Two strands of teaching on love, sex and the body
STRAND ONE: a good gift to be enjoyed
In the last few posts we’ve sketched how the Song of Songs does not need to be interpreted allegorically in order to have a rich theology of love, sex and the body (somatology). It is a celebration of an exclusive, monogamous, heterosexual union of husband and wife in a relationship of intimacy, joy, play, and love. We might say that it is a picture of idealised love between an archetypal couple.
This, if you like, is strand one of the Judeo-Christian…
