Page |33 humanism that spread simultaneously "Christian love" and all other forms of into Judaism, Christianity, and Islam can love, the tradition of religious humanism be found when the lost texts of Aristotle proposes that science clarifies the were discovered, translated, and workings of love in human societies and appropriated by scholars from these religion extends the scope of love three religions who worked at the same beyond its most immediate domain of tables in Islamic libraries in Spain and kinship. Sicily during the ninth and tenth , a . . Le ges There are three major tensions in centuries. Richard Rubinstein in his 5 ' 2 -_ . . . ; . theological discussions of Christian love. timely book titled Aristotle ’s Children 7 wa: They center around the two Greek words (2003) tells the story well.’ This gave . : : : - agape and eros and the Latin word rise to forms of Aristotelian religious . . i caritas. A famous book titled Agape humanism in the works of Thomas . . noe : ye and Eros (1953) written by the Swedish Aquinas in Christianity, Maimonides in ; . a theologian Anders Nygren traced the Judaism, and Averroés in Islam. On the «a : 9 . debate through Christian history. American scene, one sees another form ‘ 4 as . : Nygren believed that the truly normative of Christian humanism in the synthesis . . as . . . : : and authentic understanding of Christian of philosophical pragmatism, with all its : . . . . love is found in the word agape, the influence from Darwin, and expressions or . f liberal Christianity and th ‘al Greek word used for Christian love in OF pera als tan’ y ane ime soca the New Testament. It refers to a kind of gospel movement. - oe: self-giving, even self-sacrificial, love Religious humanisms have not that is only possible by the grace of God. always flourished and are subject to '© Nygren was particularly interested in attacks from both fundamentalists and arguing that Christian love did not build scientific secularists. They need on what