Diarmaid MacCulloch is a professor of the History of the Church at Oxford University. His books include Thomas Cromwell: A Revolutionary Life; Thomas Cranmer: A Life, which won the Whitbread Biography Prize, the James Tait Black Prize, and the Duff Cooper Prize; The Reformation: A History, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Wolfson Prize; and Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years, a New York Times bestseller that won the Cundill Prize in History. A former Anglican deacon, he has presented many highly celebrated documentaries for television and radio. He lives in Oxford, England.
“Both scholarly rigorous and amiably open to the variations of human experience, this enthralls.”—Publishers Weekly, starred review “Well written and thoroughly researched, this comprehensive volume unveils a fascinating history.”—Kirkus Reviews “A comprehensive and richly entertaining history of the ways in which, for 3,000 years, the church has tied itself in knots over sex… MacCulloch is the best kind of scholar.”—The Observer (UK) “Compelling and encyclopedic… MacCulloch is an ideal guide in tracing this story. He writes, as always, with such liveliness and energy.”—The Telegraph (UK) ""Magisterial ... In Lower than the Angels, Diarmaid MacCulloch offers a history of sex and Christianity that is both confronting and reassuring in its detail and complexity, taking biblical scholarship and theological development seriously at the same time as insisting on the historian’s independence. A thrilling read.""—Financial Times