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What has religion to do with sex? In conversation with Diarmaid MacCulloch

What has religion to do with sex? In conversation with Diarmaid MacCulloch

Update: 2025-06-03
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One of the major changes in Western society in the last half century is the so-called sexual revolution, and one way of understanding that is to see it as the long, withdrawing roar of a Christian sexual ethic. 

But that makes two presuppositions: first, that we have indeed left Christian sexual ethics behind and second that there is such a thing as a single identifiable Christian sexual ethic.

This week Nick Spencer talks with Diarmaid MacCulloch about his book ‘Lower than the angels: A history of Sex and Christianity' recorded live at the Church Times Festival of Faith and Literature.

Purchase Diarmaid’s book here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Lower-than-Angels-History-Christianity/dp/0241400937

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What has religion to do with sex? In conversation with Diarmaid MacCulloch

What has religion to do with sex? In conversation with Diarmaid MacCulloch

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