Description: Addiction and the Captive Will : A Colloquy Between Neuroscience and Augustine of Hippo, Hardcover by Geppert, Cynthia; Brock, Brian (EDT); Parsons, Susan F. (EDT), ISBN 0567713520, ISBN-13 9780567713520, Brand New, Free shipping in the US "Conducts a dialogue between the early Christian theologian, Augustine of Hippo, and three modern models of addiction. The choice, learning, and brain disease models of addiction are examined in conversation with Augustine's insight in the Confessions into the mechanism of sin's subversion of the human will, apart from the grace of God. Th argues that Augustine's doctrine of the captive will most closely aligns with the brain disease model of addiction, and that his theology can bring a transcendent dimension both to the neuroscientific understanding of addiction and pathways out of it"--
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Book Title: Addiction and the Captive Will : A Colloquy Between Neuroscience
Number of Pages: 280 Pages
Publication Name: Addiction and the Captive Will : a Colloquy between Neuroscience and Augustine of Hippo
Language: English
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Subject: Theology, Ethics, Christian Theology / General, Christianity / Catholic
Publication Year: 2024
Item Height: 0.6 in
Item Weight: 19.9 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Cynthia Geppert
Item Length: 9.2 in
Subject Area: Religion
Item Width: 6.1 in
Series: T&T Clark Enquiries in Theological Ethics Ser.
Format: Hardcover
