Love Your Neighbor

"Writing for Plough magazine, Gerhard Lohfink claims that “the topic of love for neighbor is widely misunderstood.” He goes on to explain what it meant in the context of Jesus and the early Christian community: “In the Bible, the command ‘Love your neighbor as you love yourself’ does not refer to the individual ‘I’ in the modern sense. Rather, the ‘I’ here means one’s family. … Accordingly, here ‘Love your neighbor as yourself’ means: The help and solidarity that everyone in Israel owes his o...