There’s a certain admirable honesty in those rebellious souls who turn away from religion entirely: the preacher’s daughter who gets a lip piercing and declares herself polyamorous, and libertarian ...

In the 19th century, Christianity beganto spread across West Africa less as the result of formal missionary endeavors directed from Europe than because of the enthusiasm of ordinary indigenous ...

In “Lower Than the Angels,” the historian Diarmaid MacCulloch traces two millenniums of libidinal frustration. An 18th-century painting depicts the resurrected ...

Slate receives a commission when you purchase items using the links on this page. Thank you for your support. Lower Than the Angels: A History of Sex and Christianity—the kind of hefty tome inevitably ...

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 ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. Over many centuries, interpretations of the Bible have led kings and elected leaders alike to, among other things, set prohibitions on divorce, criminalize ...

(RNS/ENInews) Leading church historian Diarmaid MacCulloch believes Christianity faces a "bright future" worldwide, but predicts the Roman Catholic church will undergo a major schism over its moral ...

Lower than the Angels: A History of Sex and Christianity. By Diarmaid MacCulloch. Allen Lane; 688 pages; £35. To be published in America by Viking in April 2025; $40 The worry was the Virgin Mary’s ...

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 ...

The lives of our greatest heroes often undermined the gospel they so eloquently preached. In the last year, the greatest challenge to my faith has been reading about the church’s history (mainly from ...

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 ...