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Eros and Allegory: Medieval Exegesis of the Song of Songs

Medieval Exegesis of the "Song of Songs"

  • Paperback
  • 471 pages
  • Publisher: Cistercian Publications Inc.,U.S.
  • 14 x 21.6 x 2.7 cm

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Monks and priests - male celibates - have for centuries described, expressed, and celebrated their love for God in the language of sex, most prolifically and characteristically in a thousand-year tradition of theological commentaries on the scriptural Song of Songs. As their allegory for the intimate love between God and man, they chose the most intense human model available - erotic love. After analyzing the tradition, its logic, and its imagery, Denys Turner provides translations of a dozen medieval commentaries never before available in English. From Gregory the Great in the sixth century to John of the Cross in the sixteenth, lovers of God speak in their own words across a thousand years a message as compelling today as it was in the Middle Ages.
Eros and Allegory: Medieval Exegesis of the Song of Songs and Julian of Norwich, Theologian
Julian of Norwich, TheologianEros and Allegory: Medieval Exegesis of the Song of Songs
  • Author

    Denys Turner

  • Book Format

    Paperback / softback

  • Publisher

    Cistercian Publications Inc.,U.S.

  • Published

    November 1995

  • Weight

    600g

  • Page Count

    471

  • Dimensions

    14 x 21.6 x 2.7 cm

  • ISBN

    9780879079567

  • ISBN-10

    0879079568

  • Eden Code

    1168234

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