Tag: sex and gender
Review: Lower than the Angels by Diarmaid MacCulloch
Historian Diarmaid MacCulloch offers a calm and thorough history of sex and Christianity in this compendium.
Review: Vile Bodies. The Body in Christian Teaching, Faith and Practice.
Before reading Vile Bodies, I had no idea how alien the ancient understanding of bodies and sex were to ours. These ancient understandings seem risible to us now – and I did laugh many times reading this book – but the consequences of them are no laughing matter.
Review: Queer Holiness
This review appeared in Sofia magazine issue 147, ‘Life for Each’. Queer Holiness, by Charlie Bell. Darton Longman and Todd (London, […]