Solomon's Tantric Song: Questions of Sexual Spirituality by McCleary, Rollan

Solomon's Tantric Song: Questions of Sexual Spirituality (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781477585283)

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Solomon's Tantric Song: Questions of Sexual Spirituality by McCleary, Rollan

Solomon's Tantric Song: Questions of Sexual Spirituality

$12.50
Solomon's Tantric Song: Questions of Sexual Spirituality by McCleary, Rollan

Solomon's Tantric Song: Questions of Sexual Spirituality

$12.50
Format: Paperback
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This book answers the question if the Song of Solomon is neither an involved allegory of the soul nor just some frank eroticism with God absent, what is it? Why is it even in the Bible and can it tell us anything today? This genuinely unique study suggests readers have lost, or never quite found, the best all-round key to reading. This must be along the lines of erotic spirituality. And while there is no exact parallel with Asian sexual mysticism there is undoubtedly some, and parts of the work must be read more esoterically. At the same time as this book is an inquiry into the Song's mysteries it is also appreciation of it as poetry. Feeling for the poetry and its essential unity is often lost amid standard commentary. It should be what provides clues to the much disputed "story" behind the anthology, even if that is not exactly the virtue preserved tale of the Shepherd thesis beloved of American Puritanism which has dislodged Solomon from a picture to which he was once central. The fabled wisdom attributed to Solomon includes the esoteric and reaches into issues for sex and sexuality today. It is relevant to persons both straight and gay and to ongoing debates about sex and marriage everywhere, but especially within Christianity.

Author: Rollan McCleary
ISBN-10: 1477585281
ISBN-13: 9781477585283
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 06/23/2012
Pages: 190
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.58lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.40d
By Rollan McCleary
By Rollan McCleary
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Rollan McCleary is of dual Irish and Australian nationalities and a doctor of religious studies from Queensland University. He has been published in mainly religion - his first international publication, "The Expansion of God" (1982) which was a critical success was about the cultural relations of Christianity and Asia, a region in which he lived for many years. His most recent book is "The Great Circle: Asia, David and God Consciousness" (2012). He is also a poet. A full length poetic drama, "Daughter of the Sea King" was performed on the ABC in 1992 and a collection, Puer Poems was published in 2011. It is as a poet as much as a theologian that he approaches the Song of Solomon.

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