Eros and Allegory

Medieval Exegesis of the Song of Songs

AvDenys Turner

Häftad, Engelska, 1995

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Beskrivning

For centuries male celibates have described, expressed, and celebrated their love of God in the language of sex, most prolifically and characteristically in a thousand years' commentarial tradition on the Song of Songs. After analysing the tradition, its logic and its imagery, Turner provides translations of commentaries by Gregory the Great, Alcuin of York, Hugh of Saint Victor, William of Saint-Thierry, Alan of Lille, Thomas of Perseigne, Thomas Galus, Thomas Aquinas, Giles of Rome, Nicholas of Lyra, Denys the Carthusian, and John of the Cross.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:1995-11-01
Mått:140 x 216 x 27 mm
Vikt:599 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Cistercian Studies Series
Antal sidor:472
Förlag:Liturgical Press
ISBN:9780879079567

Utforska kategorier

Biblar inom Filosofi och religion
Religion: allmänt inom Filosofi och religion
Kristendom inom Filosofi och religion

Innehållsförteckning

Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 9Abbreviations 11Foreword by Bernard McGinn 13Preface 17I EROS AND ALLEGORY1 Why Eros? 25The Texts 29Why the Song? 38Why Eros? 412 Eros and Ecstasy 47Creation as Ecstasy 47The Problem of Creation 49Cataphatic and Apophatic Theology 53The Dialectics of Eros 56The Metaphysics of Eros 643 Pseudo-Denys and the Latin Song Commentators 714 Eros and Allegory 83The Song’s mis-en-scene 83Eros and Salvation History 85The Four ‘Senses’ of Scripture 89Metaphor: Literal’ or ‘Allegorical’? 92Allegory and Typology 99Allegory and the Literal Sense 108The Literal Sense of the Song: Three Solution 1135 The Logic of Typology 127Physiological Analogies 127Eros as Analogy 131‘Image’ and “Likeness’ 139Image and Formal Type 1496 From Allegory to Imagery 159The Language of Eros: Bernard and Denys 160The Disintegration of the Hermeneutic 1687 John of the Cross and the Latin Tradition 175John and Dionysian neo-Platonism 176John and the Song Tradition 185The Nemesis of Formalism 191Conclusion 196II TEXTS ON THE SONG OF SONGS1 The Vulgate Text of the Song 1, 1-8 and Translation 2022 John of the Cross, The Spiritual Canticle 2053 Gregory the Great, Exposition of the Song of Songs 2154 Alcuin of York, Compendium on the Song of Songs 2575 Hugh of Saint Victor, Introductory Notes on the Scripture and on the Scriptural Writers 2656 William of Saint Thierry, A Brief Commentary on the Song of Songs 275 7 Alan of Lille, A Concise Explanation of the Song of Songs in Praise of the Virgin Mary 2918 Thomas of Perseigne, Commentary on the Song of Songs 3099 Thomas Gallus (Vercellensis), Commentary on the Song of Songs 31710 Thomas Aquinas, Quodlibetal Question 7, Question 6, On the Senses of Sacred Scripture 34111 Giles of Rome, Exposition on the Song of Songs 35712 Nicholas of Lyra, First Prologue to the Postillae Litterales, Second Prologue to the Postillae Litterales, Prolugue to the Postillae Morales seu Mysticae Postilla on the Song of Songs 38113 Denys the Carthusian, Commentary on the Song of Songs 411Select Bibliography 449Index 459