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authorJoe Carstairs <me@joeac.net>2026-03-24 22:07:31 +0000
committerJoe Carstairs <me@joeac.net>2026-03-24 22:07:31 +0000
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Mark Vernon got me thinking about how the Church’s teaching on sex may be evolving.
-Published on: 17 Dec 2024 updatedDate: 2024-12-17
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I just listened back to Mark Vernon talking about sexual desire and Christian spirituality.
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I’m also currently reading (as is Mark Vernon) Diarmaid MacCulloch’s epic history of Christian sexuality, [Lower Than the Angels][lower-than-the-angels].
-=> https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/313582/lower-than-the-angels-by-macculloch-diarmaid/9780241400937
+=> https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/313582/lower-than-the-angels-by-macculloch-diarmaid/9780241400937
But so far (I’m about a third of the way through and up to about the 5th century) there have only been odd glimmers of positive Christian understandings of sexuality. The overwhelming Christian consensus of the early Church (according to MacCulloch) is that sexual desire is a symptom of humanity’s fallen state, not our longing for God.
So I want to know: what changed between Mark’s experience and mine? How is Christian teaching about sex changing right now? Was my experience typical of other Christians growing up today, in evangelical churches, across the denominational spectrum, across Britain, across the global Church? What *is* the Christian consensus on sex now, and how old is it, and where did it come from?
I guess I’ve got two-thirds of a gigantic tome to work through, first of all. That’ll be a start. Any answers? Postcards please.
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