Beyond Benevolence

2022-01-04 History

Author : Dawn M. Greeley
Release : 2022-01-04
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 127/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Beyond Benevolence written by Dawn M. Greeley. This book was released on 2022-01-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive history of one of the largest charitable organizations in early modern America. Drawing on extensive archival records, Beyond Benevolence tells the fascinating story of the New York Charity Organization Society. The period between 1880 and 1935 marked a seminal, heavily debated change in American social welfare and philanthropy. The New York Charity Organization Society was at the center of these changes and played a key role in helping to reshape the philanthropic landscape. Greeley uncovers rarely seen letters written to wealthy donors by working-class people, along with letters from donors and case entries. These letters reveal the myriad complex relationships, power struggles, and shifting alliances that developed among donors, clients, and charity workers over decades as they negotiated the meaning of charity, the basis of entitlement, and the extent of the obligation between classes in New York. Meticulously researched and uniquely focused on the day-to-day practice of scientific charity as much as its theory, Beyond Benevolence offers a powerful glimpse into how the trajectory of one charitable organization reflected a nation's momentous social, economic, and political upheavals as it moved into the 20th century.

Beyond Benevolence

1989 Public welfare

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Release : 1989
Genre : Public welfare
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Benevolence

2016-05-12 Fiction

Author : Mark Randolph Watters
Release : 2016-05-12
Genre : Fiction
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Download or read book Benevolence written by Mark Randolph Watters. This book was released on 2016-05-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lance Hawthorne, his life irrevocably altered by his witness of a horrific crime at the innocent age of ten, is cursed to shoulder the yoke of guilt for taking no action to report the crime's perpetrators, despite his having rock-solid evidence. His guilt deepens after the death of his beloved mother five years later, a death he is convinced he caused. Hawthorne drifts through life, his faith shattered, his risk-aversion having rendered him all but fearful of his shadow. Until the fateful office poker game offers him a chance to return to his boyhood home of Benevolence -- and to the hell that awaits him. Lance Hawthorne is a man rushing headlong into his twilight, haunted by a past that won't let go and a future that won't let up.

Jonathan Edwards and the Limits of Enlightenment Philosophy

1998 Enlightenment

Author : Leon Chai
Release : 1998
Genre : Enlightenment
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Download or read book Jonathan Edwards and the Limits of Enlightenment Philosophy written by Leon Chai. This book was released on 1998. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although most often associated with Puritanism in New England, Jonathan Edwards is in many respects closer to Enlightenment rationality. In this book, Leon Chai explores the connection between Edwards and such figures as Locke, Descartes, Malebranche, and Leibniz, by an analysis of topics that serve to define the nature and limits of rationality itself. The book consists of three parts, each of which begins with a detailed analysis of a crucial passage from a classic Enlightenment text, and then turns to a major theological work by Edwards in which the same issue is examined. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of early American religion, Enlightenment philosophy, and eighteenth-century culture in general.

Helping Without Hurting in Church Benevolence

2015-09-22 Religion

Author : Steve Corbett
Release : 2015-09-22
Genre : Religion
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Download or read book Helping Without Hurting in Church Benevolence written by Steve Corbett. This book was released on 2015-09-22. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a low-income person asks your church for help, what do you do next? God is extraordinarily generous, and our churches should be, too. Because poverty is complex, however, helping low-income people often requires going beyond meeting their material needs to holistically addressing the roots of their poverty. But on a practical level, how do you move forward in walking with someone who approaches your church for financial help? From the authors of When Helping Hurts comes Helping Without Hurting in Church Benevolence, a guidebook for church staff, deacons, or volunteers who work with low-income people. Short and to the point, this tool provides foundational principles for poverty alleviation and then addresses practical matters, like: How to structure and focus your benevolence work How to respond to immediate needs while pursuing long-term solutions How to mobilize your church to walk with low-income people With practical stories, forms, and tools for churches to use, Helping Without Hurting in Church Benevolence is an all-in-one guide for church leaders and laypeople who want to help the poor in ways that lead to lasting change.

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