Lower Than the Angels by Diarmaid MacCulloch review sex and the church
Briefly

"Jesus never mentioned homosexuals, masturbation or the role of women in social, let alone sacred, life. Yet that hasn't stopped millennia of godly scholars…"
"Diarmaid MacCulloch sets out to show that the source for Christianity's confused teachings on sex, sexuality and gender is its own untidy DNA."
"MacCulloch conceives it as a family of identities, by which he means Roman Catholic, Protestant and Orthodox, as well as a myriad other sects…"
"When the subject for debate is… the precise nature of the Trinity. But introduce human genitalia as the topic under discussion, and the result is slammed doors…"
Read at www.theguardian.com
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