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How Christianity Learned to Hate Sex: The Development of a Christian Theology, 100-400AD – GI 26 212

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17 February 2027 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm GMT

Tutor: Brian Creese BSc MA

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Date: 17 February 2027
Time:
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Length of Course:
2 Wednesdays
Cost:
£33.75 – £38.25
Reference Code:
GI 26 212
Location:
Ward Street
Guildford, Surrey GU1 4LH
The Guildford Institute
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Overview

Since the days when Jesus walked the paths of Galilee and Judea, the Christian Church has been deeply divided about the fundamental human topics of love and sex. By 400AD a church that had been positive about marriage and childbearing had learned to revere celibacy and virginity above all else. This short course will seek to illustrate the sexual norms of the society Jesus was born into, and explain how a complex and fundamentally mysogynistic theology was created over the following centuries. We will also look at how this had an impact on the following 1000 years of the Western Church.

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    About the Speaker

    Brian Creese

    Brian Creese has been a teacher, video producer, medievalist and academic. He has previously given lectures at The Guildford Institute and ran a course at UCL on Misrepresentation of Data. Brian is a local political activist, keen musician, and former Chair of the Board of Trustees at The Guildford Institute.

    Much of Brian’s career has been focused on education; his first job was as a primary school teacher before spending ten years at UCL Institute of Education working at the National Centre for Adult Numeracy and Literacy. He also spent many years working in TV and video as a writer, producer and sound engineer. His qualifications span the arts and sciences, having both a Physics degree and a Masters in Medieval History.

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