Hopkinsians
the name given to those who adopt the theological opinions of Samuel Hopkins. They are not a distinct sect, but are pretty numerous in the United States, in some of the Christian bodies of which the tenets are generally Calvinistic. The fundamental doctrine of the Hopkinsian system, however, is, that all virtue and true holiness consist in disinterested benevolence, and that all sin is selfishness-the self-love which leads a man to give his first regard even to his own eternal interests being condemned as sinful.