Reading the Song of Songs with St. Thomas Aquinas

by Serge-Thomas Bonino

St. Thomas Aquinas never wrote a commentary on the Song of Songs. The purpose of this book is to demonstrate, however, that he meditated on it and absorbed it, so that the words of the Song are for him a familiar repertoire and a theological source. His work contains numerous citations of the Song, not counting his borrowings of vocabulary and images from it. In total, there are 312 citations of the Song in Aquinas's corpus, along with citations of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813235987
• ISBN13: 9780813235981
• Release Date: June 2023
• Publisher: Catholic University of America Press
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.7"