Reflections: The Tragedy of Addiction

Reflections.

The Tragedy of Addiction, excerpts from "Not the Way It's Supposed to Be: A Breviary of Sin," by Cornelius Plantinga, Jr.

"Master, I am in great distress! The spirits that I conjured up I cannot now get rid of." Goethe, The Sorcerer's Apprentice.

Nowhere is a broader survey more helpful and more needed than it is in the case of sin and addiction. For here the borders are long, disputed, and sometimes indiscernible. Principally, to look at addiction is to look at significant dynamics of sin. Moreover, to discuss addiction is dramatically to raise, once more, the hard questions of human freedom and responsibility in the assessment of human behavior. What we want to explore, most generally, is the relationship between sin and addiction.

Like all sinners, the addict needs spiritual hygiene. For just as sin, addiction, and misery typically go together, so do confession, healing, and the long process of redemption. We need redemption not just from our sins and addictions but also from their miseries - particularly those miseries that occasion more sin and deeper addiction. As all recovering sinners know, this process of healing and liberation, this "converion unto life," this set of lessons to teach us how to dance again, will prove to be as cunning, baffling, powerful, and patient as addiction itself.

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