#562: Honoring Sinners in Christ

Thinking with Aquinas.

In Philippians 2, Paul exhorts us to do nothing from strife or vainglory; instead, he goes on, “ in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.” Such an admonition raises a number of interesting questions, as it is not entirely clear how we should esteem each other as “superior” to us. We cannot fake humility by thinking of ourselves…