ABSTRACT
Love and agapé are words with multiple meanings. We may say, for instance, that we love our country, local sports team, pepperoni pizza, spouse, or favorite movies. The fact that people talk of love in such varied ways prompted Sigmund Freud to say that “‘love’ is employed in language” in an “undifferentiated way.”1 Theologian Mildred Bangs Wynkoop concurs, saying that love is a multifarious “weasel-word.”2
