The Song of Songs Through the Ages
The Song of Songs Through the Ages

Author: Annette Schellenberg

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2023-04-27

Total Pages: 522

ISBN-13: 3110750791

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The Song of Songs is a fascinating text. Read as an allegory of God’s love for Israel, the Church, or individual believers, it became one of the most influential texts from the Bible. This volume includes twenty-three essays that cover the Song’s reception history from antiquity to the present. They illuminate the richness of this reception history, paying attention to diverse interpretations in commentaries, sermons, and other literature, as well as the Song’s impact on spirituality, theological and intellectual debates, and the arts.

American Religious Liberalism
American Religious Liberalism

Author: Leigh E. Schmidt

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2012-07-30

Total Pages: 432

ISBN-13: 0253002168

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Religious liberalism in America has often been equated with an ecumenical Protestant establishment. By contrast, American Religious Liberalism draws attention to the broad diversity of liberal cultures that shapes America's religious movements. The essays gathered here push beyond familiar tropes and boundaries to interrogate religious liberalism's dense cultural leanings by looking at spirituality in the arts, the politics and piety of religious cosmopolitanism, and the interaction between liberal religion and liberal secularism. Readers will find a kaleidoscopic view of many of the progressive strands of America's religious past and present in this richly provocative volume.