The Song Of Songs And Christology In The Early Church
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Author | : Mark W. Elliott |
Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 215 |
Release | : 2011-06-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 161097154X |
How was the scriptural imagery used in the Song of Songs to speak of the Bridegroom and the Bride? Mark W. Elliott presents a range of interpretations paying attention to the context of the commentators in the Early Church.
Author | : Jr. Norris, Richard A. |
Publisher | : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 2003-11-18 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780802825797 |
The Song of Songs, traditionally attributed to Solomon, is a collection of lyrics that celebrate in earthly terms the love of a bridegroom and a bride. Throughout the course of early Christian history, the Song of Songs was widely read as an allegory of the love of Christ both for the church and for its individual members. In reading the Song this way, Christians were following in the steps of Jewish exegetes who saw the Song as celebrating the love of God for Israel. In The Song of Songs, the inaugural volume of The Church's Bible, Richard A. Norris Jr. uses commentaries and sermons from the church's first millennium to illustrate the original Christian understanding of Solomon's beautiful poem. In recent times, the Song of Songs has been more a focus of literary than of religious interest, but Norris's work shows that for early Christians, this text was counted, with the Psalms and the Gospels, among those Scriptures that touched most deeply on the believer's relation to God. All in all, Norris's Song of Songs is a masterful work that aptly acquaints contemporary readers with the church's traditional way of discerning in this text a guide to the character of Christian belief and life. This volume -- and the entire Church's Bible series -- will be welcomed by preachers, teachers, students, and general readers alike.
Author | : Mark W. Elliott |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9783161586514 |
Mark W. Elliott presents a range of interpretations of the imagery used in the Song of Songs and demonstrates how the figures of the Bridegroom and Bride were understood. He pays attention to the historical context of those commenting on the Song between the councils of Constantinople 381 and Chalcedon 451, including theological disputes and spiritual movements. Showing how they found significance in such an unlikely text leads on to the conclusion that the commentators are largely in agreement that the Song refers to a meeting of the Word of God in his incarnate form, reaching out to all humanity, and the collective humanity, viewed in the obedient responsiveness of a bride. This responsive collective humanity is described variously in terms of 'church', believing soul, soul of Christ and humanity of Christ. Mark W. Elliott selects specifically Christological readings (i.e. those which interpret the Song with reference to the incarnation) and gives some reasons for the demise of such an interpretation and of commentary writing as a whole during that period.Survey of contents1. IntroductionFigures and Images - The Song of Songs: early influences on its interpretation - Exegetical Styles - Setting the scene - The beginnings of Christological deliberation - The Christological Interpretation of the Song - The task ahead 2. Establishing the Context of the Commentators on the Song of SongsHippolytus - Origen (Greek)Methodius - Dionysius of Alexandria - »Athanasius« - Apollinarius - Didymus - Philo of Carpasia - Jerome - Pacianus - Ambrose - Gregory of Elvira - Gregory of Nyssa - Epiphanius - Pseudo-Theophilus of Alexandria - Rufinus and his translation of Origen's Commentary on the Song of Songs (=Rufinus-Origen) - Augustine - Theodoret - Nilus of AncyraCyril of AlexandriaPseudo-Athanasius: Synopsis Scripturae - Apponius 3. The GroomThe way the Song relates to the Incarnation. Cant 1:2 - Myrrh and the Groom's divine spirit. Cant 1:3-4 - The distillation of myrrh as fragrance and the availability of the mind of Christ. Cant 1:12-14; 2:13 - Mutual belonging. Cant 1:7, 10; 2:6, 16; 3:3-4 - The motif of »leaping« and the Incarnation as the Word's descent and ascent. Cant 2:8 - Coronation as the Word's triumphal passion. Cant 3:11 - The Groom's descent. Cant 4:16-5:1 - The Groom's »coming to the door« and manifestation. Cant 5:2-6 - »The body of God«? The Groom's body and the Word's potencies. Cant 5:10-16 - The Cosmic Groom transcendent. Cant 6:9f and beyond - The Cosmic Groom and nature imagery. Cant 8:14 et al 4. The BrideThe Essence of the human Christ. Cant 1:3 - The Bride as a prepared Church-humanity. Cant 1:5-7 - The identity of the purified Bride ascending. Cant 3:6 (and doublet, 8:5) - The »bed« image. Cant 3:7f (with reference to Cant1:16) - The Bride as walled garden and spring. Cant 4:12 - The Bride as the imitator of the Groom. Cant 5:2 and 5:12,14 - The Bride's chosenness as new Jerusalem. Cant 6:4 - The Bride as the perfect human one. Cant 6:8-10 5. Conclusion.
Author | : M. W. Elliott |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1997 |
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Author | : Origen |
Publisher | : Paulist Press |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 1957 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780809102617 |
A monumental project which brings the English-speaking work key selections from the remarkable literature of early Christianity -- veritable treasures of Christian faith and theology in superb translations.
Author | : Os Guinness |
Publisher | : InterVarsity Press |
Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 2015-06-04 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0830898506 |
Our world is changing dramatically, yet many Christians still rely on cookie-cutter approaches to evangelism and apologetics. In his magnum opus, Os Guinness presents the art and power of creative persuasion—the ability to talk to people who are closed to what we are saying. Discover afresh the persuasive power of Christian witness.
Author | : E. Ann Matter |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2010-08-03 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 081220056X |
The Song of Songs, eight chapters of love lyrics found in the collection of wisdom literature attributed to Solomon, is the most enigmatic book of the Bible. For thousands of years Jews and Christians alike have preserved it in the canon of scripture and used it in liturgy. Exegetes saw it as a central text for allegorical interpretations, and so the Song of Songs has exerted an enormous influence on spirituality and mysticism in the Western tradition. In the Voice of My Beloved, E. Ann Matter focuses on the most fertile moment of Song of Songs interpretation: the Middle Ages. At least eighty Latin commentaries on the text survive from the period. In tracing the evolution of these commentaries, Matter reveals them to be a vehicle for expressing changing medieval ideas about the church, the relationship between body and soul, and human and divine love. She shows that the commentaries constitute a well-defined genre of medieval Latin literature. And in discussing the exegesis of the Song of Songs, she takes into account the modern exegesis of the book and feminist critiques of the theology embodied in the text.
Author | : Iain M. Duguid |
Publisher | : InterVarsity Press |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2015-02-13 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0830842861 |
Iain Duguid's Tyndale Old Testament Commentary explains how the Song of Songs is designed to show us an idealized picture of married love. It also convicts us of how far short of this perfection we fall, both as humans and as lovers, and drives us repeatedly into the arms of our true heavenly husband, Jesus Christ.
Author | : Karl Shuve |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 0198766440 |
In this work, Karl Shuve provides a new account of how the Song of Songs became one of the most popular biblical texts in medieval Western Christianity, through a close and detailed study of its interpretation by late antique Latin theologians. It has often been presumed that early Latin writers exercised little influence on the medieval interpretation of the poem, since there are so few extant commentaries from the period. But this is to overlook the hundreds of citations of and allusions to the Song in the writings of influential figures such as Cyprian, Ambrose, Jerome, and Augustine as well as the lesser-known theologian Gregory of Elvira. Through a comprehensive analysis of these citations and allusions, Shuve argues that contrary to the expectations of many modern scholars, the Song of Songs was not a problematic text for early Christian theologians, but was a resource that they mined as they debated the nature of the church and of the virtuous life. The first part of the volume considers the use of the Song in the churches of Roman Africa and Spain, where bishops and theologians focused on images of enclosure and purity invoked in the poem. In the second part, the focus is late fourth-century Italy, where a new ascetic interpretation, concerned particularly with women's piety, began to emerge. This erotic poem gradually became embedded in the discursive traditions of Latin Late Antiquity, which were bequeathed to the Christian communities of early medieval Europe.
Author | : Richard Frederick Littledale |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 490 |
Release | : 1869 |
Genre | : Bible |
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