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- Disinterested benevolence stems from a genuine love for God and His gift to humanity. It is not affected by circumstances. It is not subject to the wise or unwise use of the funds given or by the success or failure of the project. Disinterested benevolence permits the donor to give willingly to a project with which he is not totally in accord.
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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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Disinterested benevolence permits the donor to give willingly to a project with which he is not totally in accord. It allows one to give to an activity which may not be operating entirely to the donor's personal satisfaction.
Not only is the love expressed by the term, disinterested benevolence, universally owed to God and man, but it is owed without regard to the goodness or badness of their moral character, i.e., "God so loved the world" (John 3:16) , not merely the Elect. "Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners" (1Timothy 1:15).
Hopkins built upon Edwards’s doctrine of disinterested benevolence by expanding its definition to include all people. This inclusive, rather than exclusive, definition incorporated enslaved Africans and African Americans. Glorifying God, Hopkins believed, required fighting for the oppressed.
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.
They make some very fine distinctions in the definition of self-love and disinterested benevolence that leave open the possibility that Edwards was indeed a Christian Hedonist. But I don't think this essay settles the matter for us.
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.
