Eros Exalted: Secrets of Love from The Song of Solomon
Valentine's Day Lessons from The Song of Songs for all people, even singles
Valentine’s Day beckons, our annual corporate celebration of eros. The Bible has a brief little book, really a song, exalting eros — the Song of Solomon — for the occasion.
Learn Seven Secrets of Love from the inspired Song:
Eros Exalted: Secrets of Love from The Song of Solomon (<click on the link to the Warhorn article.)
The Song of Solomon is not an allegory of spiritual love, as the Platonists claim.
In Western society, influenced by Platonism, Christians assumed that the Song couldn’t possibly mean what it appears to mean.
The Song of Solomon is not a sex manual, as some recent interpreters have tried to make it.
The Song is not all about sex. It’s about the relationship in which sex is found; what C. S. Lewis calls “eros,” romantic love. In its celebration of eros, it reveals seven truths for your love life.
Read the article to find out:
https://warhornmedia.com/2023/02/14/eros-exalted-secrets-of-love-from-the-song-of-solomon/
John B. Carpenter, Ph.D., is pastor of Covenant Reformed Baptist Church, in Danville, VA. and the author of Seven Pillars of a Biblical Church (Wipf and Stock, 2022).