Nick Spencer speaks with Professor Sir Diarmaid MacCulloch. 03/06/2025

One of the major changes in Western society in the last half century is the so–called sexual revolution, and one way of understanding that is to see it as the long, withdrawing roar of a Christian sexual ethic.

But that makes two presuppositions: first, that we have indeed left Christian sexual ethics behind and second, that there is such a thing as a single identifiable Christian sexual ethic.

This week Nick Spencer talks with Diarmaid MacCulloch about his book ‘Lower than the angels: A history of Sex and Christianity’ recorded live at the Church Times Festival of Faith and Literature.

Purchase Diarmaid’s book here.

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