A Minuscule History of Love
Attraction man-woman in antiquity was considered a mere passion. Marriage, on the contrary, was a social contract, with little to do with passion. Love was only between equals: the enjoyment of friendship.
Later, Christianity invented ‘agapé’ or ‘charitas’, a “love in reverse”, where, what the lover wants is to fulfill the loved one, not himself.
Christians learned this from the history of Creation plus the history of Incarnation. Since then, they are trying to build marriages based on this “meta-natural” pattern. Will they succeed?
