In this post (it’s in the text if you look hard enough) and this post (an ambivalent attitude to sex and the body) we have looked at two reasons why in Church History Christians have defaulted to an allegorical interpretation of the Song of Songs.
So far we moderns may be feeling rather smug at the naive foolishness of our predecessors.
Of course let the text be the text!
Of course the body and sex are to be celebrated and enjoyed!
Not so fast. As we come to the third reason we begin to be faced with some…
