Song of Solomon

To celebrate the goodness of God-given human love and sexuality within covenant relationship - affirming that physical love between a man and woman reflects the love of God for his people.

The Beloved and her Lover exchange extravagant declarations of mutual desire and beauty; the poems celebrate physical attraction, emotional intimacy, and the holiness of sexual love.

Song of Solomon celebrates the beauty of human sexual love within the covenant of marriage as a holy gift of God — a corrective to both prudishness and licentiousness.

The poems deepen through the experience of temporary loss, renewed seeking, and the climactic declaration that love is as strong as death — a seal on the heart that floods cannot quench.

The second half of the Song elevates the celebration of erotic love into a declaration of love's ultimate power — stronger than death, unable to be extinguished, incapable of being purchased.