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Defined as a forgetting of self, self-interest, or personal motive toward self-glory, disinterested benevolence is exalting Christ, with devoted love, sympathy, and kindness for your neglected, sick, oppressed, or ensnared fellows.
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Then, disinterested benevolence may best be described as the unselfish seeking of the highest good or well-being of God and others for its own sake, because the selfless promoting of both God and man's well-being is in itself the highest good possible -- which is again, disinterested benevolence.
The dictionary defines the term this way, "not influenced by personal interest or selfish motives." The key word is influenced. The reason why disinterested benevolence is "very rare" in the world today is that personal interest and selfish motives form the basis for most giving; and personal interest and selfish motives are subject to human ...
Stephen Post. ABSTRACT. This essay details the history of an important debate in American cal Christianity over the problem of disinterested benevolence, the common pression for Christian love during the early decades of the nineteenth It focuses on the thought of Jonathan Edwards and Samuel Hopkins, who.
The idea of “disinterested benevolence” also turned many evangelicals toward reform. Preachers championing disinterested benevolence argued that true Christianity requires that a person give up self-love in favor of loving others.
Jun 26, 2022 · The idea of “disinterested benevolence” also turned many evangelicals toward reform. Preachers championing disinterested benevolence argued that true Christianity requires that a person give up self-love in favor of loving others.
In Hopkins’s Inquiry into the Nature of True Holiness (1773), and in later works, he stressed “disinterested benevolence” whereby a person selflessly submitted to the divine will to the point of being willing to be damned for God’s glory. This theory of disinterested benevolence was put to the test when Hopkins relocated to Newport.
