Agape and Eros

Agape and Eros (Swedish: Eros och Agape) is the shorthand English name given to the treatise written by the Swedish Protestant theologian Anders Nygren, which was first published in Swedish in two parts in 1930 and 1936. It's complete title in the English language was Agape and Eros - a study of the Christian idea of love.

Nygren was one of the theologians who had formed the so-called Lundensian School of Theology, in which other important figures were Gustaf Aulén and Ragnar Bring. They all shared a keen interest in rediscovering major motifs of Luther's Reformation theology, and examining how such motifs had been employed in different ways throughout history. In this context, Nygren was examining the motif of love.^[1]