Addiction and Virtue Beyond the Models of Disease and Choice

Name: Addiction and Virtue Beyond the Models of Disease and Choice
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ISBN: 9780830839018

ISBN-10: 0830839011

ISBN-13: 9780830839018

Edition: 2011

Authors: Kent J. Dunnington

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Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Publication date: 7/26/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 199
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

Kent J. Dunnington is assistant professor of philosophy, Greenville College. He holds the Ph.D. in philosophy from Texas A&M, and an M.T.S. in theology from Duke University.



Preface



Addiction and Disease: Science, Philosophy and Theology


Defining Addiction Neurologically


Assessing Risk Genetically


Treating Addiction Medically


Science, Philosophy and Theology



Addiction and Incontinence: Resources in Aristotle


The Paradox of Addiction


Addiction and Incontinence


Sources of Incontinence



Addiction and Habit: Resources in Aquinas


Aquinas on Habit


Habit as a Mediating Category


Kinds and Causes of Habit


Addiction as Habit



Addiction and Intemperance: Sensory Pleasures and Moral Goods


Complex Habits


Addiction and Intemperance



Addiction and Modernity: The Addict as Unwitting Prophet


Aristotle on Habit and Happiness


Modern Arbitrariness


Modern Boredom


Modern Loneliness



Addiction and Sin: Testing an Ancient Doctrine


Sins, Sin and Original Sin


Sin, Addiction and Voluntarism


Sin as a Religious Category



Addiction and Worship: Caritas and Its Counterfeits


Immanence and Transcendence


Aquinas on Charity


Addiction and Charity


Addiction as a Way of Life



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