By Bill Pittman
The by no means sooner than advised tale of the forces that encouraged the fellowship of Alcoholics nameless. The Roots of Alcoholics nameless is an engaging heritage of remedy for alcoholism that lines society's transferring sentiments in the direction of restoration. writer invoice Pittman uncovers a wealth of recent and engaging information regarding the folk, pursuits and businesses at the back of Alcoholics nameless. Pittman has dug deeply into the early historical past of AA. He has used fresh scholarship at the topic good and performed a mountain of latest learn. the full Alcohol experiences box may still locate this ebook hugely interesting.Penny sales space web page, Rutgers middle for Alcohol reports "A not easy and suggestion scary book."Ernest Kurtz, Ph.D., writer of now not God: A historical past of AA "I like invoice Pittman's authentic method of the years best as much as the start of AA."Ruth Hock Crecellius, invoice Wilson's first secretary "An sincere, exact and readable heritage of AA."Bob Morris, Minneapolis, Minnesota "Complete and informative--a precious publication for somebody within the alcohol reports field."Curtis M., long island urban "Pittman has written a finished and insightful heritage of the evolution of AA."Peter L., Waltham, Massachusetts
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2) What do the Scriptures tell us in regard to wine? The term wine is variously applied in the Bible to the juice of the grape, fermented and unfermented, intoxicating and unintoxicating. There are two modes of interpreting Scripture references to wine. By the one mode, our divine Master made, and the Bible sanctioned, the social use of wine containing poison in an intoxicating proportion. By the other mode, the wine the Bible condemns is the wine with poisoning properties; while the wine, the moderate use of which the Bible approves, and which our Saviour made, was not poisonous, but wholesome.
Our Plymouth facility is designed specifically for youth and families. For more information on Hazelden, please call 1-800-257-7800. org Page iii This book is gratefully dedicated to Patrick Butler Page iv Foreword The Roots of Alcoholics Anonymous is a careful, well-documented history of the original sources of knowledge, inspiration, and wisdom developed by the early members of Alcoholics Anonymous. Over time and through experience, these important ingredients were forged into the basic, now traditional principles and practices that constitute the Fellowship of AA.
At the same Page 17 time, a country that had never been exposed to the use of alcohol would become rapidly intemperate upon introduction of alcohol, because those who would be potentially susceptible to becoming alcoholics would rapidly develop the disease. As Wilson (33) points out, however, this theory does not explain alcoholism in people who have had neither a bad environment during childhood nor a hereditary predisposition to the development of dependencies. Nor did it deal with countries like France and Ireland, with large problems concerning alcoholism and a long history of alcohol use and production.
