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Sex and the Church: Christianity v The West

Series 1, episode 3

Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch explores how the offical Christian Church and Western society have moved apart on issues of sex and gender over the last 300 years. The Enlightenment encouraged people to question authority and that included the Church's teachings on sex. In the Victorian age, sex became a subject for scientists to study, instead of a sin for the Church to condemn. And in the mid 20th century, Christians were at the forefront of the successful campaign for the decriminalisation of homosexuality. Does Christian thinking still have anything to teach a secular world about sex?