Victims and Sinners: Spiritual Roots of Addiction and Recovery - Softcover

Mercadante, Linda A.

 
9780664255084: Victims and Sinners: Spiritual Roots of Addiction and Recovery
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0664255086 ISBN 13: 9780664255084
Verlag: Westminster John Knox Press, 1996

Inhaltsangabe

More than one million Americans participate in nearly 50,000 Alcoholics Anonymous groups in America. Addiction recovery groups such as A.A. often rely on religious themes in their work, offering a form of spirituality as a way to deal with life's problems. Many recovery groups borrow selectively from theology because the full Christian doctrine of sin can be alienating for those in recovery. Linda Mercadante offers a theological critique of addiction recovery programs and proposes an alternate view of addiction that avoids both excessive blame and excessive victimization. This book is for pastoral counselors, clergy, laypersons, and recovery group members wanting to reassess addiction recovery from a theological perspective. It offers a wake-up call to the church to take seriously the need to establish recovery groups and to construct a language for better dialogue.

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More than one million Americans participate in Alcoholics Anonymous groups. Addiction recovery groups such as A.A. often rely heavily on religious themes, offering a form of spirituality as a way to deal with life's problems. Many recovery groups, however, borrow selectively from theology because the full Christian doctrine of sin can be alienating for those in recovery. Linda Mercadante offers a theological critique of addiction recovery programs and proposes an alternate view of addiction that avoids both excessive blame and excessive victimization. This book is for pastoral counselors, clergy, laypersons, and recovery group members wanting to reassess addiction recovery from a theological perspective. It offers a wake-up call to the church both to establish recovery groups and to construct a language for better dialogue.

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Verlag
Westminster John Knox Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1996
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0664255086
ISBN 13 
9780664255084
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
236
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