text: agape is not opposed to eros (except in the philosophical line up of Nygren, where he is talking about total economies of love, contrasting the Platonic eros philosophy with the Christian agape economy; the topic of that famous book is not eros in the sexual sense). The verb agapeo has been used in sexual contexts in Greek and the word eros has been used for love of Christ in Christian writers such as St Ignatius of Antioch and Origen. Agapeic living out of sexuality is found in the NT in the case of marriage and of chaste friendship, and there is a tolerant outlook on prostitution (in the gospels) and on homosexual relations in at least one case (the Centurion of Matthew 8); Paul also plays with the sexually loaded term khresis in his letter to Philemon.