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Gwen Shamblin, founder of the Weigh Down diet, has already been compared to the desert monks because her ideas link physical hunger and spiritual hunger. Now she can be compared to another early church figure, Arius, because her Christology is getting her
Elesha Coffman | posted 8/08/2008 12:33PM
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So what would a homoousios-based diet look like? I have no
idea. I also don't know how much Arian-style doctrine Shamblin would accept,
because all I have to go on is the statement at her Web site. But I bet they
don't recite the Nicene Creed at her new Remnant Fellowship church.
For more information on Arianism and other early church
doctrinal debates, see J.N.D. Kelly's classic Early Christian Doctrines,
Mark Noll's Turning Points (which I highly recommend), and Christian
History issue 51: Heresy in the Early Church.
An article and several links related to Shamblin and the
Weigh Down program can be found at www.ChristianityToday.com/ct/2000/137/53.0.html.
Elesha can be reached at cheditor@ChristianityToday.com.
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