Eros, Agape, Marcion

Kingsmill again.  She argues that the anti-mystical trend in Song of Songs interpretation has deprived “the Hebrew Bible of its most sublime expression of the nature of God’s love” and thus left “a void into which the spirit of Marcion has inevitably stepped, with disastrous consequences for our understanding of the Old Testament.”  She adds in a footnote, “The book Agape and Eros by Anders Nygren . . . has been damaging not only to the eros motif but also in its reinforcement of a ‘law and gospel’ dichotomy, thus effectively promoting Marcionism and, as an inevitably by-product, anti-Semitism.”