The language of love -- Biblical views of love -- A world without love? : the Greco-Roman world and early Christianity -- Caritas : the augustinian synthesis of biblical agape and hellenistic eros -- Love and the individual : Abelard and Bernard -- Mystics and troubadours -- Faith formed by love : scholasticism -- Faith active in love : reformation -- Love as service : pietism and the diaconal movements -- Love in the modern world