{"id":8395,"date":"2019-07-03T00:47:30","date_gmt":"2019-07-03T05:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=8395"},"modified":"2019-07-01T17:52:23","modified_gmt":"2019-07-01T22:52:23","slug":"addiction-and-virtue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=8395","title":{"rendered":"ADDICTION AND VIRTUE"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><strong>I began this book on a few occasions, but abandoned it due to other pressing reading.\u00a0 I&#8217;m glad I came back to it and read it in its entirety.<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>If you want to get a fresh (and ancient!) take on addiction, philosopher Kent Dunnington has produced the right book.\u00a0 Using folks like Aristotle and Aquinas the author charts a fresh way to understand addictions.\u00a0 He points to the ancient idea of habits as a way &#8220;beyond&#8221; models that hold to either disease or choice as the culprits. \u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>There is much food for thought in this taut and well-reasoned book.<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Addiction and Virtue: Beyond the Models of Disease and Choice (Strategic Initiatives in Evangelical Theology)\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"625\" height=\"550\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"clipboard-write\" style=\"max-width:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/read.amazon.com\/kp\/card?asin=B0F645MWMD\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I began this book on a few occasions, but abandoned it due to other pressing reading.\u00a0 I&#8217;m glad I came back to it and read it in its entirety. If you want to get a fresh (and ancient!) take on addiction, philosopher Kent Dunnington has produced the right book.\u00a0 Using folks like Aristotle and Aquinas [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[148,90,43,111,94,115],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-addiction","category-character","category-christianity","category-emotions","category-encouragement","category-psychology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8395"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8397,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8395\/revisions\/8397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}