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- Agapē (in Greek written αγάπη; pronounced "ah-GAH-pee") is the Greek word for divine, unconditional love. It was used by the early Christians to refer to the special love for God and God's love for man, as well as the self-sacrificing love they believed all should have for each other. It is a prominent term in the works of C.S. Lewis.
- Agape is a spirit in Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene (1590).
Christian love, “charity” (1 Cor. 13:1-8). Saint Ignatius of Antioch and Saint Hippolytus of Tome (second century) use Eucharist and Agape as synonyms (cf.1 Cor.11); in Jude 12, the ‘love feasts’ are most naturally understood to be the combined Agape---Eucharists. The Agape (in Didache, 70-110) is a Jewish meal (Chaburah) Christianized as in the ‘new meal’ of Christ’s Kingdom and Love. Today the term Agape refers to the Easter Sunday’s Vespers (held either in the morning or the afternoon) which is also called the Second Resurrection Service. During this Service the Gospel reading relating to the first appearance of the Resurrected Christ to His disciples is read in many languages besides Greek. , in order to emphasize the universality of salvation in the Resurrected Christ and its message to all people and nations.
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