Sex, Gender and Christianity: A 3,000 Year History, with Diarmaid MacCulloch and Mary Beard (Part Two)
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Welcome to Intelligence Squared, where great minds meet. I'm producer Mia Sorrenti. In this episode we'll return for part two of our recent live event with Damon McCulloch, Emeritus Professor of the History of the Church at Oxford University. McCulloch joined us recently at Union Chapel to discuss Christianity, sex and gender across across history.
He was in conversation with classicist, broadcaster and author Mary Byrd. If you haven't heard part one, do jump back an episode to catch up. For now let's return to the conversation live at Union Chapel in London. I'm going to now ask a a a simple question which I fear it doesn't have a simple answer, which is, okay, um our our our stereotype of early Christianity. is very much in terms of no sex, we're Christians.
And we see that loosely tied to figures, say, of the Virgin Mary, under the fact that Jesus in the Gospels is not married, so far as we know. Do those figures do they help launch that sense of the the high achievers in Christianity should not be indulging in the the life of the flesh? It certainly helps that Jesus is unmarried, but then there are lots of Jewish prophets or in his period who were unmarried.
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