How does the suffering of Job and sensuality of the Song of Songs fit into Christian theology? Just as I warned about talking theology!) A couple of...

The Book
of Job and Song of Songs have both been both problematic and fertile sources for theological
reflection among Christians, and were among the books most often selected as topics for
commentaries in late antiquity and the middle ages.

The Song of Songs has
been interpreted as anof Gods love for the Church. Since humans cannot comprehend the depth of
Gods love, commentators have argued, this love is portrayed in...