Diarmaid MacCulloch's 'Lower Than the Angels' explores Christianity's sexual revolutions

Church historian Diarmaid MacCulloch's new book 'Lower Than the Angels' (German: 'Niedriger als die Engel') narrates the history of Christianity as a sequence of sexual and anti-sexual revolutions. The book ends on an open note, leaving the future of Christian sexual morality uncertain. MacCulloch argues that there is no single Christian sexual morality, but rather a series of contested and evolving positions. The work is described as 'famous' (famosen) and offers a revisionist account of how Christian attitudes toward sex have shifted over centuries, from early Church fathers to modern debates. The review appears in Süddeutsche Zeitung, a major German newspaper.