Love: Sacrifice and Charity
Stone Choir
Stone Choir
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🗓️ 15 May 2024
⏱️ 104 minutes
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Love is a multifaceted thing. Sometimes this complex nature can be masked in English by the use of the umbrella term “love” (or even by the exclusion of concepts that really fall under that umbrella — e.g., “friendship”). In this first episode in our (planned) three-episode series on love, we discuss agape (i.e., self-sacrificing or sacrificial love) and caritas (i.e., charity), their interrelationship, and some of their connections to other facets of love (e.g., storge [i.e., familial love]).
Love is a matter of who is doing the thing, whom is receiving the thing, and what the nature and scope of the thing is. The love — more accurately, the scope and nature of the love — you owe to your wife (agape, eros) is not the same as the love you owe to your siblings (agape, philia) or to your nation (pietas). Love is a matter of wisdom, one that has fallen into neglect in Christian discourse.
All that is called love is not.
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| 0:00.0 | The |
| 0:07.0 | The Welcome to the Stone Choir podcast. I am Corey J. Mahler. |
| 0:41.3 | And I'm still, Woe. |
| 0:45.3 | On today's Stone Choir, we're going to be in the first of a three-part series on various facets of love. |
| 0:52.3 | Love is a word that's present in the English language and every other language, |
| 0:57.5 | duh. It also has lots of variables and adjectives and modifiers to it. And then there are related |
| 1:04.0 | words that we don't typically think of as love, at least in English. But when we look at some of the |
| 1:09.7 | other older languages that fed in English, |
| 1:12.5 | we do find that there are different words that we consolidated into one. And so this three-part |
| 1:18.8 | series is for the purpose of talking about some of those different facets. And just a very brief |
| 1:23.9 | introduction, I want to lay a couple ground rules out. One, I think the term |
| 1:29.4 | facet is a really vital part of how we're trying to explain this. If you've ever been in a |
| 1:34.9 | nice jewelry store with the white lights and maybe the salesman hand you a loop and you look at a |
| 1:40.0 | nice stone under that loop with that light shining down, it just pops, it sparkles. You see |
| 1:46.3 | incredible variety of light shining through, reflecting through the facets in the gemstone. |
| 1:52.8 | The way we're handling love in the next few weeks is that love is basically that gem, |
| 1:58.5 | and in the various words and aspects that we're talking about |
| 2:01.4 | in these sequential weeks are the facets. And I highlight that because these things are not |
| 2:09.1 | in exclusivity to each other. So as we talk about, you know, words like agape and Eros and |
| 2:15.3 | others, we're not trying to subdivide them to the point that we're |
| 2:19.5 | making them exclusive. Because as we talk about them over the next few weeks, what we're going to |
| 2:23.8 | find is that frequently you'll have a couple of them in play at the same time. But when you |
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