Tolv steg för livet - Doria

302SummaryTwelve steps for life. The Bromma Dialogue and Christian recovery.The Bromma Dialogue is a Christian recovery organization started in1991 that has emerged from a project initiated by the Baptist Union ofSweden. This dissertation studies the Bromma Dialogue’s Christianrecovery from a historical-genetic perspective. In this study, theBromma Dialogue’s recovery has been connected to Christian recovery’sroots, as seen in the Christian Oxford Group and the secular selfhelpmovement Alcoholics Anonymous. These movements’ ideas andpraxis have influenced the Bromma Dialogue. The study’s researchmaterial partially consists of previous research on the roots of Christianrecovery and partially of collected material regarding the Christianrecovery movement and the Bromma Dialogue. The main purposeof this dissertation, to study the Bromma Dialogue and its Christianrecovery, has not previously been researched. Therefore, the investigationof the subject in a scientific context is timely.The Oxford Group was a Christian movement founded during thefirst decade of the 20 th century by Frank Buchman, a minister. Buchman’sown spiritual experiences helped form the movement’s ideology.Buchman was the natural leader for the Oxford Group and garnereda lot of attention from both sympathizers and critics.The Oxford Group’s central and characteristic ideas revolved aroundsharing, which also implied confession as well as witnessing. Throughsharing, a person was able to experience the forgiveness of his/hersins and could, thereafter, for the purposes of missionizing andknown as a life-changer, tell others about his/her conversion. Suchsharing regarding the forgiveness of sins and how one’s life waschanged could occur in small groups or during larger public meetings.New members were recruited through personal contacts. Themovement’s Four Absolutes, absolute honesty, absolute purity, absoluteunselfishness, and absolute love, were stressed as was the guidance of theHoly Spirit during quiet moments, so-named Quiet Time.