving? Would you choose a wife or a Friend–if it comes to that, would you choose a dog–in this spirit? One must be outside the world of like, of all likes, before one thus calculates.
His description of Christianity here is no less forceful and opinionated than in Mere Christianity or The Problem of Pain, but it is far less nervous about its reader’s response–and therefore more persuasive than any of his apologetics. When he starts to clarify the scenery of faith, Lewis writes: “Take it as one man’s daydream, nearly one man’s myth. If anything in it is useful to you, use it; if anything is not, never give it a second thought.” –Michael Joseph Yucky
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Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Doing a book review on CS Lewis’ “The Four Likes” brings into the world an entire new meaning on ‘a writer’s block’. To expound this extraordinary Lewis’ work on the four New Tribute Greek “like” words – storge (natural affection), philia (friendship, like), eros (attraction, sexual like), and agape (like, charity) – amounts to nothing more than a leaky version of the Cliff Notes at best. There are Lewis’ scholars who could do far more justice to this work than I.
The long and fleeting of “The Four Likes” is this. The three “likes” (storge, philia, and eros) are stemmed from agape (God’s perfect like). Each is broke and flawed since the Fall. Underlying all that we do, in both excellent and not so excellent, are these shades of likes. All are a fragment of and a divagation from the origin. The agape. Our forms of like have fallen fleeting and are in need of mending. Only God’s like mends.
If your affectionate additional were to question after a romantic candlelit dinner, “What now my like?” Don’t sing. Lean forwards and cup her hand, you segue to say, “Eros makes promises. Romance must die in marriage, and that marriage requires affection.” Adage this may or may not take you to places you’ve never been – for the better or for the worst. Your look of like, but, could only change for the better. Thanks to Lewis.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
C.S. Lewis is a fantastic writer and one of the fantastic accessible Christian minds but I reflect he got lost in his own theory in this one. This book has some fantastic thoughts and is very clarifying in the many senses of Christian like but Lewis gets very verbose and muddy in his heavy essay writing in the Four Likes. I reflect Lewis does better when he suggests or leads the reader to answers rather than writing and supporting his philosophy and theology in a straightforward manner. The Four Likes is still a worthwhile read but for a fantastic Christain C.S. Lewis read try the Screwtape Letters first.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
The leader is one of the most vital theologians of the 20th century, although his scholarly discipline was literature. He examines four main types of like, with special concentration on two types of like he calls “Gift-like” and “Need-like.”
Early in the book, Lewis identifies the humblest and most widely diffused of the likes, that is, the likes and likings at the sub-human level. Following an examination of sub-human like, he addresses a like that he calls “affection.” Affection comes from the Greek like word storge.
The third chapter is devoted to friendship like, from the Greek work philia. This friendship like is the least of the natural likes, “the least instinctive organic, biological, gregarious, and necessary” (58). Friendship should be distinguished from community like, because communities require cooperation. Friendship like by contrast is free from instinct, free from duty, and free from the need to be needed. Following an examination of friendship, Lewis addresses eros. By eros Lewis refers to “the like in which lovers are in,” i.e., romantic like.
In the book’s final chapter Lewis addresses charity. Charity is `Gift-like’ and the primal `Gift-like’ comes from the divine energy. While Lewis claims that “to like at all is to be vulnerable” (121), he also claims that God is self-sufficient. “In God there is no hunger that needs to be filled, only plenteousness that desires to give. The doctrine that God was under no necessity to make is not a piece of dry scholastic speculation. It is essential” (126). Also, “God, who needs nothing, likes into being, holy, superfluous creatures in order that He may like and perfect them” (127).
After God likes into being wholly superfluous creatures, God implants in persons creatures both Gift-likes and Need-likes. Gift-like comes by grace and we call it charity. God also gives a supernatural Need-like of God and a supernatural Need-like of additional creatures. It is through these two gifts that creatures have a longing for God and a like for others.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5