In unrivalled poetic language, the Song of Songs explores the whole range of emotions experienced by its two lovers as they work out their commitment to each other, consummated in marriage. The Song's powerful and unabashed affirmation of love, loyalty and earthy sexuality is urgently relevant today, when commercialised eroticism is in, and permanency in relationships is out.
Tom Gledhill argues that beauty, intimacy and sexual consummation are to be celebrated, but not as ends in themselves. Rather, the point to another world, another dimension, only occasionally and dimly perceived. God has chose the love of a man and a woman as an image of his own love of his people.
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Title
The Message of the Song of Songs
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Author(s)
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Series
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ISBN
9781789744439
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Format
Paperback
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Publisher
IVP
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Bible Book
Song of Solomon
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Audience
Church Leaders
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Pages
272
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Published
08/01/2023
