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

by Nancy Van Dyke Platt (Author), Chilton R. Knudsen (Author)

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

Appendix