Reverend Edward Taylor’s Sacramental Meditations on the Song of Songs
| Author: | Hessel-Robinson, Timothy | |
| Year: | 2012 | |
| Pages: | 244 | |
| ISBN: | 0-7734-3921-8 978-0-7734-3921-4 | |
| Price: | $179.95 + shipping | |
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This text is the first to employ and semiotic theory, gender and sexuality studies to render a fresh reading of Taylor’s erotically charged devotion
Reviews
“…a substantive contribution to this tradition of interpretation of the Song. It is also an important contribution to the study of the literature of early American Protestant spirituality and to the discipline of spirituality itself.” – Prof. Sandra M. Schneiders, Jesuit School of Theology at Santa Clara and the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, California.
“…yields new insights not only into Taylor, but also into the varieties of religious experience embraced by Puritan spirituality, timely, given the revival of interest in Protestant spirituality.” – Prof. Joseph D. Driskill, Pacific School of Religion
“Weaving biography and history together with theology, poetics, and cultural studies, Hessel-Robinson has produced an illuminative study of one of colonial America’s most important Christian authors.” – Prof. Arthur Holder, Graduate Theological Union
“…yields new insights not only into Taylor, but also into the varieties of religious experience embraced by Puritan spirituality, timely, given the revival of interest in Protestant spirituality.” – Prof. Joseph D. Driskill, Pacific School of Religion
“Weaving biography and history together with theology, poetics, and cultural studies, Hessel-Robinson has produced an illuminative study of one of colonial America’s most important Christian authors.” – Prof. Arthur Holder, Graduate Theological Union
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: Introduction
Interpreting Edward Taylor
Edward Taylor’s Life and Work
Chapter 2: “The Mirror of Divine Love:” The Song of Songs in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Protestant Commentary
Hermeneutic Transitions
Protestant Interpretations of the Song of Songs:
Reactions and Retrievals
Chapter 3: “Of Spices and Sweet flowers, reeks of Perfumes:” The Senses in Edward Taylor’s Spirituality
Desire and Delight in Reformed Spirituality
The Context of Puritan Natural Philosophy
The Senses in English Devotional Literature
The Senses in Edward Taylor’s Meditations: Smell
The Senses in Edward Taylor: Sight
The Senses in Edward Taylor: Sound
Chapter 4: “This Rich Banquet Makes Me thus a Poet:” The Eucharist and Edward Taylor’s Spirituality
Reformed Eucharistic Theology: John Calvin
Early Puritan Eucharistic Theology
The Halfway Covenant and the Stodderean Controversy
Edward Taylor’s Eucharistic Theology
The Song of Songs as Language of the Feast
Chapter 5:“Let My Heart Embrace Thy Loveliness: The Erotic Dimensions of Edward Taylor’s Spirituality
Allegory as Sublimation?
Puritan Attitudes Toward Sexuality and Marriage
Christ, the Suitor
Longing for Union
Conception, Pregnancy, and Child Bearing
Erotic Evocations
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: Introduction
Interpreting Edward Taylor
Edward Taylor’s Life and Work
Chapter 2: “The Mirror of Divine Love:” The Song of Songs in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Protestant Commentary
Hermeneutic Transitions
Protestant Interpretations of the Song of Songs:
Reactions and Retrievals
Chapter 3: “Of Spices and Sweet flowers, reeks of Perfumes:” The Senses in Edward Taylor’s Spirituality
Desire and Delight in Reformed Spirituality
The Context of Puritan Natural Philosophy
The Senses in English Devotional Literature
The Senses in Edward Taylor’s Meditations: Smell
The Senses in Edward Taylor: Sight
The Senses in Edward Taylor: Sound
Chapter 4: “This Rich Banquet Makes Me thus a Poet:” The Eucharist and Edward Taylor’s Spirituality
Reformed Eucharistic Theology: John Calvin
Early Puritan Eucharistic Theology
The Halfway Covenant and the Stodderean Controversy
Edward Taylor’s Eucharistic Theology
The Song of Songs as Language of the Feast
Chapter 5:“Let My Heart Embrace Thy Loveliness: The Erotic Dimensions of Edward Taylor’s Spirituality
Allegory as Sublimation?
Puritan Attitudes Toward Sexuality and Marriage
Christ, the Suitor
Longing for Union
Conception, Pregnancy, and Child Bearing
Erotic Evocations
Bibliography
Index