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Program: Diarmaid MacCulloch's history of morality and sex

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Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch's traces the complex and contradictory origins of Christian moral attitudes to sex and sexuality, from 3000 years ago, to now. 

Guest: Diarmaid MacCulloch, Emeritus Professor of the history of the church at Oxford University, author of Lower than the Angels: A history of Sex and Christianity

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The Three Angels, from the Story of Abraham, Cathedral of St Stephen, Halberstadt, Germany

Religion and Spirituality, Sexuality
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