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Philosophy & Love

The Fourfold Loves of C.S. Lewis and Benedict XVI

David Goicoechea compares two Christian understandings of love.

On Christmas Day 2005, Pope Benedict XVI published the Encyclical Letter, Deus Caritas Est (‘God is love’). By March 6, 2006, Andrea Monda was already raising questions about the influence on the Holy Father of the scholar, Christian writer and children’s author C.S. Lewis (1898-1963). Monda, writing on the website catholic.

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