Addiction and the Captive Will : A Colloquy between Neuroscience and Augustine of Hippo / Cynthia M. A. Geppert

1st ed

Englisch

London : T&T Clark, 2024

London : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)

2024

1 Online-Ressource (280 pages)

Includes bibliographical references and index

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DOI: 10.5040/9780567713544

Chapter 1 Eternal Questions Part I: The Historical and Philosophical Review of the Models of Addiction Chapter 2 Models and Methods in Addictionology Chapter 3 The Moral Model of Addiction Chapter 4 The Disease Model of Addiction Chapter 5 The Brain Disease Model of Addiction Chapter 6 The Backlash Against the Brain Disease Model and the Rise of Alternative Models Part II: Phenomenology of the Confessions Chapter 7 Books I through IV: Augustine the Lost Seeker Chapter 8 Books V through VII: Augustine's Intellectual Conversion Chapter 9 The Conversion of the Will: Books VIII through IX Chapter 10 The Conversions of Memory: Books X through XIII Part III: Theological Analysis Chapter 11 The Captivity of the Will Chapter 12 Augustine, Sin, and the Models of Addiction Chapter 13 Grace and the Models of Addiction Chapter 14 The Colloguium between Augustine and Addiction Bibliography Index

*Augustine, of Hippo -- Saint -- 354-430 ; Addicts -- Psychology ; Christianity ; Substance abuse -- Religious aspects

*Christian theology ; Religious ethics ; Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church

Twenty-first century neuroscience has discovered that in some severe cases, addiction may so constrain human freedom that the will is only able to choose to use substances of abuse. At this advanced stage, substance use has become the primary driver of salience, co-opting and subsuming other moral priorities and human rewards. Scholars have investigated Aristotle's concept of akrasia as an ancient mirror of this understanding and there have been some preliminary discussions of Augustine's concept of the divided will as it bears on addiction. No detailed and comprehensive exploration of the work of Augustine has yet been undertaken as it relates to three contemporary models of addiction: the choice, learning, and brain disease models. Augustine's psychological awareness, his mastery of ancient theological and philosophical thinking, and his enormous and enduring influence on both Catholic and Protestant theology, make him an ideal subject for such research. This incisive book argues that Augustine's doctrine of the captive will offers a theological parallel of each of these contemporary models of addiction

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