| ### QUESTION 25 ### OF THE OBJECT OF CHARITY ###  |

| #### Prologue |

| #### #### We must now consider the object of charity; which consideration will be twofold: (1) The things we ought to love out of charity: (2) The order in which they ought to be loved. Under the first head there are twelve points of inquiry: #### (1) Whether we should love God alone, out of charity, or should we love our neighbor also? #### (2) Whether charity should be loved out of charity? #### (3) Whether irrational creatures ought to be loved out of charity? #### (4) Whether one may love oneself out of charity? #### (5) Whether one's own body? #### (6) Whether sinners should be loved out of charity? #### (7) Whether sinners love themselves? #### (8) Whether we should love our enemies out of charity? #### (9) Whether we are bound to show them tokens of friendship? #### (10) Whether we ought to love the angels out of charity? #### (11) Whether we ought to love the demons? #### (12) How to enumerate the things we are bound to love out of charity. ####  |