Creed and Culture
Jesuit Studies of Pope John Paul II
Emblemata Sacra
Emblem Books from the Maurits Sabbe Library
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Adrien Gambart’s
The Life of St. Francis de Sales in Symbols
The Jesuits and the Arts 1540-1773 Second Printing Now Available
Philadelphia A New Urban Direction Second Edition
Pope John Paul II on The Body
Human Eucharistic Ecclesial
Creed and Culture
Jesuit Studies of Pope John Paul II
Edited by Joseph W. Koterski, S.J., and John J. Conley, S.J.
In the late 1980s a group of American and Canadian Jesuit scholars founded the John Paul II Jesuit Symposium. Its purpose is to sponsor scholarly discussion on the rich teaching of John Paul II. The Symposium is interdisciplinary, welcoming Jesuits from a variety of fields of inquiry: theology, philosophy, law, social science, physical science, fine arts, history, and literature. It is also pluralist in that it encourages debate on different interpretations of the meaning and pastoral implications of the pope’s thought. The Symposium strives to place the scholarly resources of the Society of Jesus at the service of the papacy, which Jesuits have defended with particular fervor since their order’s birth in the Catholic Reformation.
The major work of the Symposium has been the sponsorship of a biennial conference devoted to John Paul II’s teaching. This volume is a collection of papers from two such conferences: that held in 1998 at Georgetown University on “Priesthood, Religion, and Culture in John Paul II,” and the conference that took place in 2000 at Xavier University in Cincinnati on “Pope John Paul II on Faith, Culture, and the New Evangelization.”
Joseph W. Koterski, S.J., is chair and associate professor, Department of Philosophy at Fordham University. John J. Conley, S.J., is professor of Philosophy at Fordham University. They are the editors of the book Prophecy and Diplomacy: The Moral Doctrine of John Paul II (Fordham University Press, 1999), a collection of papers from the 1994 and 1996 meetings of the John Paul II Jesuit Symposium held at Canisius College and Georgetown University, respectively.
Table of Contents
Creed and Culture: An Introduction
John J. Conley, S.J. (Fordham University)1. The Enrichment and Transmission of Faith in the Theology of John Paul II
Cardinal Avery Dulles, S.J. (Fordham University)
Response: John Michael McDermott, S.J. (Pontifical College Josephinum)
2. John Paul II the Countercultural Pope
Martin R. Tripoli S.J. (Saint Joseph’s University)
Response: William S. Kurz, S.J. (Marquette University)
3. The Distant Country of John Paul II
Raymond Gawronski, S.J. (Marquette University)
4. A Critical Reading of Pope John Paul II’s Understanding of Culture
John C. Haughey, S.J. (Woodstock Theological Center, Georgetown University)
5. The New Evangelization of American Intellectual Culture: Context, Resistances, and Strategies
Arthur R. Madigan, S.J. (LeMoyne College)
Response: Christopher M. Cullen, S.J. (Fordham University)
6. Pope John Paul II and the New Age Movement
Mitchell Pacwa, S.J. (Global Catholic Network, Birmingham AL)
7. John Paul II and Interreligious Dialogue
Joseph A. Bracken, S.J. (Xavier University)
Response: Earl Muller, S.J. (Sacred Heart Seminary, Detroit MI)
8. Karol Wojtyla, Artist; John Paul II, Theologian of Art
John J. Conley, S.J. (Fordham University)
Response: Dennis McNally, S.J. (Saint Joseph’s University)9. John Paul II on the Priesthood
Cardinal Avery Dulles, S.J. (Fordham University)
Response: Lucien Longtin, S.J. (Jesuit Center, Wernersville PA)
10. The Desire for Fulfillment: Comments on an Issue Raised in the
Letter to Families
Peter F. Ryan, S.J. (Mt. St. Mary’s Seminary, Emmitsburg MD)
11. Nature and Grace after the Baroque
Stephen Fields, S.J. (Georgetown University)
List of Contributors
2004, 266 pp.
ISBN: 0-916101-45-2 (paper over board) $35.00
Emblemata Sacra
Emblem Books from the Maurits Sabbe Library
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Emblemata Sacra: Emblem Books from the Maurits Sabbe Library, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven is the catalogue of an exhibition mounted at the Francis A. Drexel Library at Saint Joseph’s University in spring 2006. This exhibit took place in conjunction with the celebration of the Society of Jesus’s commemoration in 2006 of three major anniversaries: the 450th anniversary of the death of its founder, St. Ignatius Loyola (1491-1556), as well as the 500th anniversary of the birth of Ignatius’s first two companions, St. Francis Xavier (1506-52) and Bl. Peter Faber (1506-46).
The “Emblemata Sacra” exhibit featured nearly seventy emblem books from the world’s premier theological library’s rich collection of preciosa and Jesuitica. The exhibit was divided into thirteen thematic sections, each of which in the catalogue is explained by text prepared by a specialist in emblem studies and illustrated by full color, high density images of each of the emblem books exhibited. The volume also includes a bibliography.
2006, 116 pp. / 81 Illustrations
ISBN: 0-916101-55-x (paper) $45.00
Adrien Gambart’s Emblem Book (1664)
The Life of St. Francis de Sales in Symbols
A facsimile edition with a study by Elisabeth Stopp
Edited by Terence O’Reilly, with an introductory essay by
Agnès Guiderdoni-Bruslé
This volume includes the late Elisabeth Stopp’s previously unpublished study of the emblem book of Adrien Gambart (1660-68), an introductory essay by Agnès Guiderdoni-Bruslè that updates and supplements Stopp’s work, and a facsimile of Gambart’s emblem book. This remarkable book was inspired by the life and writings of St. Francis de Sales (1567-1622), and written for the Sisters of the Visitation monastery of Faubourg Saint-Jacques in Paris, where Gambart, a Vincentian priest, served as chaplain for over thirty years.
Gambart’s emblems visualize many of the literary images that Francis employs in his writings, as well as draws on other popular sources of the emblematic tradition. By means of the emblems, Gambart seeks to identify in a tangible and memorable way for the reader the truly remarkable qualities of Francis’s life and the exceptional elements of Salesian spirituality. Such a method, Gambart points out, is in keeping with Francis’s own profuse use of images and symbols to communicate his spiritual doctrine as concretely and clearly as possible.
Each emblem invites the reader to reflect on an episode from Francis’s biography or on one of his particular virtues. One emblem is provided for each of the fifty-two weeks of the year and is explained by an explanatory meditation, which is then followed by seven points for prayer and resolution, one for each day of the week. Gambart called these points Fruits et pratiques (Fruits and Practice), a summary, as it were, of what was to be learned from meditation on the emblematic picture.
Stopp’s study offers an English translation of the key observations made by Gambart about each of the fifty-two emblems, while the facsimile makes available Gambart’s original French text. Moreover, the facsimile is reproduced in color in order to convey the tonal richness of the original emblems.
Elisabeth Stopp was a Fellow of Girton College and University Lecturer in Modern and Medieval Languages at Cambridge University. In the field of Salesian studies, she published many articles and books, including A Man to Heal Differences: Essays and Talks on St. Francis de Sales (Saint Joseph’s University Press, 1997), and Hidden in God: Essays and Talks on St. Jane Frances de Chantal (Saint Joseph’s University Press, 1999). She also published widely on German Romanticism. Her annotated translation of Goethe’s Maxims and Reflections was published in 1999 in the “Penguin Classics” series.
Agnès Guiderdoni–Bruslé is a post-doctoral researcher at the Université Catholique de Louvain (Belgium). She has published articles in XVIIe Siècle, Glasgow Emblem Studies, and several festschriften. Her book Emblèmatique et spiritualité will be published by Brepols.
2006 / xi + 373 pp / 113 Illustrations
ISBN: 0-916101-49-5 (Cloth) $60.00
The Jesuits and the Arts 1540-1773
Second Printing Now Available
Edited by John W. O’Malley, S.J., and Gauvin Alexander Bailey
Giovanni Sale, S.J., editor of the Italian, French and Spanish editions.
The Jesuits and the Arts, 1540–1773 is the first survey ever published of the Jesuits’ global artistic enterprise in Europe, Asia, and the Americas, from the foundation of the Society of Jesus in 1540 to its suppression in 1773. Here the Jesuits’ extraordinary commitment to the arts—the subject of a groundswell of recent scholarly work—comes spectacularly alive, with 476 full color, high resolution images of Jesuit buildings, paintings, sculpture, theatrical sets, and music from around the globe, many of them published here for the first time. No other book dealing with this aspect of the Jesuits’ activities is as comprehensive or as profusely illustrated. Authors of the twelve essays are leading specialists from Italy, Germany, Austria, France, Spain, Argentina, and the United States; some of them are published here in English for the first time.
After John W. O’Malley’s introductory essay “The Cultural Mission of the Society of Jesus,” Giovanni Sale discusses first the principles that guided the Jesuits in design and construction of their churches and residences, and then, in a second essay, the tension between the Jesuits and Cardinal Alessandro Farnese, the imperious patron of their most important church, the Gesù in Rome. With a dazzling command of his material, Richard Bösel next takes the reader on an architectural tour of Jesuit churches, chapels, schools, residences, and meeting halls in Europe, spanning the Continent from France to Slovakia, from Spain to Poland and Lithuania, and from Rome to Antwerp. Gauvin Alexander Bailey leads a similar tour to show the influence of Italian painting on Jesuit art throughout Europe, after which Heinz Pfeiffer discusses Jesuit iconography and, especially, the often frustrating efforts of the Jesuits to obtain a “true” portrait of Saint Ignatius. Marcello Fagiolo presents one of the least known but most fascinating aspects of Jesuit engagement with the arts: the construction of elaborate temporary “stages” in their churches for the celebration of the Eucharistic devotion of the “Forty Hours.”
The volume takes leave of Europe with a theological-historical essay by Philippe Lécrivain on the Jesuit missions in Paraguay and China, which is followed by Ramón Gutiérrez and Graciela Maria Viñuales on the Jesuits’ artistic and architectural legacy in Spanish America. Bailey returns with an essay on Jesuit art in Asia and another on Jesuit art in North America, specifically New France and Maryland. The volume concludes with T. Frank Kennedy on “The Jesuits and Music.”
Although much of this volume first appeared in Italian, French, and Spanish in a version edited by Giovanni Sale in 2003, the English-language version has further edited and updated many of the chapters (some of them radically), added the chapter on the Jesuits in North America, included many new color images, greatly expanded the captions, and brought up to date and amplified the bibliographies. In many significant ways, The Jesuits and the Arts, 1540–1773 is a new book. Because of generous subventions toward publication, Saint Joseph’s University Press is able to offer this sumptuous volume at an affordable price.
John W. O'Malley, S.J., is Distinguished Professor of Church History at the Weston Jesuit School of Theology in Cambridge, Massachusetts. A specialist in the religious culture of early modern Europe, he is Past President of the American Catholic Historical Association and of the Renaissance Society of America, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, member of the American Philosophical Society, and Fellow of the Accademia di San Carlo, Ambrosian Library, Milan. In 2002 he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society for Italian Historical Studies and in 2005 the corresponding award from the Renaissance Society of America. His latest book is Four Cultures of the West (Harvard, 2004).
Gauvin Alexander Bailey is Associate Professor of Renaissance and Baroque Art at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. A specialist in Jesuit art patronage in Renaissance and Baroque Italy, Latin America, and Asia, he has written over fifty articles and authored or co-authored six books on the subject, including his Art on the Jesuit Missions in Asia and Latin America (1999),
winner of the Bainton Prize in Art History, Between Renaissance and Baroque: Jesuit Art in Rome, 1565-1610 (2003), and Art of Colonial Latin America (2005). He is currently working on a new book entitled Andean Forms and Symbolism in the “Mestizo Style” Architecture of Colonial Peru. Bailey has been a fellow at the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies at Villa I Tatti in Florence and has received grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, National Endowment for the Arts, and Smithsonian Institution.
Giovanni Sale, S.J., is director of the Jesuit Historical Institute in Rome. He is also a member of the editorial board of La Civiltà Cattolica and teaches contemporary church history at the Pontifical Gregorian University, from which he received his doctorate in ecclesiastical history. He has published numerous articles in a variety of journals, as well as authored or edited more than a half–dozen books, including Pauperismo architettonico e architettura gesuitica (2001); La Civiltà Cattolica nella crisi modernista (2001); Dalla Monarchia alla Repubblica (2002); Hitler, la Santa Sede e gli ebrei (2004); De Gasperi, gli USA e il Vaticano all´inizio della guerra fredda (2005); Popolari e destra cattolica al tempo di Benedetto XV (2005).
December 2005 496 pp, 476 Color Images
ISBN: 0-916101-52-5 (Cloth) $70.00 + shipping Second Printing Now Available
(A note about the list price of this book. Books from the first printing were advertised at $50 per copy, with a two–week introductory offer of $35 per copy. Those give–away prices were made possible by a number of generous subventions that we were not able to call upon a second time. Even with the increase in price to $70 per copy, we believe the book is still an incredible bargain. Quantity discounts are available.)
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Philadelphia: A new urban Direction
2005, 408 pages; 70 figures, tables, and maps; bibliography; appendices; index |
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Pope John Paul II on The Body
Human Eucharistic Ecclesial
Edited by John M. McDermott, S.J., and John Gavin S.J.
Pope John Paul II’s public allocutions later published under the title, The Theology of the Body, have been widely read and appreciated. Originating in Jesuit Seminar for the Study of Papal Thought, John Paul II on the Body: Human, Eucharistic, Ecclesial aims to illuminate the late pope’s thought on man’s bodily condition, not only his individual body but also the ecclesial and Eucharistic Body of Christ.
This volume of essays is fittingly dedicated to Avery Cardinal Dulles, S.J., who has spent his recent years in studying and disseminating John Paul’s thought. Besides various commentaries on Ecclesia de Eucharistia, Dies Domini, and Dominicae cenae, as well as on the principal sections of Theology of the Body, John Paul II on the Body also includes examinations of Dominum et Vivificantem and Redemptor Hominis.
John M. McDermott, S.J., is adjunct professor at the Sacred Heart Major Seminary in Detroit, MI, he is a member of the International Theological Commission since 2004.
John Gavin, S.J., is currently writing a doctoral thesis on Maximus the Confessor at the Institutum Patristicum Augustinianum in Rome.
2007, 424 pp.
ISBN: 0-916101-54-1 (paper over board) $45.00