Washington Examiner: Review of Diarmaid MacCulloch’s ‘Lower Than the Angels: A History of Sex and Christianity’
Review of Diarmaid MacCulloch’s ‘Lower Than the Angels: A History of Sex and Christianity’
When he was a small boy, Diarmaid MacCulloch's parents used to drive him round historic churches. Little did they know that they had created a monster, with the history of the Christian Church ...
LOWER THAN THE ANGELS: A History of Sex and Christianity. By Diarmaid MacCulloch. Viking. 688 pages. $40. In matters of faith and its practice, voices of moderation are seldom well-received, let alone ...
Historian Diarmaid MacCulloch, the prize-winning Oxford emeritus professor behind several books and popular BBC series, suspects his often-surprising new book, Lower than the Angels: A History of Sex ...
A leading church historian and television presenter from Oxford has received a knighthood in the New Year Honours. Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch is best known for his six-part BBC television series, A ...
In “Lower Than the Angels,” the historian Diarmaid MacCulloch traces two millenniums of libidinal frustration. An 18th-century painting depicts the resurrected ...
"Adam and Eve Expelled From Eden," engraving by Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld ( - ) (Getty Images) MacCulloch declares that “there is no such thing as a Christian theology of ...
Historian MacCulloch (Christianity) notes in this sweeping study of Christian sexuality that the teachings of Jesus contain numerous heterodox statements regarding sex and gender. These include his ...
Throughout the history of Christianity, silence has been as much a path toward human knowing of God as have vocal proclamations about God. Yet, as acclaimed church historian MacCulloch (A History of ...