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9780521851824

Alcohol, Addiction and Christian Ethics

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  • ISBN13:

    9780521851824

  • ISBN10:

    0521851823

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2006-05-29
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Addictive disorders are characterised by a division of the will, in which the addict is attracted both by a desire to continue the addictive behaviour and also by a desire to stop it. Academic perspectives on this predicament usually come from clinical and scientific standpoints, with the 'moral model' rejected as outmoded. But Christian theology has a long history of thinking and writing on such problems and offers insights which are helpful to scientific and ethical reflection upon the nature of addiction. Chris Cook reviews Christian theological and ethical reflection upon the problems of alcohol use and misuse, from biblical times until the present day. Drawing particularly upon the writings of St Paul the Apostle and Augustine of Hippo, a critical theological model of addiction is developed. Alcohol dependence is also viewed in the broader ethical perspective of the use and misuse of alcohol within communities.

Table of Contents

General editor's preface ix
Preface xi
1 Alcohol, addiction and Christian ethics: introduction 1(8)
2 An addiction in context: the use, misuse and harmful use of alcohol 9(27)
3 Drunkenness as vice in the New Testament 36(16)
4 Drunkenness as intemperance: Augustine, Aquinas, Luther and Whitefield 52(25)
5 Temperance redefined: the nineteenth-century temperance movement 77(50)
6 Addiction as sin and syndrome: the divided self 127(44)
7 Alcohol, addiction and Christian ethics 171(26)
8 Conclusions 197(5)
Bibliography 202(9)
Index of Bible references 211(3)
Index of names and subjects 214

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