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From its recorded beginning before Christ, this biblical poem was
widely, and in fact exclusively, interpreted both by Jews and
Christians as a hymn of God's passionate love for his chosen
people. The Song of Songs is however a mysterious book, and the
more modern reading of it as a celebration of human erotic love has
largely displaced this older interpretation. Here, the author
presents a contemporary mystical reading, with reference to some
later Christian poetry, including John Donne, George Herbert and R.
S. Thomas.
Strike the Cloud presents the teaching of the 14th century
spiritual classic The Cloud of Unknowing in a contemporary form,
through selecting and commenting on its main themes. It explores
how The Cloud has been adapted by contemporary teachers of
contemplative prayer, and outlines ways in which it is relevant to
the bigger ecumenical and interfaith picture of today.
The product of an international, multi-disciplinary conference at
Queen's University Belfast, the two-volume Friends and Foes series
offers an illuminating investigation of the relationship between
friendship and conflict by established and emerging scholars. In
this first volume, which collects together philosophical and
cultural essays on the topic, the authors raise and tackle some of
the most pertinent issues central to the understanding, and making,
of friendship. What constitutes friendship? What challenges, duties
and pleasures does friendship entail? The ambiguity of friendship
is a recurring theme in the book, and Mark Vernon's essay on the
philosophical history of thinking about friendship's ambiguity
provides the perfect point of entry for discussion of the
compelling literary and theatrical representations which follow, in
the work of writers such as Maria Edgeworth, Gregory Burke, and
Edgar Allan Poe.
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