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Love, Pain, Grief, and Joy: Vol. 1, The Four Loves by C.S. Lewis

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Is Need Love Really Selfless?

Lewis was actually thinking about nygrine's concepts are inadequate. The basic idea is agape, gift love is totally selfless. God loves us, totally giving of himself. A child who runs to his mother because it's hungry or because it scraped its knee isn't very God-like. Lewis deconstructs that notion. He says that's too simplistic. We're made to be dependent on God.

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