Study Guide to the AA Big Book
Saturday July 19, 2003
Ken W. has written a study guide to the book Alcoholics Anonymous -- also known as the Big Book -- which is dedicated to those who want recovery from alcoholism, but have difficulty with the word "God." The book is available free online, or printed copies are available.
More: Big Book Study Guide | Printed Copies Available
More: Big Book Study Guide | Printed Copies Available
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Ken W’s ‘Study Guide to the AA Big Book’ commences with the core statement “There is universal acceptance of the “three letter word God” as being “the source of all knowledge and the power of that knowledge”. It is the foundation of this 500 page study guide, which then sets out to relate it AA’s programme of recovery.
This is unfortunate. The chosen definition of God is not “universally accepted” and takes the reader down a narrow corrider of spiritual concepts to Christian dogma (not unlike the Big Book itself).
Perhaps the Buddhists’ suggestion of substituting ‘Good’ for ‘God’ had more merit than was recognised at the time the Big Book was being edited?