Ordered to Love: Recovering the Order of Affections from the Home to the Ends of the Earth

Must Christians love everyone equally?

In Ordered to Love, Alex Kocman argues that Scripture provides a clear hierarchy of affections: love for God first, then the church, followed by neighbor, nation, and finally the nations beyond. When love follows this order, Christians are preserved from both rootless cosmopolitanism and solely inward-looking nationalism. Drawing from Scripture and the Christian tradition, this book presents a theological vision in which grace restores nature—reforming households, strengthening the church, ordering national life, and advancing the gospel to the ends of the earth.

For pastors, thinkers, and believers longing for coherence between love of home and love for the world, Ordered to Love calls for a recovery of rightly ordered affections—from the home to the nations, for the glory of God.