Lower than the Angels - A History of Sex and Christianity

This book by Oxford''s Emeritus Professor of the History of the Church 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. It beckons us to pay attention to the sheer glorious complexity and contradictions in the history of Christianity, an epic of ordinary and extraordinary Christians trying to make sense of themselves and of humanity''s deepest desires, fears and hopes.<>

A propos de l'auteur

Diarmaid MacCulloch is Emeritus Professor of the History of the Church at Oxford University, and Fellow of St Cross College and of Campion Hall. His Thomas Cranmer (1996) won the Whitbread Biography Prize, the James Tait Black Prize and the Duff Cooper Prize; Reformation: Europe's House Divided 1490-1700 (2004) won the Wolfson Prize and the British Academy Prize. A History of Christianity (2010), which was adapted into a six-part BBC television series, was awarded the Cundill and Hessell-Tiltman Prizes. He was knighted in 2012 and was awarded the Norton Medlicott Medal by the Historical Association in 2022.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Diarmaid MacCulloch, MacCulloch Diarmaid
• Edition: Penguin Books Uk
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Poche format B
• Sortie: 18.09.2025
• EAN: 9780141990958
• ISBN: 978-0-14-199095-8
• Pages: 688
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 198 mm x 31 mm
• Catégories: Ecole et pédagogie > Lectures/interprétations/auxiliaires de lecture > Anglais; Littérature spécialisée > Histoire > Autres; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / General, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, RELIGION / Christianity / History, PSYCHOLOGY / Human Sexuality, RELIGION / Psychology of Religion, RELIGION / Christianity / Denominations, History of Religion, Christian Churches & denominations, Christian Churches, denominations, groups, Social and cultural history, Religious and theocratic ideologies, Psychology: sexual behaviour, Religious aspects of sexuality, gender and relationships, RELIGION / Christian Living / Family & Relationships, Sexual Behaviour, Religious & theocratic ideologies, Christian aspects of sexuality, gender & relationships