Twelve Wisdom Steps: Unifying Principles of the 12 Steps of by Andrea Travers

By Andrea Travers

underneath the well known twelve steps of Alcoholics nameless (A.A.) are hid the common ideas of religious perform as they're expressed in conventional religions and knowledge traditions; together with Buddhism, Christianity, Cosmology, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, local American Spirituality, and Taoism. This knowledge expressed itself in a twentieth century stream often called A.A. the aim of this booklet is to make sure that seekers from all religion traditions have a chance to gain and have fun with the universality of transformative non secular practices. We people proportion universal flooring at the present time, regardless of cultural and superficial differences.

In Twelve knowledge Steps: Unifying rules of the 12 Steps of A.A. present in the knowledge Traditions, Rev. Dr. Andrea emphasizes that amid all of the possible certain and detailed non secular expressions and types there's an underlying binding fact wich is shared that promotes a common experience.

This perceptive, enticing paintings demanding situations us to “set our personal conventional and cultural lenses apart and open ourselves to merging what we all know with a brand new realizing of shared principles…at a time in our global once we are trying to find to raised comprehend one another and locate universal flooring on which to relate.”

About the Author
Rev. Dr. Andrea Travers used to be born in big apple, the place she used to be additionally ordained in 2003. other than her doctor's measure in ministry, which she obtained in 2010, she additionally has a bachelor's measure in journalism and a master's measure in mass conversation from the college of Oregon and college of Portland respectively. Married with 3 teenagers, she now lives within the urban of Wilsonville in Oregon together with her family.

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