Description

The Song of Songs is a love song, and for more than fifteen centuries Christians have also read it as a song of the soul’s love for God. The desert fathers read it slowly in their cells. Origen, Gregory of Nyssa, Bernard of Clairvaux, Teresa of Ávila, and John of the Cross heard in it the whole journey of prayer: seeking by night, the dark seasons when God seems gone, the wound of love, and a desire for God that never comes to an end.

This book walks through the Song in thirty-two short poems, in four parts, reading it the way those contemplatives did. Each poem sits beside a picture and under a single line of Scripture.

What’s inside

• 32 original poems by Timothy Holt, in four parts
• 32 full-color, full-page illustrations in soft pastel
• A line of Scripture with every poem (World English Bible)
• 80 pages, 8.5 × 8.5 in square format

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