Diarmaid MacCulloch

Lower than the Angels  

Starts at: Monday 21 October 6:00 PM
Finishes at: Monday 21 October 7:00 PM

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Why does much of the contention and division across the world centre on sexual topics? Could it be because one-third of the global population is Christian in background or outlook? The Bible observes that God made humanity ‘for a little while lower than the angels.’ If humans are considered so close to angels, where is the difference? Is it human sexuality?

In a single lifetime, Christian societies have witnessed an extraordinary about-turn in attitudes to sex and gender. For many this has brought exciting liberation. For others, fury and fear. 

Diarmaid MacCulloch, award-winning writer and Emeritus Professor of the History of the Church at Oxford University, seeks to calm fears and encourage understanding through telling a 3000-year-long tale of Christians encountering sex, gender and the family, with noises off from their sacred texts. The message is simple: pay attention to the glorious complexity and contradictions in Christianity and decide whether there is a single theology of sex, or many contending voices in a symphony not yet complete.