Why read Lower than the Angels?

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'A richly entertaining history of the ways in which, for 3,000 years, the church has tied itself in knots over sex (and love and marriage) ... fabulous' Observer

The Bible observes that God made humanity 'for a while a little lower than the angels'. If humans are that close to…

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Jurgen Brauer

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Not only, but perhaps especially in the United States, people seem far more uncomfortable thinking about sexual relations ("sex") than its overt presence in the arts, media, religion, and politics might suggest. The discussion in this book, written by a retired Oxford professor, starts about a thousand years before Christ, to capture the underlying currents of the existing mores of Christ's time. Thus, you get an erudite reading of some 3,000 years of argument about sex and how the evolving church (or rather churches, for there were and are many branches) has struggled to read and interpret its holy scripts…

From Jurgen's 3 favorite reads in 2025.