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Stone Choir

Love: Family, Friends, Tribe, and Nation

Stone Choir

Stone Choir

Education, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 585 Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2024

⏱️ 109 minutes

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Hosts

Corey J. Mahler

coreyjmahler.com

@CoreyJMahler

    Woe

    aka Eschatologuy

    @treblewoe

      Love and duty are matters of concentric circles — to the closer is the greater duty and the greater love owed. In the previous episode in this series, we covered the facets of self-sacrifice love (agape) and charity (caritas); in this episode, we cover familial and brotherly or fraternal love, emotional (amor) and intellectual (dilectio) love, and piety (the historical, proper sense) and paternal love — three pairs, as it were. We call these facets, because it is not that love can be dissected and broken down into constituent parts; rather, it is that love is expressed in different ways between different people at different times. The love a husband has for his wife is not the same as the love a man has for his nation.

      If we are commanded to love, then we must certainly understand what it means to love. We must know whom (and what) we must love and what is the nature and scope of that love. The world would deceive us by calling that which is not — and often even that which cannot be — love ‘love’. As Christians, we are commanded to be wise, and love — to whom it is owed and how it must or must not be expressed — is assuredly a matter of wisdom.

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      “Homosexual fornication” and “sodomy” are used as descriptors for an example around the 40:00 mark, but the matter is not discussed in detail or explicitly.

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      0:00.0

      I'm I'm Welcome to the Stone Choir podcast. I am Corey J. Mahler. And I'm still, whoa. On today's Stone

      0:46.0

      Choir, we are continuing what is the second of our three-part series on various facets of love.

      0:52.2

      Last week, we talked about sacrifice and charity as certain aspects of love.

      0:57.9

      And we made the point in the intro to that episode that these are really all facets of one thing.

      1:03.7

      And so there are lots of different words for them.

      1:05.4

      They're different concepts.

      1:06.7

      And some of those concepts and words vary in different languages.

      1:10.5

      But our ultimate point is to be talking about love overall

      1:14.7

      because it's not always the way that we think about love in English.

      1:19.6

      You might say that you love Stone Choir,

      1:22.6

      but that's not the same way that you love your kid

      1:24.7

      or the same way that you love the state that you live in.

      1:29.0

      It's okay for that word to be overloaded like that. And we all instinctively understand that there

      1:34.5

      are different facets when we're using those things. But by spending a little time discussing

      1:39.5

      the specifics of the individual facets, we can begin to see certain places in our lives where we're

      1:46.6

      failing to live up to some aspect of them. And ultimately, the reason for doing this three-part

      1:52.5

      series is both to illustrate, especially in the third part next week, which as I mentioned last

      1:58.0

      week when we're doing the episode on marriage, that will be a strictly no kids allowed episode.

      2:03.6

      And we've already had that conversation screened with your kids and want them to hear it.

      2:07.6

      But we're going to segregate everything about marriage in that.

      2:10.6

      But marriage itself, when you're talking about even Eros, there's also agape and there's a more, the different facets, you know, in Greek of what we will call

      2:20.2

      marital love in English. It's a continuum. There's overlap. There are exclusions in some cases

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