Song of Songs and the Fashioning of Identity in Early Latin - Christianit

Zusatztext Most accounts of the history of exegesis of the Song of Songs in Western Christianity focus on the commentary tradition, assume that the book's erotic character was a problem to be overcome by imaginative allegorical reading, highlight the theme of the soul's mystical ascent to the divine, and acknowledge the great third-century Alexandrian theologian Origen as the dominant influence on the development of both patristic and medieval interpretations of the Song. In his thorough and often insightful revisionist history of the Song's role in third- and fourth-century Latin debates about ecclesiology and ascetical theology, Karl Shuve successfully challenges previous scholarship on all of those points. As a result, the history of Song exegesis in the patristic West will need to be thoroughly rewritten, and the subsequent history of medieval interpretation will at least need to be inflected with some appropriate nuance. Informationen zum Autor Karl Shuve is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia. Klappentext Dr Shuve offers a comprehensive analysis of the interpretation of the Song of Songs in the Latin-speaking churches of Late Antiquity, showing how it was used by bishops and theologians to illuminate complex problems of identity in relation to liturgical practice, doctrinal definitions, and ideas about the body and sexuality. Zusammenfassung Dr Shuve offers a comprehensive analysis of the interpretation of the Song of Songs in the Latin-speaking churches of Late Antiquity, showing how it was used by bishops and theologians to illuminate complex problems of identity in relation to liturgical practice, doctrinal definitions, and ideas about the body and sexuality.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Karl Shuve, Karl (Assistant Professor of Religious Stud Shuve, Shuve Karl
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 07.04.2016
• EAN: 9780198766445
• ISBN: 978-0-19-876644-5
• Seiten: 258
• Serie: Oxford Early Christian Studies
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Religion/Theologie > Christentum; RELIGION / Christianity / History, RELIGION / Christian Theology / General, RELIGION / Christianity / General, RELIGION / Biblical Studies / General, Theology, Christianity, Christian theology, History of Religion, Criticism and exegesis of sacred texts, The Early Church, Biblical Commentaries, Biblical exegesis & hermeneutics