* Philotes ( mythology ), a minor Greek Goddess, the personification of affection ; she belongs in a group of several deities of love: Agape ( altruistic love of mankind ), Philia ( friendly love ), Eros ( sensual love ) and Storge ( the love for children and animals )

The largest Pentecostal Holiness churches in the United States include Cathedral of Praise World Outreach Center in Oklahoma City, pastored by Tony Miller ; Northwood Temple in Fayetteville, North Carolina, pastored by John Hedgepeth ; Evangelistic Temple in Tulsa, Oklahoma, pastored by Norman Wilkie ; Life Christian Center in Oklahoma City, pastored by Dwight Burchett ; Christian Heritage Church in Tallassee, Florida, pastored by Bob Shelley ; Redemption World Outreach Center in Greenville, South Carolina, pastored by Ron Carpenter, Jr .; and World Agape Mission Church in Los Angeles, pastored by John Kim.

Agape is more a love by choice than philos, which is love by chance ; and it refers to the will rather than the emotion.

Agape ( agápē ) means love in modern-day Greek.

Gaddis died at home in East Hampton, New York, of prostate cancer on December 16, 1998, but not before creating his final work, Agapē Agape ( the first word of the title is the Greek agapē, meaning divine, unconditional love ), which was published in 2002, a novella in the form of the last words of a character similar but not identical to his creator.

* Agape Greek word, given the association of " loving-kindness " or " love "

* A greeting among Thelemites, 93 is the numerological value of Thelema ( Will ) and Agape ( Love ) in Greek letters.

" Agape " is the Greek word used in the Bible for God's unconditional love.

Saints Faith, Hope and Charity (, New Testament Greek: ( Pistis, Elpis, and Agape ), Church Slavonic: ( Věra, Nadežda, Ljuby ) are a group of Christian martyred saints.

In the reign of Roman Emperor Hadrian ( 2nd century AD ), a matron Sophia ( Wisdom ), with her three youthful daughters, Pistis, Elpis, and Agape ( Greek for Faith, Hope and Charity ), became Catholic martyrs, and all three were interred on the Aurelian Way.

In the Greek language, they are Thelema ( Will ) and Agape ( Love ).

* Agape, Greek word, given the association of " loving-kindness " or " love "

The Agape feast is mentioned in.

* Agape: In the New Testament, agapē is charitable, selfless, altruistic, and unconditional.

Agape received a broader usage under later Christian writers as the word that specifically denoted " Christian " love or " charity " (), or even God himself (, ὁ θεὸς ἀγάπη ἐστίν, " God is Love ").

The term " Agape " is also used in reference to meals in and according to a few manuscripts of

The Agape is a common feature used by the Catholic Neocatechumenal Way in which members of the Way participate in light feast after the celebration of the Eucharist on certain occasions.

Agape is also the name given by some masonic traditions to the formal meals held after meetings.

On the afternoon of Easter Day, a joyful service called " Agape Vespers " is celebrated During this service the Great Prokeimenon is chanted and a lesson from the Gospel () is read in as many different languages as possible, accompanied by the joyful ringing of bells.

In many parts of Europe, Campus Crusade is known as Agape Europe or " New Life " in post Soviet countries.

Agape is used in the biblical passage known as the " love chapter ", 1 Corinthians 13, and is described there and throughout the New Testament as sacrificial love.

Agape is also used in ancient texts to denote feelings for one's children and the feelings for a spouse, and it was also used to refer to a love feast.

It is entering the ' Cloud of Unknowing ', which is beyond rational understanding, and can be embraced only in love of God ( Agape or Awe ).

Agape Europe is the Western European ministry of Campus Crusade for Christ, an interdenominational movement that was founded in 1951 in the United States of America.

Wildmon's son Tim is president of AFA and ran a news organization called Agape Press, which went offline in early 2007, when it merged with AFR News to create One News Now.

" The moral principles Fletcher is specifically referring to are the moral codes of Christianity and the type of love he is specifically referring to is ' Agape ' love.

* Liber Agape vel C vel Azoth-The Book of the Unveiling of the Sangraal wherein it is spoken of the Wine of the Sabbath of the Adepts.

** Irene of Thessalonica ( died 304 ), one of the virgin sisters Agape, Chionia, and Irene

Broadcasting their first recorded songs on WREO radio in Ashtabula County, Ohio in the fall of 1968, ASFB joined Larry Norman and the California group, Agape, as one of the original " pioneers " of Jesus music, birthed in that same year.

Though still mentioned in the Quinisext Council of 692, the Agape fell into disuse soon after, except perhaps in Ethiopia.

The Council of Laodicea of about 363-364 forbade the use of churches for celebrating the Agape or love feast.

Clement of Alexandria ( c. 150-211 / 216 ) distinguished so-called " Agape " meals of luxurious character from the agape ( love ) " which the food that comes from Christ shows that we ought to partake of ".

Agape was appropriated by Christians for use to express the unconditional love of God.

* Agape – selfless altruistic love

The expression The Lord's Supper, derived from St. Paul's usage in, may have originally referred to the Agape feast, the shared communal meal with which the Eucharist was originally associated.

According to Don Williams, who founded the Salt Company coffeehouse in the summer of 1968, Norman " heard ‘ The Agape ,’ a hard rock Christian group, play songs about Jesus ", which " convinced Larry that he could use his rock music to communicate the gospel ".

On July 31, 1945, he gave a speech to the Agape Lodge in which he attempted to explain how he felt that The Book of the Law could be made relevant to " modern life.

The Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Canada, La Guarde Nativite de Cornwall, Canadian Cancer Society, the Agape Centre ( which serves free meals to more than 100 residents a day ), Salvation Army, United Way, Canadian Mental Health Association, St. John Ambulance and Canadian Red Cross all have offices in Cornwall.

The Schwarzenau Brethren groups ( the largest being the Church of the Brethren ) regularly practice Agape feasts ( called " Love Feast "), which include feetwashing, a supper, and communion, with hymns and brief scriptural meditations interspersed throughout the worship service.

body in the world was Agape Lodge in Southern California, which was headed for a time by McMurtry's friend Jack Parsons.

The result was the rise of Thanatos ( Freud's death drive ), and Phobos ( existential fear ), which are the respective pathological versions of Agape and Eros.

The Moravian Lovefeast is based upon the Agape feast and the meals of the early churches described in the Bible in the Acts of the Apostles, which were partaken in unity and love.