SEX is perhaps the last thing that you would expect Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch to want to write about, especially in relation to the Church. Having grown up in a clerical family, he set off to ...
Diarmaid MacCulloch shows how for centuries the Church has tried to resolve the tension between sacred and profane.
That would certainly be one conclusion to be drawn from Lower than the Angels, Diarmaid MacCulloch’s compelling and encyclopedic survey of the diverse ways in which Christianity has made sense ...
In Lower than the Angels, Diarmaid MacCulloch — emeritus professor at Oxford — offers a history of sex and Christianity that is both confronting and reassuring in its detail and complexity.
Lower than the Angels: A History of Sex and Christianity. By Diarmaid MacCulloch. Allen Lane; 688 pages; £35. To be published in America by Viking in April 2025; $40 The worry was the Virgin Mary ...
(As Diarmaid MacCulloch observed, such reprehensible individuals might tempt one to rechristen the Great Man theory as “the ...
That is what Jesus did. Lower than the Angels: A History of Sex and Christianity by Diarmaid MacCulloch (Allen Lane, £35) is ...
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