The West Virginian

About the Book

The Greeks defined love in three ways: (1) Eros, which meant erotic love (2) Agape, which meant divine love (3) Philia, which meant love relating to a spiritual kinship, a soul relationship. The following series of poems are poems about a love relationship between two persons that is mainly spiritual. In these poems an attempt is made to express the inner life of two people who are in love. In our time where a great deal of emphasis is placed on the physical relationship a look beyond the surface relationship of love might be in order.

About the Author

David Thompson Rev. Thompson graduated from Hamlin High School, Hamlin WV in 1954 and after 4 year enlistment in the U. S. Army, attended and graduated from Alderson Broaddus College on 1963. He received his Master of Divinity Degree from Crozer Theological Seminary I Rochester, NY in 1966. He has done additional graduate study at the Andover-Newton Theological School in Newton Centre, MA. While in College and Seminary, Rev. Thompson served in churches as a student pastor and as an assistant to the pastor. He has held positions as pastor in West Virginia, Massachusetts, and has served as a Minister of Christian Education in Rhode Island. Rev. David Thompson has also served as a pastor in the United Church of Canada, Fenelon Falls, Ontario.