Which C.S. Lewis book about love was published in 1960?

The Four Loves is C.S. Lewis’s 1960 book about love.

The work developed from a BBC radio series broadcast in 1958 and examines four Greek terms associated with different kinds of love: affection, friendship, erotic love, and charitable love. Lewis uses the terms storge, philia, eros, and agape, while also discussing how these forms overlap in ordinary life.

Rather than treating love as a single emotion, Lewis distinguishes relationships based on family attachment, companionship, romantic desire, and self-giving charity. His Christian perspective becomes most explicit in the discussion of agape, which he presents as a divine form of love.

The book is often confused with The Four Loves radio talks because the broadcast material preceded the book. It is also distinct from A Grief Observed, Lewis’s 1961 reflection on bereavement after the death of Joy Davidman. The Four Loves remains one of his most accessible works of popular theology.