Companion to the Song of Songs in the History of Spirituality

Timothy H. Robinson, Ph.D. (Graduate Theological Union) is Alberta and Harold Lunger Associate Professor of Spiritual Resources and Disciplines at Brite Divinity School at Texas Christian University. His publications include articles on Puritan reception of the Song and the book Edward Taylor’s Sacramental Meditations on the Song of Songs (2011).

• AcknowledgementsAbbreviationsList of FiguresNotes on ContributorsIntroductionTimothy H. Robinson1 Mystical WoundsEastern Patristic Authors on the Song of SongsEmily R. Cain2 “A Garden Enclosed, a Fountain Sealed”The Song of Songs and Ritual Purity in Early Latin ChristianityKarl Shuve3 The Song of Songs in the Early Middle AgesFrom Gregory the Great to the Gregorian ReformHannah W. Matis4 The Cistercian SongReception of Bernard of Clairvaux’s Exegesis in Later Cistercian Interpretations of the Song of SongsCatherine Rose Cavadini5 The Song of Songs as a Call to ActionScholastic Interpretation in the High Middle AgesSuzanne LaVere6 The Song of Songs in Aelred of Rievaulx’s Liturgical PreachingAnn W. Astell7 The Beautiful Men of the Song of Songs?Replacing and Erasing the Female Beloved in Ancient and Medieval Jewish InterpretationJason Kalman8 Women Interpreting the Song of Songs: 1150–1700Bernard McGinn9 Abandonment and Abundance in John of the Cross’s Spiritual CanticleThe Poet as the Writer of New ScriptureMark S. Burrows10 Visual Exegesis of the Song of Songs in European ArtRabia Gregory11 The Banquet of LoveThe Song of Songs in Reformed Sacramental Piety: 1586–1729Timothy H. RobinsonEpilogueChristian Reception of the Song of Songs since 1800Arthur HolderBibliographyIndex