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Ancient Sins . . . Modern Addictions

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Author : R. Scott Sullender
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1620326906
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Ancient Sins . . . Modern Addictions written by R. Scott Sullender and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2013-07-05 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a virtual epidemic of addiction in the United States, both traditional addictions to drugs and alcohol but also newer addictions, like sex, gambling, rage, work, and food/eating. Some authorities have labeled addictions the number one mental health problem in America. We are spending millions of dollars annually trying to prevent, understand, and treat this epidemic--and yet by any measure of success we are losing this "war." In this cultural context Dr. Sullender invites us to look again at the spiritually based scheme of the Seven Deadly Sins, which originated at the dawn of Western civilization. He suggests that what our spiritual forebears meant by "deadly" is best captured in the modern concept of "addiction." Based on this thesis, this book explores what is addictive about the sins of pride, envy, anger, greed, gluttony, sloth, and lust, and suggests that these sins are all obsessive, and as such become the mental component in the addictive cycle. Each chapter concludes by offering some spiritual resources, practices, and insights that can help us win the battle against addiction, which is ultimately won or lost on a mental or spiritual plane.

The Freedom to Love

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Author : Emmerich Vogt
Publisher : Hillcrest Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 1938223071
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (382 download)

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Download or read book The Freedom to Love written by Emmerich Vogt and published by Hillcrest Publishing Group. This book was released on 2012-04 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The modern world is full of temptations that can lead people not only into unhappy lives but also into the throes of addiction. Navigating the world alone is not an easy task for any of us. Why not let The Freedom to Love be a most valued companion in overcoming an addiction to a sinful life? By living your life guided by true Christian morality and spiritual principles, you can break free from temptations and have the courage to experience real love. Why study the 12 Step recovery from a Christian context? Addicts and codependents are unable to choose real love without being grounded in solid moral values. Christianity offers a purposeful commitment to a way of life that heals human wounds and rectifies the effects of sin. It promotes character, growing in the measure that the person depends on truth and grace. Devote yourself to the study and development of Christ's love and you will find the strength to break free from addiction, codependency and sinful behaviors that preclude love.

Dangerous Passions, Deadly Sins

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Author : Dennis Okholm
Publisher : Brazos Press
ISBN 13 : 1441246460
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (412 download)

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Download or read book Dangerous Passions, Deadly Sins written by Dennis Okholm and published by Brazos Press. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume unpacks the psychological insights found in the writings of three early monks--Evagrius Ponticus (fourth century), John Cassian (fifth century), and Gregory the Great (sixth century)--to help us appreciate the relevance of these monastic writers and apply their wisdom to our own spiritual and psychological well-being. The book addresses each of the seven deadly sins, offering practical guidance from the early monastic tradition for overcoming these dangerous passions. As Dennis Okholm introduces key monastic figures, literature, and thought of the early church, he relates early Christian writings to modern studies in psychology. He shows how ancient monks often anticipated the insights of contemporary psychology and sociology, exploring, for example, how their discussions of gluttony compare with current discussions regarding eating disorders. This book will appeal to readers interested in spirituality, early monastic resources, and ancient wisdom for human flourishing, as well as students of spirituality and spiritual formation.

Interfaces

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Interfaces written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Addiction and Virtue

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Author : Kent Dunnington
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 0830839011
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Addiction and Virtue written by Kent Dunnington and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2011-07-26 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this interdisciplinary work, Kent Dunnington brings the neglected resources of philosophical and theological analysis to bear on the problem of addiction. Drawing on the insights of Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas, he formulates a compelling alternative to the two dominant models of addiction--addiction as disease and addiction as choice.

The Seven Deadly Sins

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Author : Morgan Dix
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book The Seven Deadly Sins written by Morgan Dix and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The International Journal of the Addictions

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1032 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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The Fix

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Author : Damian Thompson
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0007436114
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book The Fix written by Damian Thompson and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2012-05-24 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Addictions to iphones, painkillers, cupcakes, alcohol and sex are taking over our lives.

Addiction and the Recent American Novel

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Author : Marek Lewandowski
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3346177858
Total Pages : 73 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (461 download)

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Download or read book Addiction and the Recent American Novel written by Marek Lewandowski and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2020-06-08 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Master's Thesis from the year 2012 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2.1, University of Stirling (English), course: English Literature, language: English, abstract: In order to begin to explore the evolution of the notion of ‘addiction’, and understand how it has become an integral element of today’s reality, it is first important to establish a historical foundation by resorting to the reports of individuals who we know were involved in substance use, some of whom perhaps did not experience the burden of addiction themselves, but knew or cared for addicts. These texts were an appeal to the imagination; expressions of misery, loss, and degradation. They open up the history of addiction and give valuable insight into how tendencies changed over time; how present-day social norms, values, and beliefs on the topic formed; and what led to the mechanism of addiction becoming firmly ingrained into Western society. Romanticism was fascinated by the irrational quality of dreams, nightmares, reveries, and hallucinations. Many of the pleasures and pains of De Quincey’ s ‘love affair’ with his chosen substance were shared by writers like Coleridge, whose stories of composing poetry, like the one of how he found inspiration to compose ‘Kubla Khan’ (1797), showed clearly the role that intoxicants and the dreams induced by them played in the process of imaginative creation. Molly Lefebure’s narco-biography of Coleridge, A Bondage of Opium (1974), effectively argues, that he and De Quincey supplied an early typology of ‘the addict’: ‘their lives were itinerant, they left grand literary schemes unfulfilled, and they were dogged by poverty and squalor’ . Also, Fanny Trollope, in late middle-age, is known to have established a routine of writing her books by night, ‘helped by laudanum and green tea’.

Seven Deadly Sins

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Author : Anthony Campolo
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ISBN 13 : 9780896935334
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (353 download)

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Download or read book Seven Deadly Sins written by Anthony Campolo and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Biology of Desire

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Author : Marc Lewis
Publisher : PublicAffairs
ISBN 13 : 1610394380
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book The Biology of Desire written by Marc Lewis and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through the vivid, true stories of five people who journeyed into and out of addiction, a renowned neuroscientist explains why the "disease model" of addiction is wrong and illuminates the path to recovery. The psychiatric establishment and rehab industry in the Western world have branded addiction a brain disease. But in The Biology of Desire, cognitive neuroscientist and former addict Marc Lewis makes a convincing case that addiction is not a disease, and shows why the disease model has become an obstacle to healing. Lewis reveals addiction as an unintended consequence of the brain doing what it's supposed to do-seek pleasure and relief-in a world that's not cooperating. As a result, most treatment based on the disease model fails. Lewis shows how treatment can be retooled to achieve lasting recovery. This is enlightening and optimistic reading for anyone who has wrestled with addiction either personally or professionally.

Addiction and Devotion in Early Modern England

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Author : Rebecca Lemon
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812294815
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Addiction and Devotion in Early Modern England written by Rebecca Lemon and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2018-02-02 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rebecca Lemon illuminates a previously-buried conception of addiction, as a form of devotion at once laudable, difficult, and extraordinary, that has been concealed by the persistent modern link of addiction to pathology. Surveying sixteenth-century invocations, she reveals how early moderns might consider themselves addicted to study, friendship, love, or God. However, she also uncovers their understanding of addiction as a form of compulsion that resonates with modern scientific definitions. Specifically, early modern medical tracts, legal rulings, and religious polemic stressed the dangers of addiction to alcohol in terms of disease, compulsion, and enslavement. Yet the relationship between these two understandings of addiction was not simply oppositional, for what unites these discourses is a shared emphasis on addiction as the overthrow of the will. Etymologically, "addiction" is a verbal contract or a pledge, and even as sixteenth-century audiences actively embraced addiction to God and love, writers warned against commitment to improper forms of addiction, and the term became increasingly associated with disease and tyranny. Examining canonical texts including Doctor Faustus, Twelfth Night, Henry IV, and Othello alongside theological, medical, imaginative, and legal writings, Lemon traces the variety of early modern addictive attachments. Although contemporary notions of addiction seem to bear little resemblance to its initial meanings, Lemon argues that the early modern period's understanding of addiction is relevant to our modern conceptions of, and debates about, the phenomenon.

The Answer to Addiction

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Author : John Burns
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Answer to Addiction written by John Burns and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Gluttony : The Seven Deadly Sins

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Author : Francine Prose
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780199760688
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (66 download)

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Download or read book Gluttony : The Seven Deadly Sins written by Francine Prose and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2003-09-11 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In America, notes acclaimed novelist Francine Prose, we are obsessed with food and diet. And what is this obsession with food except a struggle between sin and virtue, overeating and self-control--a struggle with the fierce temptations of gluttony. In Gluttony, Francine Prose serves up a marvelous banquet of witty and engaging observations on this most delicious of deadly sins. She traces how our notions of gluttony have evolved along with our ideas about salvation and damnation, health and illness, life and death. Offering a lively smorgasbord that ranges from Augustine's Confessions and Chaucer's Pardoner's Tale, to Petronius's Satyricon and Dante's Inferno, she shows that gluttony was in medieval times a deeply spiritual matter, but today we have transformed gluttony from a sin into an illness--it is the horrors of cholesterol and the perils of red meat that we demonize. Indeed, the modern take on gluttony is that we overeat out of compulsion, self-destructiveness, or to avoid intimacy and social contact. But gluttony, Prose reminds us, is also an affirmation of pleasure and of passion. She ends the book with a discussion of M.F.K. Fisher's idiosyncratic defense of one of the great heroes of gluttony, Diamond Jim Brady, whose stomach was six times normal size. "The broad, shiny face of the glutton," Prose writes, "has been--and continues to be--the mirror in which we see ourselves, our hopes and fears, our darkest dreams and deepest desires." Never have we delved more deeply into this mirror than in this insightful and stimulating book.

Alcohol, Addiction and Christian Ethics

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Author : Christopher C. H. Cook
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139454978
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Alcohol, Addiction and Christian Ethics written by Christopher C. H. Cook and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-05-04 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Times Index

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1768 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Times Index written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 1768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indexes the Times, Sunday times and magazine, Times literary supplement, Times educational supplement, Times educational supplement Scotland, and the Times higher education supplement.

The British Journal of Inebriety (alcoholism and Drug Addiction)

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The British Journal of Inebriety (alcoholism and Drug Addiction) written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains papers read at the quarterly meetings of the society, and extracts from the discussions following them with other communications dealing with alcohol and alcoholism