Love And Ethos In T. S. Lewis 'The Four Loves'

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Lewis starts off the introduction of The Four Loves by invoking ethos when he compares God to love. He talks about the love that God showed when he sent His son here and when Jesus Christ showed his love to us when He was crucified, died on a cross for our sins, and resurrected into heaven after three days, as Christians believe. Lewis continues to talk about God throughout the introduction. Mentioning God helps to appeal to one’s religious devotion, or ethos, is the best way to appeal to one’s ideology and strengthen your argument.
Religion and love are two of the unique topics with the ability to appeal to emotion (ethos), ideology (pathos), and logic (logos), or at least the belief that people have in their religious faith or what people