id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt nk322b9125m Catherine Rose Cavadini The Commercium of the Kiss Who Saves: A Study of Thomas the Cistercian's Commentary on the Song of Songs 2010 .txt text/plain 381 18 58 This dissertation is a theological study of the twelfth-century commentary on the Song of Songs by Thomas Cisterciensis entitled In Cantica Canticorum. Thomas Cisterciensis, then, takes the traditional understanding of the commercium and reads the 'kiss' of 1:1 both as the 'exchange' of redemption and the monk's individual, spiritual experience of the amplexus Christi. cache/nk322b9125m.txt txt/nk322b9125m.txt