The Erotic Word.The Erotic Word. By David M. Carr (Oxford, $32). C. points out the opposition in much Christian thought between sexuality and spirituality, leading to phenomena like enforced celibacy and sexual repression. For nearly two millennia Christians (and Jews for that matter) understood the Song of Songs allegorically, but when a literal type of exegesis exegesis Scholarly interpretation of religious texts, using linguistic, historical, and other methods. In Judaism and Christianity, it has been used extensively in the study of the Bible. Textual criticism tries to establish the accuracy of biblical texts. prevailed in the late nineteenth century, understanding the book as a series of erotic love Noun 1. erotic love - a deep feeling of sexual desire and attraction; "their love left them indifferent to their surroundings"; "she was his first love" sexual love, love concupiscence, physical attraction, sexual desire, eros - a desire for sexual intimacy poems, the spiritual understanding of the book was almost totally discarded. C. takes the reader on an insightful tour of the erotic dimensions of the Garden of Eden Garden of Eden n. See Eden. Noun 1. Garden of Eden - a beautiful garden where Adam and Eve were placed at the Creation; when they disobeyed and ate the forbidden fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil they were , Isaiah's Song of the Vineyard, and the Song of Songs. He concludes: "We are called to settle for nothing less than a passionate love affair with God and with life, embracing God and the creation through which God shimmers, living madly in the fantasy that this universe is not purposeless pur·pose·less adj. Lacking a purpose; meaningless or aimless. pur  pose·less·ly adv. , but that we
are called toward the drama and pain of life and love lived to the
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