Annotations and Meditations on the Gospel:
Vol. I: The Infancy Narratives (2003)
Vol. II: The Passion Narratives
Vol. III: The Resurrection Narratives (2004) - This three–volume series, in English translation , composed by Jerome Nadal (1507–80), St. Ignatius Loyola’s closest collaborator in the early days of the Society of Jesus, was first published in Antwerp in 1595 combined engravings portraying episodes from the Gospels with Nadal’s explanatory notes.
Christophorus Blancus’ Engravings - A thorough study (with illustrations) of the six engravings, executed by Christophorus Blancus, a French engraver working in Rome, visualizing the principal points of the most important and popular early modern treatise on St. Joseph.
Church, Culture and Curriculum: Theology and Mathematics in the Jesuit Ratio Studiorum - 1999 marks the fourth centenary of the promulgation of the Ratio Studiorum, This volume is published in connection with the international conference "Jesuit Education 21," held at Saint Joseph's University in June 1999. Lukacs' "A History of the Jesuit Ratio Studiorum," and Consentino's two essays on mathematics in this program of study are complemented by an introduction and bibliographical essay.
Creed and Culture - 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 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.
Devotion, The Society of Jesus, and the Idea of St. Joseph - explores the link between the evolution of veneration of St. Joseph and the spiritual practices and methods of St. Ignatius Loyola’s Spiritual Exercises, as well as the congregations or sodalities founded by the Society of Jesus.
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).
Fully Instructed and Vehemently Influenced: Catholic Preaching in Anglo-Colonial America - debunks the assumption that, in comparison with Protestant sermons, little relevant material survived from the labors of Catholic missioners of the Colonial era. Based on analysis of over 450 texts preached in Maryland and Pennsylvania from 1700 to 1801, this book offers many insights into the originality of Anglo-Colonial Catholic sermons, the sources used in their composition, their presentation of Catholic doctrine and practice, and their attitudes toward contemporary society.
Adrien Gambart’s Emblem Book (1664) The life of St. Francis de Sales in Symbols - This volume includes the late Elisabeth Stopp’s previously unpublished study of La vie symbolique du bienheureux Francois de Sales (1664) of Adrien Gambart (1660-68), an introductory essay by Agnès Guiderdoni-Bruslé 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 was published in preparation for his canonization in 1665.
A Gathering of Evidence essays on William Faulkner’s Intruder in the Dust - pulls together the best criticism available about a novel that illuminates significant dimensions of Faulkner’s short stories and novels. Whatever their approach, the authors in this volume of essays seem to agree on one point: Although this novel is about the education of a young white boy, Chick Mallison, in a racially charged small Southern community, it is Lucas Beauchamp, a black man accused of murdering a white man, who emerges in many seemingly contradictory ways as an important literary figure. Since no one essay can completely exhaust a discussion of the significance of Lucas Beauchamp, these essays, taken together, offer multiple viewpoints that renders the discussion comprehensible and rewarding.
“He Spared Himself in Nothing”: Essays on the Life and Thought of St. John N. Neumann, C.Ss.R. - Commemorating the 25th anniversary of John Nepomucene Neumann, C.Ss.R. canonization, this book reprints a collection of essays on the life and thought of the saint. These reprints are complemented by five original essays, published for the first time. This book aims to foster a renewed in–depth understanding and appreciation of Neumann’s ministry and spirituality.
The Holy Family in Art and Devotion - A collection of nine scholarly essays, originally presented as a 1996 symposium at Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia, on the iconography and cult of the Holy Family.
Hidden in God Essays and talks on St. Jane Frances de Chantal - This volume collects eight essays and talks by the late author of the definitive biography of St. Jane Frances de chantal, Madame de Chantal: Portrait of a Saint (1962). Among the topics addressed are the co-founding of the Order of the Visitation of Holy Mary by Francis de Sales and Jane de Chantal; the changing image of Jane over the period of four centuries; Dr. Stopp’ s reflections on her Madame de Chantal twenty–five years after its initial publication; and hiddenness as the hallmark of the saint’s personality and holiness.
The Holy Family in Art and Devotion - A collection of nine scholarly essays, originally presented as a 1996 symposium at Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia, on the iconography and cult of the Holy Family.
The Holy Family as Prototype of the Civilization of Love - Catalogue of the 1996 exhibition, held at Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia, of Spanish Colonial paintings, Baroque European engravings, and 19th-century Mexican and New Mexican lithographs and paintings on tin of the Holy Family; includes 3 scholarly essays, plus 37 catalogue entries and color plates of art works exhibited.
The Hopkins Quarterly (Journal) - The Hopkins Quarterly, which focuses on the lives and works of Gerard M. Hopkins, S.J., and his friends Robert Bridges, Richard W. Dixon, and Coventry Patmore, is a major research journal widely quoted in Victorian Studies.
Hopkins Variations: Standing round a Waterfall - is a collection of fifty-five perspectives on the poet Gerard Manley Hopkins by poets, actors, translators, scholars, theologians, an artist, a composer, a novelist, and a philosopher from thirteen countries. Essays offer appreciations of Hopkins in various roles, including healer, wordlover, naturalist, musician, travel writer, dialoguist with the Jewish midrash, and hopegiver for Communism-weary Poles.
The Human Search for Truth: Philosophy, Science, Theology - is a collection of the papers presented at a groundbreaking international conference held at the Vatican in May 2000. Scientists and scholars from all branches of science reflect on topics, with special attention given to new questions and challenges in science and technology, specifically in light of the principles offered by Pope John Paul II in his encyclical Fides et Ratio (1998).
I Leave You My Heart - (A Visitandine Chronicle of the French Revolution) makes available, in English translation, the firsthand account of the travails of the nuns of the Lyons Bellecour monastery of the Order of the Visitation of Holy Mary during the French Revolution.
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.
Jesuit Education 21: Conference Proceedings on the Future of Jesuit Higher Education - makes available the keynote addresses and eighty-four papers presented at the Jesuit Education 21 conference, held on the campus of Saint Joseph’s University in June 1999, that brought together 300 educators from the Americas, Europe, Africa, and Asia. Keynote addresses were given by Peter Steinfels, New York Times columnist, and Archbishop Giuseppe Pittau, S.J., Secretary of the Vatican Congregation for Catholic Education.
Pope John Paul II on The Body Human Eucharistic Ecclesial - 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 popeís thought on manís bodily condition, not only his individual body but also the ecclesial and Eucharistic Body of Christ.
Just Man, Husband of Mary, Guardian of Christ - A collection of 20 selections translated into English for the first time, from the most important and popular early modern treatise on St. Joseph; handsomely illustrated with 20 original pen-and-ink drawings by the contemporary religious artist Michael O'Neill McGrath.
A Man to Heal Differences: Essays and Talks on St. Francis de Sales - The collected essays of the late Cambridge University scholar Elisabeth Stopp on St. Francis de Sales, the 17th-century Savoyard bishop and Doctor of the Church.
Mexican Devotional Retablos - A major study (4 scholarly essays, plus 46 catalogue commentaries and color plates) of 19th-century Mexican paintings on tin of Christ, the Virgin Mary, and saints permanently exhibited at Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia.
Patron Saint of the New World: Spanish American Colonial Images of St. Joseph - Catalogue of the 1992 exhibition, held at Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, of Spanish Colonial paintings and sculpture of St. Joseph; includes 3 scholarly essays, plus black-and-white illustrations of the art works exhibited.
Philadelphia: A New Urban Direction, Second Edition - builds upon the impressive work of the initil publication and presents an update of Philadelphias economic, budgetary, and social condition. **Read the Reviews
Proceedings of Jesuit Education 21: Conference on the Future of Jesuit Higher Education - This gathering brought together over 250 educators from the Americas, Europe, Africa, and Asia...
Saint Joseph’s Philadelphia’s Jesuit University: 150 Years -In telling the story of Saint Joseph’s, David R. Contosta examines five intertwined and shifting forces that have shaped the university since its founding in the mid–nineteeth century. Contasta shows how the institution’s four successive locations have paralleled the development of Philadelphia itself.
Saint Joseph in Early Christianity: Devotion and Theology - Fr. Lienhard studies the thought of the Fathers of the Church on three exegetical questions: the genealogy of Jesus, Joseph’s occupation, and the brothers and sisters of Jesus, and on two doctrinal questions: Joseph’s virginity and the authenticity of the marriage of Joseph and Mary.
St. Joseph in Italian Renaissance Society and Art: New Directions and Interpretations - This study assembles for the first time a wealth of evidence of cult veneration of St. Joseph in Renaissance Italy. from this base, Carolyn Wilson argues for broad revision of our understanding of devotion to St. Joseph during the late pre-Tridentine period. She newly indicates an important role for Renaissance Italy in the history of St. Joseph’s liturgical exaltation.
Saint Joseph in Matthew's Gospel - A study, by one of the greatest Biblical scholars of our time, of the portrait of St. Joseph which emerges in Matthew's Gospel.
Saint Joseph in Spanish American Colonial Images of the Holy Family - Study of the sources and rationale of European and Spanish Colonial paintings and engravings of the Holy Family in settings reminiscent of the Garden of Eden.
Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz and Sor Marcela de San Felix - A compelling analysis of the meaning underlying the vigorous devotion to Saint Joseph on the part of two major 17th-century women religious writers.
Stained Glass in Catholic Philadelphia - is the most comprehensive study of stained-glass windows in American Catholic parish churches, worship sites, and institutions to be published to date. It tells the remarkable story of the thousands of stained-glass windows—made in America, England, France, and Germany—in the more than 400 churches, chapels, and institutions of the five-county Archdiocese of Philadelphia. This profusely illustrated book (880 color images) of original research makes accessible a significant and highly visible, but neglected, aspect of our ecclesial, national, and regional cultural heritage.
William Howard Taft: Confident Peacemaker - As an international statesman, William Howard Taft was far more progress than Theodore Roosevelt in the years 1917– 1918, and far more practical minded than Woodrow Wilson. He advocated what may clearly be discerned as a prototype of the United Nations. All this and more is spelled out in William Hold Taft: Confident Peacemaker.
