If philosophers argue that the word God has suffered the death of a thousand qualifications, how much more must that be said of the word love? The elusive character of love has prompted far more than a thousand definitions. It has been used to describe so many things that its ability to describe a single thing has been sapped. A word that means everything obviously cannot mean anything. So, because the term love has been layered with so many diverse and sentimental associations, do we assume that