The concept of agape was shaped by Christian theology in order to affirm that God is love without jeopardizing God's perfection and omnipotence. In contrast to the concept of eros, agape is a love that is not driven by any kind of need and that knows no condition to be given. Agape is an unconditional love, a kind of love that is defined by activity more than by passivity, and a love that is not responding to the goodness of the beloved but that it is given without a sufficient reason. This unconditional love has become the ideal of love, a love that is not self-interested and that is strange to any economical logic. However, this love is, at the same time, an affirmation of power and sovereignty. In this paper, I will show how this concept of agape is dependent on a paradigm that defines life in terms of self-sufficiency, and that I have called the bio-theo-political paradigm of autarchy (Grassi, 2022). If a perfect living being is essentially autarchic, and does not need anything nor anyone else, then the kind of love that is proper to this perfect living being must be also independent from anything else but itself. Whereas eros stresses dependence and necessity, agape is defined by independence and gratuity, and therefore only agape can be predicated of God as being absolutely powerful and self-sufficient. However, this sovereign love is troublesome and ambivalent, for, on the one hand, in its unconditionality it entails self-denial, but, on the other hand, its affirmation of the lover as the one who loves without any motivation ends up denying the value of the beloved one. Although agape has proven to be a key concept to think on social cohesion and justice, its meaning and definition shows that it is also deeply problematic, for it enables different kinds of asymmetrical relationships between human beings.