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Monthly Archives: August 2016
One sex, two sexes, and Christians
The wonderful Twitter just drew my attention to this article I’d missed on the OUP blog when it was published in July: ‘The influence of premodern theories about sex and gender’ by Adrian Thatcher. Thatcher asks great questions about why … Continue reading
Posted in Church of England and gender
Tagged Adrian Thatcher, Bible, binaries, Hesiod, Hippocrates, intersex, one-sex body, Pandora, Thomas Laqueur, transgender, women priests
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Temple prostitution for Christians
Sex in the ancient world: it’s all about temple prostitutes, depraved emperors and orgies, right? Wrong. As readers of this blog will have noticed, now that the Shared Conversations in the Church of England appear to be over, I’ve moved … Continue reading
Posted in Church of England and gender
Tagged AIDS, Athens, Bacchanalia, Bosco Peters, Diana Swancutt, G.E.R. Lloyd, genre, Greece, Ian Paul, idols, King James Bible, lesbians, Livy, monogamy, orgies, pagan, Paris school, Romans 1:26, Romans 1:26-27, Rome, St Paul, temple prostitutes, translations
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