Few matters produce more public interest and public anxiety than sex and religion. MacCulloch’s historical journey through Christian understandings of sex, gender and the family seeks to calm fears and encourage understanding through the three-thousand-year-long tale of Christians encountering sex, gender and the family, with noises off from their sacred texts. It highlights the glorious complexity and sheer contradictions in Christian history.
Diarmaid MacCulloch is Emeritus Professor of the History of the Church, Oxford University. His History of Christianity: the first three thousand years won the 2010 Cundill Prize; he was knighted in 2012. His latest book is Sex and the Church, which appeared in 2024.
