Joshua Pannell’s Reviews > Eros and Allegory: Medieval Exegesis of the Song of Songs (Volume 156) > Status Update

This is why the great Paul, swept along by his yearning (eros) for God and seized of its ecstatic power, had this inspired word to say; 'It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me' (Gal 2:20) Paul was truly a lover and, as he says, he was beside himself for God, possessing not his own life but the life of the One for whom he yearned, as exceptionally beloved.

“Perhaps no book of the Bible was more central to medieval spirituality and mysticism or more problematic to contemporary readers than the Song of Songs.”