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#106 Diarmaid MacCulloch - Sex and Christianity: a Tumultuous History

59 min • 29 maj 2025

Diarmaid MacCulloch is an English academic and historian, specialising in ecclesiastical history and the history of Christianity. Since 1995, he has been a fellow of St Cross College, Oxford; he was formerly the senior tutor.

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