Addiction and virtue : beyond the models of disease and choice /
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| Author / Creator: | Dunnington, Kent, 1977- |
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| Imprint: | Downers Grove, Ill. : IVP Academic, c2011. |
| Description: | 197 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Strategic initiatives in evangelical theology Strategic initiatives in evangelical theology. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8463184 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- 1. Addiction and Disease: Science, Philosophy and Theology
- Defining Addiction Neurologically
- Assessing Risk Genetically
- Treating Addiction Medically
- Science, Philosophy and Theology
- 2. Addiction and Incontinence: Resources in Aristotle
- The Paradox of Addiction
- Addiction and Incontinence
- Sources of Incontinence
- 3. Addiction and Habit: Resources in Aquinas
- Aquinas on Habit
- Habit as a Mediating Category
- Kinds and Causes of Habit
- Addiction as Habit
- 4. Addiction and Intemperance: Sensory Pleasures and Moral Goods
- Complex Habits
- Addiction and Intemperance
- 5. Addiction and Modernity: The Addict as Unwitting Prophet
- Aristotle on Habit and Happiness
- Modern Arbitrariness
- Modern Boredom
- Modern Loneliness
- 6. Addiction and Sin: Testing an Ancient Doctrine
- Sins, Sin and Original Sin
- Sin, Addiction and Voluntarism
- Sin as a Religious Category
- 7. Addiction and Worship: Caritas and Its Counterfeits
- Immanence and Transcendence
- Aquinas on Charity
- Addiction and Charity
- Addiction as a Way of Life
- 8. Addiction and the Church: The Gospel and the Hope of Recovery
- Addiction and Worship
- The Church and the Hope of Recovery
- Recovery and Friendship
- Addiction as Prophetic Challenge
- Index
