Recreational Drug Use: A Biblical Perspective
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
Changing laws and shifting public opinion have increasingly made recreational drug use acceptable. What guidance does the Bible give for thinking through this issue? What underlying motivations or heart issues lie behind drug use, and what biblical principles apply?
Craig K. Svensson, Dean Emeritus of Pharmacy at Purdue University, unpacks what the Bible says about all kinds of intoxication and reframes the issue around living to please God and reflecting him to the world. Svensson also calls Christians to take seriously our responsibility to follow the laws of the land and to live in step with the life God has called us to in Christ. Full of helpful information, this is a minibook you will want to read and share with many others.
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- Title: Recreational Drug Use: A Biblical Perspective
- Author: Craig K. Svensson
- Series: MiniBooks
- Publisher: New Growth Press
- Print Publication Date: 2023
- Logos Release Date: 2024
- Pages: 24
- Era: era:contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
- Subjects: Drug abuse › Religious aspects--Christianity; Compulsive behavior › Religious aspects--Christianity; Conduct of life › Biblical teaching; Temperance › Biblical teaching
- ISBNs: 9781645073215, 1645073211
- Resource ID: LLS:RCRTNLDRGS
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-07-25T21:49:06Z
Craig K. Svensson, PharmD, PhD, is Dean Emeritus of Pharmacy and Professor of Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology at Purdue University, as well as Adjunct Professor of Pharmacology & Toxicology at the Indiana University School of Medicine. He is an elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists. His research has been supported by the National Institutes of Health, American Heart Association, and the American Cancer Society. An award winning teacher, he has also served as a consultant to the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation. Dr. Svensson received his Doctor of Pharmacy from the University of Maryland and his Doctor of Philosophy from the University at Buffalo. He was selected as a 175th Anniversary Distinguished Alumnus of the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy.
He is the author of over 100 scientific publications and three books, as well as the minibook Recreational Drug Use: A Biblical Perspective and is a contributor to The Christian Counselor's Medical Desk Reference, 2nd Edition.