The Threefold Love The Threefold Love

I. The threefold love

a. Edward Vacek: fullness of the love of God

i. Agape: love for the beloved
ii. Philia: love for the union itself
iii. Eros: love the lover experiences as a lover
iv. All-encompassing comprehensiveness of God’s love


II. Responding to God

a. All-encompassing (whole mind, heart, whole soul) Matthew 22:37-39
b. Complete Offering: Suscipe: Take & Receive
c. Because of that comprehensiveness, and if one were not to believe in God, that person would be incomplete

III. God

a. Not only the love of God in other people:
b. Love of God as “other”
c. Prayer
i. Active receptivity (Avila)
ii. Comprehensiveness of Love (Iggy)

IV. Self

a. Model of neighbour love is love for self
i. Not thinking of ourselves as good
ii. Romans 6: 8, God does not love us in our goodness but in our sin
iii. Movie: hindi tayo tinatawag dahil magaling tayo, pero dahil mahal niya an gating buong pagkatao

V. Neighbour

a. Not only Christ in the Neighbour
b. Neighbour himself
c. One thing to love Christ in Jack, but another to actually love Jack  ¶ 6:12 am