As Good as It Gets: Love, Life, and Relationships: Fifty Days in The Song of Songs
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Overview
Of all the famous books ever written, The Song of Songs has been designated as the finest ever produced or ever to be read on the subject of finding love, developing relationships, and experiencing life. Its title, The Song of Songs, is a superlative, an almost exaggerated expression of praise, which insists that this book is “the best of the best.” Designed to be read over fifty days, As Good as It Gets takes the reader through this greatest of love songs, delighting in its beauty and exploring its passion while discovering its insights into aspects of love and life such as praise, intimacy, affirmation, identity, insecurity, community, friendship, transformation, disruption, resolution, restlessness, rapture, confidence, dignity, disclosure, and freedom. In the end the reader will discover much more than a manual on relationships or even what it takes to live a passionate and purposeful life. While remaining entirely honest about the realities of life, love, and relationships, The Song retains the remarkable ability to bring us into a life that is filled with joy and grace, beauty, and poetry.
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”Stephen Clark, in his book As Good as It Gets, communicates a
clear, perceptive, and yet practical approach to interpreting the
complex book of the Bible, the Song of Songs. Clark artfully takes
the reader on a creative, sensitive, and God-centered voyage. He
masterfully guides us through the many human emotions represented
in the Song of Songs with his thoughtful, insightful, and
instructive pen."
--Don Harwood
Member New York Philharmonic Orchestra, retired
“As Good as It Gets doesn’t get any better. Stephen Clark’s new
book based on the Bible’s ultimate love story, Song of Songs, is an
opera without the tragedy. Who says love and passion are pleasures
to feel guilty about, in Stephen Clark’s beautiful written and
heart-felt rendering, they are pleasures that go to the very core
of love: God’s love."
--David Dewey
Painter, Professor Emeritus
"It is a rare achievement that can advance scholarship and yet
connect with the person in the pew. It is a rarer achievement yet
that a homiletical and devotional commentary should serve this
purpose. Steven Clark’s commentary on the Song of Songs is a unique
and stunning accomplishment that will edify the scholar and
challenge false conceptions of spirituality. This is simply a
sparkling exposition of a mostly unstudied and unread part of the
Bible."
--John L. Vance
Lecturer in Religion and Philosophy
State University of New York at New Paltz
Product Details
- Title : As Good as It Gets: Love, Life, and Relationships: Fifty Days in The Song of Songs
- Author: Clark, Stephen M.
- Publisher: Wipf and Stock
- Publication Date: 2010
- ISBN: 9781621891543
Stephen Clark is the Senior Pastor of Old Cutler Presbyterian Church in Miami, Florida. A native of Jamaica, he holds diplomas and degrees from the University of London, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, Princeton Seminary, and Drew University.