What are the Oxford Group 4 absolutes?
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The Four Absolutes are Honesty, Purity, Unselfishness, and Love. These are guides to keep you in tune with God’s will in your life.
Are the 4 absolutes in the big book?
Why the 4 Absolutes are not specifically mentioned in the AA Big Book: In the early 1930’s the Oxford Group fell into disfavor. So, when Bill W. broke away from the Oxford Group to create what is now known as AA, he deliberately set out to distance AA from the controversial Oxford Group.
What are the principles of the Oxford Group?
The Oxford Group is founded upon the 4 absolutes: Love, purity, honesty and unselfishness. These 4 absolutes are Christian principles for healthy living that help us to become more acquainted with God.
Where did the 4 absolutes come from?
The Four Absolutes can be traced back to the turn of the 20th Century in a book by Robert Elliot Speer entitled ‘ The principles of Jesus’ and were seen as a set of moral principles that would loosely define spirituality. These principles were adopted by ‘The Oxford Group’ in the early 20th century.
Why did the Oxford Group fail?
The oxford groups failed because they where aggressively evangelical they set out to save the world. They talked about absolutes and purity and had a highly coercive authority.
What absolutes are there?
Only an almighty being like God can define the Absolute Truth. Humans on their own can only come up with relative truths….Here are 9 absolutes:
- Do no harm except in self-defense.
- Keep your commitments and contracts.
- Friction and gravity.
- Geometry and math.
- Chemical chart.
- Universal constants.
- Do justice.
- The Golden Rule.
What were the original 6 Steps of AA?
From “Bill Wilson and how the A.A. message reached the world”:
- We admitted that we were licked, that we were powerless over alcohol.
- We made a moral inventory of our defects or sins.
- We confessed or shared our shortcomings with another person in confidence.
- We made restitution to all those we had harmed by our drinking.
What are the four absolutes of quality defined by Crosby?
Throughout his work, Crosby’s thinking was consistently characterised by four absolutes: The definition of quality is conformance to requirements. The system of quality is prevention. The performance standard is zero defects. The measurement of quality is the price of non-conformance.