Christopher C. H. Cook

Alcohol, Addiction and Christian Ethics

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Chris Cook argues that theology should not be excluded from serious discourse about addiction.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. August 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 390g
• ISBN-13: 9780521091343
• ISBN-10: 0521091349
• Artikelnr.: 25686712

Autorenporträt

Chris Cook is chaplain of St Chad's College Durham and Professorial Research Fellow in the Department of Theology and Religion, Durham University. He is co-author of Treatment of Drinking Problems, 4th Edition (2003).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Alcohol, addiction and Christian ethics: introduction
2. An addiction in context: the use, misuse and harmful use of alcohol
3. Drunkenness as vice in the New Testament
4. Drunkenness as intemperance: Augustine, Aquinas, Luther and Whitefield
5. Temperance redefined: the nineteenth century temperance movement
6. Addiction as sin and syndrome: the divided self
7. Alcohol, addiction and Christian ethics
8. Conclusions.