So You Think You Don't Know One?: Addiction and Recovery in Clergy and Congregations

By Nancy Van Dyke Platt and Chilton R. Knudsen

Book Overview

Unpacking a common, but rarely addressed problem-from the theological dimensions of codependency to treatment of the minister and congregation-clergy experts Platt and Knudsen cite real-life experiences with clergy addiction and congregations in crisis in this ecumenical approach to recovery.

Chapter 1: The Theological Dimensions of Codependency

Chapter 2: How It All Begins: The Seeds of Codependency in a Congregation

Chapter 3: Symptoms of Codependency in the Congregation

Chapter 4: The Minister and Addiction

Chapter 5: Options for Ending the Codependency

Chapter 6: Treatment and Early Recovery

Chapter 7: Change

Chapter 8: Recovery for the Minister and the Congregation

Chapter 9: The Search Process, or, How They Find Each Other

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081922412X
• ISBN13: 9780819224125
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: Morehouse Publishing
• Length: 126 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.7" x 9.0"