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| Title Statement | Lower than the angels: a history of sex and Christianity / Diarmaid MacCulloch. |
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| Alternative Title(s) | History of sex and Christianity |
| Author | MacCulloch, Diarmaid |
| Publication | New York: Viking,2025.©2024 |
| Edition | First United States edition. |
| Extent of Item | xxiv, 660 pages |
| ISBN | 9781984878670 (hardcover) |
| Other Number | pr07820729 |
| General Notes | "First published in hardcover in Great Britain by Allen Lane, part of the Penguin Random House group of companies, Penguin Random House Ltd., London, in 2024." |
| Contents | Setting out --Greeks and Jews (c.1500-300 BCE) --Hellenism meets Judaism(300 BCE-100 CE) -- Jesus the Christ --Paul and the first Christian assemblies(30-60) -- From Jewish sect to Christian churches (c.70-c.200) --Virgins, celibates, ascetics (c.100-c.300) --Suddenly in power(300-600) -- Marriage : survival and variety(300-600) -- Eastern Christianity : enter Islam(600-1200) -- The Latin West : a landscape of monasteries(500-1000) -- Gregory VII and a first sexual revolution(1000-1200) -- Western Christendom established(1100-1500) -- The second revolution : the reformation chasm(1500-1700) -- Enlightenment and choice(1700-1800) -- Revolution and Catholicism rebuilt(1789-1914) -- Global Western Christianity(1800-1914) -- A century of contraception(1900- ) -- Choices and Lady Chatterley(1950- ) -- A story without an ending. |
| Bibliography | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Summary | "A groundbreaking history of sexual emotion, sexual activity, gender relations, marriage and the family--and how Christianity has interacted with this panorama of human concerns Few matters produce more public interest and public anxiety than sex and religion. Much of the political contention and division in societies across the world centres on sexual topics, and one-third of the global population is Christian in background or outlook. The issue goes to the heart of present-day religion. This book seeks to calm fears and encourage understanding through telling a three-thousand-year-long tale of Christians encountering sex, gender, and the family. The message of Lower than the Angels is simple, necessary and timely: to pay attention to the complexity and contradictions in the history of Christianity. The reader can decide from the story told here whether there is a single Christian theology of sex, or many contending voices in a symphony that is not at all complete. Oxford's Emeritus Professor of the History of the Church introduces an epic of ordinary and extraordinary Christians trying to make sense of themselves and of humanity's deepest desires, fears and hopes"-- |
| Subjects & Genres | |
| By Topic | Sex--History |
| Sex--Religious aspects--Christianity | |
