Alcohol, addiction and Christian ethics

Publication Data

• Title Alcohol, addiction and Christian ethics
• Author Christopher C. Cook
• Publisher Cambridge University Press
• Publication date 2006
• Publication location Cambridge
• Language English

Contents

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

Topics

• Alcoholism :: Religious aspects :: Christianity
• Christian ethics
• Compulsive behavior :: Religious aspects :: Christianity
• Substance abuse :: Religious aspects :: Christianity

Alcohol, addiction and Christian ethics by Christopher C. Cook. ISBN 9780521851824. Published by Cambridge University Press in 2006. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.