The Good Book and The Big Book

by Dick B.

The Good Book and the Big Book: A.A.'s Roots in the Bible is the most popular of Dick B.'s 42 titles. It traces the precise A.A. Big Book and 12 Step language that came from the Bible. Christians and AAs alike acclaim this title's thorough review of early A.A. sources showing the Bible's role in A.A.'s recovery ideas. This book demonstrates how God helps alcoholics recover if they want His help.

168 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 1, 1995

Reviews

[Dayna Jackson]

Book for those in recovery. Lots of good history for those who already know some of the AA History.

[Deborah-Ruth]

Honestly, I was so disappointed with this book. When I first saw it as a recommendation after having finished The Basic Text, I was really looking forward to it. I am a Christian and a Bible College/ seminary graduate and also a recovering alcoholic and I thought this would be the perfect book for me. However, I found it extremely poorly written. There were typos and grammatical mistakes all over the place. The writing didn't flow and was very choppy. It basically read as a paragraph, a bunch of old-school KJV texts, and then another paragraph. I also thought the author's main point was pretty underhanded and clearly with an agenda to covert people to his one school of thought. I don't know entirely if anything he said holds weight. It is quite possible that what he said actually was historically the case. At least I know that the Oxford Group was real and their tenets were based upon Puritan Christianity. Beyond that, I am not sure how much of this is made up and how much is factual, but even if it is factual, the way it was presented was uninteresting, boring, and just poor craftsmanship. I wish I could have given this a better review, but unfortunately I cannot. It is not worth your time to read even if you are a practicing Christian in recovery.

[Jo Carol]

way too technical for me.