Sermon Tone Analysis

Overall tone of the sermon

This automated analysis scores the text on the likely presence of emotional, language, and social tones. There are no right or wrong scores; this is just an indication of tones readers or listeners may pick up from the text.
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Background
Scholars can’t agree on a name: Song of Songs, Song of Solomon, or Latin “Canticles” (Song)
No obvious religious content (Kinlaw)
This book is a literal, powerful description of the romantic and sensual love between a man and a woman
Their courtship and their marriage
Not a smooth chronological story, it is a collection of “snapshots” of their courting and married life, with the pictures not necessarily in order
Also illustrates the love, the intensity, and the beauty of relationship that should exist between God and the believer
Primary for human marriage, secondary for God’s love
WARNING!
There is some sexual language!
What does that say about sex?
It isn’t a BAD thing!
386 Pope Siricius commands all pastors to be celibate, then deacons
440-461 Leo the Great said they were to live as brother and sister
Eventually, priests could not be married at all
They were WRONG!
Marriage is good!
Yet this is his greatest song...
This is the love story of Solomon and his wife...
It is something of a conversation between many people
I’ve color coded the slides so you can see, but some translators differ
If it’s gray, its God or others.
If it’s pink it’s the woman.
If it’s blue its Solomon.
The woman is a Shulamite, or something of a “country girl” from Shunem
Think of it as someone from Brown Summit marrying the President
Not Trump though, a more handsome President
Solomon is referred to as “the beloved”
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