Diarmaid MacCulloch shows how for centuries the Church has tried to resolve the tension between sacred and profane.

Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch suggests that other versions may exist ... Likewise, with various excursuses such as to revolutionary France or mainland Europe in the Reformation, this is largely a ...

SEX is perhaps the last thing that you would expect Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch to want to write about, especially in ...

Diarmaid MacCulloch’s thrilling book explores the complexities and contradictions of biblical scholarship and its changing ...

In July this year, an act of iconoclasm rocked St Mary’s cathedral in Linz, Austria. The Crowning, a newly installed sculpture of the Virgin Mary by artist Esther Strauss, depicting Mary in the act of ...

That would certainly be one conclusion to be drawn from Lower than the Angels, Diarmaid MacCulloch’s compelling and encyclopedic survey of the diverse ways in which Christianity has made sense ...

Lower than the Angels: A History of Sex and Christianity. By Diarmaid MacCulloch. Allen Lane; 688 pages; £35. To be published in America by Viking in April 2025; $40 The worry was the Virgin Mary ...

The imposing Reformation Wall stands in the Parc des Bastions, portraying the major figures of the Reformation in the form of huge statues and bas-reliefs. At the centre are John Calvin, William Farel ...

That is what Jesus did. Lower than the Angels: A History of Sex and Christianity by Diarmaid MacCulloch (Allen Lane, £35) is published on Sept 19 ...

But Diarmaid Ferriter argues that, whatever the risks, historical perspective is exactly what we need. His hugely valuable new follow-up to 2004′s The Transformation of Ireland is “an attempt ...