Sarah Williams is Research Professor of Church History at Regent College. Previously, she held research and teaching positions at the University of Birmingham, Harris Manchester College at Oxford, and Lincoln College at Oxford. She is author of Religious Belief and Popular Culture, The Shaming of the Strong, and co-author of Redefining Christian Britain. She has written a number of articles and reviews for academic journals such as Past and Present, The Urban History Yearbook, The Journal of Victorian Culture, The Journal of the Oral History Society, Archives De Sciences Sociales Des Religions, and The Journal of Nineteenth Century Studies. She has contributed to European Religion in the Age of Great Cities (Hugh McLeod ed.), and worked on a collaborative research project that was published as Women, Gender and Religious Cultures in Britain, 1800-1940.
MARRIAGE, SEX, AND FAMILY IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
Speaker(s): Sarah Williams
Date: Summer 2019
Length: 15h52m
Product ID: RGDL4920S
Purchase Options:
MP3 Download - $64.99 | |
MP3 CD - $79.99 | |
CD - $89.99 |
Description
From the early church to the present day, this course traces major historical shifts in cultural understandings of gender, sexuality, marriage and the family. We will explore how Christian belief and practice have shaped these categories over time and how at different moments in time Christians have engaged with culture over these issues. By design the course offers a broad-ranging historical overview to enable students to explore key changes in cultural perceptions of gender, sexuality, marriage and the family alongside economic shifts, political philosophies, changes in legislation, technology, social changes in childbirth and parenthood, scientific discourse and the emergence of feminism, individualism and the modern state. In providing a thematic historical framework, this course aims to equip students with deeper insight into present-day debates surrounding sexual identity, gender fluidity and same-sex marriage and to offer a repertoire of language for sensitive missional engagement with these themes in the post-modern context both inside and outside the Church.
Listen to a clip of this course recording here.
See All Audio by Sarah Williams
Related Audio
A Sexual Reformation? Marriage and Sexuality in the Contemporary Paradigm
Speaker: Sarah Williams
Ancient Wisdom for Contemporary Life: Studies in Proverbs
Speaker: Bruce Waltke, V. Phil Long
Becoming Human, Becoming Persons: The Principles and Practices of Spiritual Direction
Speaker: James Houston
CITM Living The Balance: Faith, Work & Relationship
Speaker: Paul Williams, Andy Parrett, Andy Perrett, … (see details for all)
Family Ties That Bind: Looking at Family of Origin Joys & Sorrows
Speaker: Paddy Ducklow
Forming Children in Faith: How the Whole Community Raises the Church's Children
Speaker: Marva Dawn
Friendship, Love, & Desire in Medieval Christian Spirituality (CTC I Fall 2005)
Speaker: James Houston
Gender Studies Forum: Towards A More Excellent Way
Speaker: Ian Panth, Maxine Hancock, Robert Derrenbacker, … (see details for all)
Gender, Participation & Silence in the Language Classroom: Sh-shushing the girls
Speaker: Allyson Jule
Gender, Sexuality and Community
Speaker: Gordon Fee, Iain Provan, Miriam Adeney, … (see details for all)
Generation to Generation: Passing on the Faith to the Children of the Church
Speaker: Gordon Smith
Human Trafficking: Power Abused thru Gender (REED) (Chapel Winter 2007)
Speaker: Michelle Miller
Male & Female in God's Image
Speaker: Allyson Jule, Bruce Waltke, Gordon Fee, … (see details for all)
Old Testament Difficulties - Violence, Sexuality, and Origins
Speaker: Tremper Longman
Pastoral Care
Speaker: Darrell Johnson, Paddy Ducklow, Rod Wilson, … (see details for all)
Regent College Retreat 2014 - Identity Theft: Slogan, Catchphrase, or Dangerous Reality?
Speaker: Rod Wilson
Reordering Desire: Augustine, Queer Theory, and Christian Sexual Ethics
Speaker: Wesley Hill
The Image of God, Gender and Reflection on Post-Modern Attitudes on Marriage
Speaker: Darrell Bock
The Meaning of Marriage: A Defining Moment in Canadian Society
Speaker: Douglas Farrow
The Outcast's Voice: Josephine Butler and the Sexual Double Standard
Speaker: Amanda Russell-Jones