Diarmaid MacCulloch

Nov 27, 2024 | lrb.co.uk | Linda Porter |Diarmaid MacCulloch

Woe​ to royal daughters over the centuries: from the moment of their birth, they were seen as assets to be traded on the international marriage market for the benefit of their families. The bidding for such unions began early, often when the girls were still infants; there would likely be a series of explorations, more or less serious, before one intricate set of negotiations made it to completion.

Sep 13, 2024 | telegraph.co.uk | Rowan Williams |Diarmaid MacCulloch

God made humanity ‘for a while a little lower than the angels’: A miniature from Le livre de Lancelot du Lac (c.

Sep 8, 2024 | msn.com | Diarmaid MacCulloch

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Sep 7, 2024 | penguin.co.uk | Diarmaid MacCulloch

Skip to ContentThe Bible observes that God made humanity ‘for a while a little lower than the angels’. If humans are that close to angels, does the difference lie in human sexuality and what we do with it? 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.

Sep 1, 2024 | literaryreview.co.uk | Diarmaid MacCulloch

Lower Than the Angels is the sort of book one has come to expect from Diarmaid MacCulloch. It is immensely broad in scope, incredibly detailed and enormously readable, with no small measure of humour (some of which might be lost on a non-British readership of a certain age). In five hundred pages of text, MacCulloch traces along diverse and divergent pathways Christianity’s relationship with sex.