Diarmaid MacCulloch - Christianity and sex: what can history tell us? (Thurs 24th July 11.00am)
Religion and sex are inextricably tangled in politics across our contemporary world, often in toxic ways, and the long history of that tangle in the Christian world has been fatally simplified and misunderstood. Diarmaid MacCulloch, drawing on his recent book Lower than the Angels, seeks to set up ways of understanding the past that may help us calm present-day fears. He shows how crucial were Europe's religious and social changes in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in shaping the ways in which we look at sexuality and families in our own age: part of the extraordinarily varied saga of Christian attitudes to sex over the centuries.
Diarmaid MacCulloch is Emeritus Professor of the History of the Church at Oxford, Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford and of Campion Hall, Oxford and was knighted in the UK New Year’s Honours List (2012). A tv presenter and prize-winning author of History of Christianity: the first three thousand years . Among other books, Thomas Cromwell: a Life ( 2018) and Lower than the Angels: a History of Sex and Christianity (2024).
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Religion and sex are inextricably tangled in politics across our contemporary world, often in toxic ways, and the long history of that tangle in the Christian world has been fatally simplified and misunderstood. Diarmaid MacCulloch, drawing on his recent book Lower than the Angels, seeks to set up ways of understanding the past that may help us calm present-day fears. He shows how crucial were Europe's religious and social changes in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in shaping the ways in which we look at sexuality and families in our own age: part of the extraordinarily varied saga of Christian attitudes to sex over the centuries.
Diarmaid MacCulloch is Emeritus Professor of the History of the Church at Oxford, Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford and of Campion Hall, Oxford and was knighted in the UK New Year’s Honours List (2012). A tv presenter and prize-winning author of History of Christianity: the first three thousand years . Among other books, Thomas Cromwell: a Life ( 2018) and Lower than the Angels: a History of Sex and Christianity (2024).
Book signing available
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