From the early church to the present day, this course traces major historical shifts in cultural understandings of gender, sexuality, marriage and the family. In doing so, these lectures 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, these lectures offer 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.