Diarmaid MacCulloch on Christianity, Sex, and Unsettling Settled Facts

Conversations with Tyler is produced by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, bridging the gap between academic ideas and real-world problems. Learn more at Mercatus.org. For a full transcript of every conversation, enhanced with helpful links, visit conversationswithtyler.com. Hello everyone and welcome back to Conversations with Tyler. Tyler.

Today I am here with Dermud McCulloch. He has a new book out, Lower Than the Angels, A History of Sex and Christianity, which I recommend very highly. In fact, all of his books are excellent. He is one of those historians where each and every book he has done is worth reading. He is Emeritus, professor of the history of the Church at Oxford, and now a senior research fellow at Oxford.

Dermud, welcome. Thank you very much. Nice to be here. In the history of the West and the world more generally, why does it seem that monotheistic religion and monogamy are so closely correlated? A good question.

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