El plaer eròtic en el Càntic dels Càntics
- Autores: Frederic Raurell
- Localización: Revista catalana de teología, ISSN 0210-5551, Vol. 6, Nº. 2, 1981, págs. 257-298
- Idioma: catalán
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Resumen
The study is about erotic pleasure in the Song of Songs. The allegorical interpretation which implies a radical duality is rejected. To say that Israel is the -beloved., the beautiful-, the gsister-, on the one hand, while on the other hand the primary meanings of these words are hidden or rejected is the same as proclaiming the value of -insignificante or flatus vocis. The tradition of the language of love in the prophets is only meaningful in terms of the primary value of sexual love: that is to say, in terms of the characteristic style of eros. The ethical meaning of pleasure, both sensual and sexual, in the Old Testament is studied primarily in Wisdom literature. The Wisdom character of the Song of Songs finds an explanation in 8,6-7, a brief Wisdom reflection on the enigma (hidah) of human sexual love. The incorporation of the Song in the Wisdom reflection rends to this work its specific theology of creation. Sex is demythified and desacralized. Love in the Song of Songs is not e~pure-, if by this term one claims io denote the superiority of spirítual love. To liberafe sex of its religious functions signified for Israel to understand the covenant as a vertical act. The literal .meaning of the Song of Songs is a denunciation of the supposed antithesis between eros. and agape, which has had such a negative effect on theology and moral teaching. The insertion of this book in the Canon of Holy Scriptures has its intention and intentionality. The name of God is wisely omitted so that in an area as obscure and enigmatic as this one it is made clear, that God is God and man is man, and only man, but that sex is a dimension of being man. This is the theology of tenderness: while it affirms the dignity of man it preserves the transcendence of God and at the same time proclaims his humanity.
