Exposition on the Song of Songs: Volume 6

by William of Saint-Thierry Abbot of Saint-Thierry

Book Overview

Perhaps no book was more central to medieval spirituality and mysticism," writes Bernard McGinn, "or more problematic to contemporary readers, than the Song of Songs. . . Lingering Victorian attitudes towards the opposition between sex and religion find the Song's frank erotic language embarrassing and even distasteful." But in the twelfth and early thirteenth centuries, the Song of Songs was a favorite book of Cistercian monks. Bernard of Clairvaux,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0879073470
• ISBN13: 9780879073473
• Release Date: November 1970
• Publisher: Liturgical Press
• Length: 169 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.6" x 8.5"