The Song of Songs in Monastic Interpretation @LumenChristiInt

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A lecture by Fr. Joseph Van House (Our Lady of Dallas Cistercian Abbey).

The Song of Songs is the Bible’s treasure-house of love poetry, a cycle of songs sung between a man, a woman, and their friends, lush with the imagery of nature and of intense human longing. In it the name of God nowhere to be seen; believers have always, however, cherished it as a figurative representation of the ideal love between God and humanity; indeed, one of history’s most forceful movements for Christian celibacy – the Cistercian renewal of the twelfth-century – was famous for tending to treat the Song of Songs as the very heart of the Bible. This challenges us with the following very basic question: what does it mean to speak of God in romantic terms?

Part of a webinar series on "Wisdom from the Heart of the Cistercian Tradition," co-presented by the Lumen Christi Institute and Our Lady of Dallas Cistercian Abbey.

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