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Rx for Gluttony

Even Christian diet experts rarely talk about it anymore. But the early monks did, and for good reason.

By Dennis Okholm | posted 8/28/00 | posted 9/04/2000 12:00AM

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Dennis Okholm is a professor of theology at Wheaton College and a contributor to Limning the Psyche: Explorations in Christian Psychology, Robert C. Roberts, Mark R. Talbot, eds. (Eerdmans, 1997), which contains a fuller version of this article.

Related Elsewhere

Read more about monk John Cassian and his study of the seven deadly sins.

The seven deadly sins Web site includes a page of quotes about gluttony and a recipe for Double Peanut Butter Paisley Brownies.

Both Dallas Willard'sThe Spirit of the Disciplines and Richard Foster'sCelebration of Discipline are available from the Christianity Online bookstore.

New Advent, a Roman Catholic site, has excerpts from the Catholic Encyclopedia and Thomas Aquinas's Summa Theologicaon gluttony.

Previous Christianity Today articles about gluttony and fasting include:

The Weigh and the Truth | What deeper messages are diet programs sending about faith and fitness? (Aug. 25, 2000)

Hungry for God | Why more and more Christians are fasting for revival. (April 15, 1999)

How Healthy Is Fasting? | Physicians and clergy alike say fasting is as good for the body as it is for the soul. (April 15, 1999)

The Fatted Faithful | Why the church may be harmful to your waistline. (Jan. 11, 1999)

Adventures in Fasting | I tried fasting, and instead of insights I got irritable. (March 2, 1998)

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