L. William Countryman muses over the fact that, “Christians have a long and complicated relationship with love, sexuality, and friendship.” He adds, “Some Christian thinkers have used the multiplicity of Greek terms as an opportunity to define several different and even mutually exclusive types of love…Others (I count myself among them) think this multiplication of loves overinterprets the linguistic differences."
Love Human and Divine: Reflections on Love, Sexuality, and Friendship

