Affiliation:
1. University of Aberdeen , Aberdeen , United Kingdom
2. Duke University , Durham, North Carolina , USA
Abstract
Abstract
This investigation develops in three steps. First, we seek to complexify the opioid crisis in a way that helps us to see how the issues of misguided desire and misplaced attachments are fundamentally important for a theological account of opioid addiction.1 Second, acknowledging the connections between pain and opioid addiction, we explore some of the ways in which our understanding of pain can influence our understanding of and responses to opioid use. Finally, we offer some tentative reflections on the theological and ecclesial dimensions of the opioid crisis which hold the potential to influence the nature of a Christian response to the issues. Having laid out these steps, we argue for the church’s calling, where she complexifies the narratives about the opioid crisis and provides individuals suffering from opioid use “homeful” encounters with God and the community.
Publisher
Oxford University Press (OUP)
Subject
Philosophy,Religious studies,Medicine (miscellaneous)
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