| ### QUESTION 27 ### OF THE PRINCIPLE ACT OF CHARITY, WHICH IS TO LOVE ###  |

| #### Prologue |

| #### #### We must now consider the act of charity, and (1) the principal act of charity, which is to love, (2) the other acts or effects which follow from that act. #### Under the first head there are eight points of inquiry: #### (1) Which is the more proper to charity, to love or to be loved? #### (2) Whether to love considered as an act of charity is the same as goodwill? #### (3) Whether God should be loved for His own sake? #### (4) Whether God can be loved immediately in this life? #### (5) Whether God can be loved wholly? #### (6) Whether the love of God is according to measure? #### (7) Which is the better, to love one's friend, or one's enemy? (8) Which is the better, to love God, or one's neighbor? ####  |