The Conversion Of Bill W.: More on the Creator's Role in Early A.a. - Softcover

B., Dick

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1885803907 ISBN 13: 9781885803900

Publisher: Paradise Research Pubns, 2006

Synopsis

A biography of A.A. co-founder Bill Wilson, unlike any previously written. It covers his religious experiences and background in family, youth, as well as his subsequent relationships and activities. The substance of the book's beginning is the conversion and cure of alcoholism of Bill's Grandpa Willie in Vermont; the attendance and involvement of Bill's Wilson grandparents and his Griffith grandparents, as well as his own parents, all in the East Congregational Church in East Dorset, Vermont; then Bill's Bible studies, Sunday School attendance, participation in temperance and revival meetings, and his listening to sermons; then to Bill's daily chapel attendance in Burr & Burton Academy where he was also president of the YMCA; then Bill's first love's YWCA participation and her rearing as the child of a Christian minister; then Bill's marriage to Lois Burnham, a Swedenborgian, and his exposure to the Burnham family's religious ideas; then to Bill's three self-described spiritual experiences--in Newport, on the * Lancaster, and at Westminister Cathetdral; then with Bill's talks with Dr. Silkworth about the healing power of Jesus Christ, the Great Physician; then with Ebby Thacher's decision for Christ and conversion at Calvary Mission and Ebby's explaining to Bill the Dr. Carl Jung theory of conversion as a solution for alcoholism; then Bill's following suit by accepting Christ at the Calvary Rescue Mission altar and proclaiming that he had been born again; then Bill'w trip to Towns Hospital where Bill called on the Great Physician for help and had his "hot flash" conversion experience; then Bill's study of the William James book on conversions and cure of alcoholism in the missions; then Bill's first message that the Lord had been so wonderful curing him of his terrible disease that he just wanted to keep telling others about it; and then the rest of the founding story pertaining to Akron, Sam Shoemaker, and Bill's framing of the Big Book and Twelve Steps

Edition details

• Publisher: Paradise Research Pubns
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1885803907
• ISBN 13: 9781885803900
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 200