The Christian virtue of love formulated in the Bible has been shaped by many centuries and by different concepts. The foundation of this process is found in the Hebrew concepts relating to love. Changing the language to Greek has demanded an effort to try and find the best concepts which imitate the richness of the Hebrew meanings. That resulted in some of them being expressed by notions that did not relate to love. What is more, the four Greek words that designate love did not have the same meanings as in Hebrew. Selected from among them, the word agapē actually was transformed and recreated by the Judeo-Christian culture to become the key word expressing the virtue of charity.
Keywords:
The concept of agapē, the virtue of love, Hebrew concepts expressing the virtue of love, Greek concepts expressing the virtue of love, translations concepts of love
Bladyniec-Sośnierz, A. M. (2017). Concepts Expressing the Virtue of Love in the Bible. Collectanea Theologica, 87(1), 75–89. https://doi.org/10.21697/ct.2017.87.1.04
https://doi.org/10.21697/ct.2017.87.1.04
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