Join us at the Cathedral with Diarmaid MacCulloch as he explores how three thousand years of constant change have shaped our attitudes towards sexuality and families.

Religion and sex are inextricably tangled in politics across our contemporary world, often in toxic ways, and the long history of that tangle in the Christian world has frequently been fatally simplified and misunderstood. Diarmaid MacCulloch, drawing on his recent book Lower than the Angels, seeks to set up ways of understanding the past that may help us calm present-day fears.  He shows how three thousand years of constant change in Judaism, Christianity and Islam have shaped the ways in which we look at sexuality and families in our own age: part of the extraordinarily varied saga of Christian attitudes to sex over the centuries.

Diarmaid MacCulloch is Emeritus Professor of the History of the Church, and Fellow of St Cross College and of Campion Hall, Oxford University.  His History of Christianity: the first three thousand years won the 2010 Cundill Prize for History and was accompanied by a BBC TV series; he was knighted in 2012.  His latest book (2024) is Lower than the Angels: a History of Sex and Christianity.

Please note, this event is being held at the Cathedral, not in-store. Tickets can be purchased on the Cathedral website, or by clicking here.