VP JD Vance Christian Concept
There is a Christian concept that you love your family and then you love your neighbor, and then you love your community, and then you love your fellow citizens, and then after that, prioritize the rest of the world.
Saint Thomas Aquinas discusses the hierarchy or ordo caritatis (order of charity) at Summa theologiae II, q. 26 and orders love in this way: God Myself (“a man ought to love himself more than his neighbor.”) Neighbor My body (:”we ought to love our neighbor more than our own body.”)
Saint Thomas Aquinas discusses the hierarchy or ordo caritatis (order of charity) at Summa theologiae II, q. 26 and orders love in this way: God Myself (“a man ought to love himself more than his neighbor.”) Neighbor My body (:”we ought to love our neighbor more than our own body.”)