Annotations and Meditations on the Gospel:
Vol.I: The Infancy Narratives
Vol.III: The Resurrection Narratives
Christophorus Blancus’ Engravings
Church,
Culture and Curriculum:
Theology and Mathematics in the Jesuit Ratio Studiorum
Creed and Culture
Jesuit Studies of Pope John Paul II
Devotion, The Society of Jesus, and the Idea of St. Joseph
Emblemata Sacra
Emblem Books from the Maurits Sabbe Library
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Fully Instructed and Vehemently Influenced:
Catholic Preaching in Anglo-Colonial America
Adrien Gambart’s
The Life of St. Francis de Sales in Symbols
A Gathering of Evidence
Essays on William Faulkner’s Intruder in the Dust
“He Spared Himself in Nothing” :
Essays on the Life and Thought of John Nepomucene Neumann, C.SS.R.
Hidden in God: Essays and Talks on St. Jane Frances de Chantal
The Holy Family as Prototype of the Civilization of Love
The Holy Family in Art & Devotion
Hopkins Variations
Standing round a Waterfall
The Human Search for Truth: Philosophy, Science, Theology
The Outlook for the Third Millennium
I
Leave You My Heart:
A Visitandine Chronicle of the French Revolution
The Jesuits and the Arts 1540 - 1773 Second Printing Now Available
Jesuit
Education 21:
Conference Proceedings on the Future of Jesuit Higher Education
Pope John Paul II on The Body
Human Eucharistic Ecclesial
Just Man, Husband of Mary, Guardian of Christ
Philadelphia: A New Urban Direction Second Edition
Saint Joseph’s
Philadelphia’s Jesuit University: 150 Years
St. Joseph in Early Christianity: Devotion and Theology
St. Joseph in Italian Renaissance Society and Art:
New Directions & Interpretations
Saint Joseph in Matthew’s Gospel
Saint Joseph in Spanish American Colonial Images of the Holy Spirit
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz and Sor Marcela de San Félix
A Gathering of Evidence
Essays on William Faulkner’s Intruder in the Dust
Co-published with Fordham University Press
Edited by Michel Gresset and Patrick Samway, S.J.
Among the stars in the American literary firmament Faulkner’s has remained consistently bright. What-ever litmus test one wants to use, Faulkner’s fiction has always been recognized as among the very best ever written in the United States. And thus it is particularly fitting that a volume of 12 essays focusing exclusively on Intruder in the Dust (1948) be made available for the first time to students of Faulkner, of whatever stripe, who wish to appreciate this novel in different contexts and from a variety of perspectives. In short, this volume is a gathering of all sorts of methodological evidence for evaluating a novel that is, in itself, a detective story whose resolution depends upon securing appropriate legal evidence.
A Gathering of Evidence 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.
Michel Gresset, Professor Emeritus of American Literature at the Institut d’Anglais Charles V of the University Denis Diderot (Paris VII) in France, has taught at San Diego State University, the University of British Columbia, and Harvard. He is the author of Faulkner ou la Fascination (Klincksieck, 1982, translated as Fascination: Faulkner’s Fiction, 1919-1936, Duke University Press, 1989) and the editor of Volume I of the Pléiade edition of Faulkner’s works and one of the co-editors of Volume III.
Patrick Samway, S.J., Professor of English at Saint Joseph’s University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is the author of Walker Percy: A Life (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; cited by the New York Times as a “notable book” of 1997). He has written a book on the manuscripts and typescripts of Faulkner’s Intruder in the Dust and also co-edited with Michel Gresset Faulkner and Ideology: Perspectives from Paris (University Press of Mississippi, 1983).
Essays in this volume include:
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276 pp, 25 Illustrations
ISBN: 0-916101-46-0 (Cloth) $34.00
Annotations and Meditations
on the Gospels
Volume I: The Infancy Narratives (2003)
Volume II: The Passion Narratives (Forthcoming)
Volume III: The Infancy Narratives (2005)
Jerome Nadal, S.J.
Translated by Frederick A. Homann, S.J.
With an introductory study by Walter S. Melion
Annotations and Meditations on the Gospels, 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 (a second edition followed the same year, and a third edition in 1607). This book combined engravings portraying episodes from the Gospels executed by the premier Flemish engravers of the day with Nadal’s explanatory notes and meditations on these episodes as depicted in the engravings, in order to help young Jesuit seminarians to meditate on the Gospels that they heard read at Sunday Mass. The impact of this book on the sacred art of the period after the Council of Trent was enormous not only in Europe, but also in the Americas, Africa, and Asia.
Saint Joseph’s University Press is pleased to announce the publication of a three-volume series that makes available, for the first time in English translation, three key sections of Nadal’s Annotations and Mediations on the Gospels:
Vol. 1: The Infancy Narratives (2003)
Vol. 2: The Passion Narratives (Fall 2006)
Vol. 3: The Resurrection Narratives (2005)
Nadal’s text (1607 edition) is presented in an accessible contemporary translation prepared by Frederick A. Homann, S.J., who also provides the reader with helpful notes and references. The translation is preceded by a thorough introduction to Nadal, his book, and its images by Walter S. Melion. Melion’s introductory essay in Vol. 1: The Infancy Narratives is entitled “The Art of Vision in Jerome Nadal’s Adnotationes et Meditationes in Evangelia.”
Volume 1 includes a CD-ROM with high resolution scans of all 153 engravings from the 1607 edition.
This collection will be of special interest to art historians, as well as other scholars working in the areas of Jesuit and early modern Catholic studies.
Frederick A. Homann, S.J., is professor emeritus of mathematics at Saint Joseph’s University. He is the translator of Ladislaus Lukacs, S.J., and Giuseppe Consentino, Church, Culture & Curriculum: Theology and Mathematics in the Jesuit Ratio Studiorum (Saint Joseph’s University Press, 1999), to which he also contributed an introductory essay.
Walter S. Melion is professor and chair, Department of the History of Art, The Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of Shaping the Netherlandish Canon; Karel van Mander’s “Schilder-Boeck” (University of Chicago Press, 1991).
Critical acclaim for
Annotations and Meditations on the Gospels, Vol. I: The Infancy Narratives“[Melion’s] introduction to the English translation of Nadal’s book is most clarifying, and helps a lot to understand this work. …This first English translation of Nadal’s book is undoubtedly a wonderful means of spreading the knowledge of this important work, both from an artistic and spiritual point of view. Volume I also includes a CD-ROM that provides for the first time, high resolution scans of all 153 engravings of Gospel episodes from the 1607 edition of Nadal’s Annotations and Meditations on the Gospels.”
Fernando García Gutiérrez, S.J. (Sophia University, Tokyo)
Archivum Historicum Societatis Iesu
“Melion’s essay rewards patience by tracing the intricate connections between vision and spiritual knowledge that run through some chapters of Nadal’s book. …Melion subtly unravels the intricate connections woven between physical and spiritual sight, present and eternal time, crossing between images and mediations. He always makes sense and writes clearly. As a result the analysis is stimulating and instructive, a useful essay to read and consult. …Thus Melion’s essay makes a real contribution to our knowledge of links—between the sense of sight as understood in the sixteenth century, religious pictures, and religious meditation. He builds on solid foundations. Homann’s translation of The Infancy Cycle from Nadal’s book is consistently readable, and the quality of the illustrations is excellent. It is also gratifying that the Wiericxs’ engravings are reproduced in color, thus conveying the tonal richness of their work.”
Jeffrey Muller (Brown University)
Historians of Netherlandish Art
“Though the engravings have previously been published on their own, Homann also gives us Nadal’s Adnotationes, and thereby provides a fascinating window into early Jesuit interpretation of prayer and of the Spiritual Exercises. Until now no English translation of Nadal’s text has been available. …Volume I present the first nine chapters, along with a monograph-length introduction by art historian Walter Melion, …This edition of Adnotationes makes a significant contribution both to the study of Ignatian spirituality and to discussions about the role of visual images in prayer.”
Elizabeth Liebert (San Francisco Theological Seminary)
The Way
2003
198 pp, 25 Illustrations
Volume I: ISBN: 0-916101-41-X (Cloth) $39.95
2005 198 pp, 16 Illustrations
Volume III: ISBN: 0-916101-47-9 (Cloth) $39.95
Christophorus Blancus’ Engravings for Jerónimo Gracián’s Summary of the Excellencies of St. Joseph
Joseph F. Chorpenning, O.S.F.S.
The first editions of the Discalced Carmelite friar Jerónimo Gracián’s Summary of the Excellencies of St. Joseph were illustrated with a set of six engravings, which may have been reproduced in several subsequent editions. Executed by Christophorus Blancus, a French engraver who worked in Rome, these engravings portray scenes from the life of St. Joseph and the Holy Family which visualize the principal points of Gracián’s theology of the saint. Neglected by modern scholars who have studied this important book, Blancus’ engravings are reproduced for the first time since the 16th century, and each is explained in light of Gracián’s text by the Summary’s English translator. This monograph is a companion volume to the Just Man anthology, also by Chorpenning.
“a significant contribution
toward a broader understanding of pictorial imagery in relation to the
development, expansion, and special character of Saint Joseph's cult and
the concomitant devotion to the Holy Family. . . . This analysis is illuminating
in the immediate context and also compelling in its potential application
to the interpretation of Joseph's iconography when isolated from text.
”
- Carolyn C, Wilson, Sixteenth Century Journal
“The author skillfully weaves
together engravings, epigrams, and text, each complimenting and explaining
the other.…The exiguous proportions of this excellent work are by
no means indicative of its worth and importance.”
- Joachim Smet, O.Carm, Carmelus
1996
29 pp., 32 b/w illustrations,
ISBN: 0-916101-23-1 (Paper) $ 8.95
Church, Culture and
Curriculum:
Theology and Mathematics in the Jesuit Ratio Studiorum
Translated essays with
an introduction by
Frederick A. Homann, S.J.
1999 marks the fourth centenary of the promulgation of the Ratio Studiorum, the renowned study plan of the Society of Jesus that regulated Jesuit academics from grammar school through the seminary and university levels worldwide until well into the 20th century. Church, Culture and Curriculum commemorates this anniversary by making available, for the first time in English translation, three seminal studies, originally published in Latin or Italian, by Ladislaus Lukacs, S.J., and Giuseppe Cosentino, on the Jesuit Ratio Studiorum. This volume was also 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 Cosentino’s two essays on mathematics in this program of study are complemented by an introduction and bibliographical essay. The latter orient the reader to the principal themes of these studies, as well as provide a guide to the key relevant studies in English on these topics.
“Overall, the essays have
been clearly translated by Frederick A. Homann, and they provide the novice
with an excellent introduction to the Ratio Studiorum. Because
it contains the only English translation of Lukacs’ fine historical
essay, it is important that anyone working in the history of the Society
of Jesus read this volume.”
- David A. Salomon, Sixteenth Century Journal
1999
94 pp.,
ISBN:
0-916101-30-4 (Paper) $ 19.95
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
Devotion, The Society
of Jesus, and the Idea of St. Joseph
Michael W. Maher, S.J.
In this study, Michael W. Maher, S.J., assistant professor of History at Saint Louis University and a member of the Jesuit Historical Institute in Rome, explores the Jesuits’ contribution to the evolution of veneration of St. Joseph. Fr. Maher sees this contribution as closely linked to the spiritual practices and methods found in St. Ignatius Loyola’s Spiritual Exercises, as well as to the congregations or sodalities founded by the Jesuits. The former encouraged using the imagination to fill in the scarcity of information about Joseph in the Gospels, while the latter promoted the saint as a model of Christian living to be imitated by husbands and fathers and as the patron of Christian dying since he died in the presence of and comforted by Jesus and Mary.
Fr. Maher’s current research focuses on the role of Jesuit-directed congregations in Rome and the part they played in the dissemination of Jesuit spirituality. His publications include essays in Confraternities and Catholic Reform in Italy, France and Spain (Kirksville, Missouri: Thomas Jefferson University Press, 1999), Penitence in the Age of the Reformations (Ashgate Press, 2000), and Archive for Reformation Studies. His reflection “An Exploration of the Ignatian roots of the Ratio Studiorum ” was published in the Fall 1999 issue of Conversations on Jesuit Higher Education.
“a very appealing and very
readable reflection.”
- Teófanes Egido, O.C.D., Estudios Josefinos
2001 24 pp.
ISBN:
0-916101-38-X (Paper) $8.00
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
Fully Instructed and
Vehemently Influenced:
Catholic Preaching in Anglo-Colonial America
Joseph C. Linck
With a foreword by Robert
Emmett Curran
Preaching held an important place in the life of colonial Anglo-America, and yet so far little has been written on the subject of 18th-century Catholic homiletics. It has widely been assumed that, in comparison to Protestant sermons, little relevant material survived from the labors of the Catholic missioners of the colonial era. An examination of the manuscripts preserved in the American Catholic Sermon Collection at Georgetown University, however, provides an opportunity to test this theory. Consisting of over 450 texts preached in Maryland and Pennsylvania from 1700 to 1801, the collection represents just a small part of the homiletic labors of over forty missionaries (mostly members of the Society of Jesus). This study is the fruit of an analysis of the sermon collection, and offers many insights into their originality, the sources used in their composition, their presentation of Catholic doctrine and practice, and their attitudes toward contemporary society. The sermons (and various sources on which they were based) are surprisingly uniform throughout the century, and highlight the enduring concern of the Jesuit homilists for the well-being of their flocks, who were seeking to live out their faith on the “frontier” of the New World, both geographically and religiously. They sought both to instruct their hearers in Catholic teaching, as well as influence them to live out this faith in an oft-times challenging cultural context. The homilists placed a strong emphasis on the communal dimension of the faith, and commented on domestic life, slavery, devotional practice, social mores, and relations with other denominations and civil authorities. This study, then, through an examination of the sermons, opens a window onto the religious life and practice of these little-known pioneers, whose quiet existence has previously offered precious little access.
Joseph C. Linck earned his Ph.D. in Church History from The Catholic University of America in 1995. He has published articles on the spirituality of Colonial Catholicism and the Catholic Church in Pennsylvania, and was editor of Building the Church in America (1999), issued in honor of the seventieth birthday of Msgr. Robert Trisco. Father Linck has served as a Lecturer in Church History at St. Vincent Seminary, in Latrobe, PA, as an Instructor at the Franciscan University of Steubenville, and as a Newman Chaplain at Carnegie-Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh. He is currently serving in parochial ministry in the Diocese of Bridgeport, CT.
Robert Emmett Curran is professor of history at Georgetown University. He is the author of numerous publications, including American Jesuit Spirituality: The Maryland Tradition, 1634-1900 (Paulist Press, 1988).
2001,
224 pp., 11 Illustrations
ISBN: 0-916101-40-1 (paper over board) $35.00
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
A Gathering of Evidence
Essays on William Faulkner’s Intruder in the Dust
Co-published with Fordham University Press
Edited by Michel Gresset and Patrick Samway, S.J.
Among the stars in the American literary firmament Faulkner’s has remained consistently bright. What-ever litmus test one wants to use, Faulkner’s fiction has always been recognized as among the very best ever written in the United States. And thus it is particularly fitting that a volume of 12 essays focusing exclusively on Intruder in the Dust (1948) be made available for the first time to students of Faulkner, of whatever stripe, who wish to appreciate this novel in different contexts and from a variety of perspectives. In short, this volume is a gathering of all sorts of methodological evidence for evaluating a novel that is, in itself, a detective story whose resolution depends upon securing appropriate legal evidence.
A Gathering of Evidence 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.
Michel Gresset, Professor Emeritus of American Literature at the Institut d’Anglais Charles V of the University Denis Diderot (Paris VII) in France, has taught at San Diego State University, the University of British Columbia, and Harvard. He is the author of Faulkner ou la Fascination (Klincksieck, 1982, translated as Fascination: Faulkner’s Fiction, 1919-1936, Duke University Press, 1989) and the editor of Volume I of the Pléiade edition of Faulkner’s works and one of the co-editors of Volume III.
Patrick Samway, S.J., Professor of English at Saint Joseph’s University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is the author of Walker Percy: A Life (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; cited by the New York Times as a “notable book” of 1997). He has written a book on the manuscripts and typescripts of Faulkner’s Intruder in the Dust and also co-edited with Michel Gresset Faulkner and Ideology: Perspectives from Paris (University Press of Mississippi, 1983).
Essays in this volume include:
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276 pp, 25 Illustrations
ISBN: 0-916101-46-0 (Cloth) $34.00
“He Spared Himself
in Nothing”: Essays on the Life and
Thought of St. John N. Neumann,
C.Ss.R.
Edited by Joseph F.
Chorpenning, O.S.F.S.
The year 2002 marked a double anniversary for one of Philadelphia’s own, St. John N. Neumann, C.Ss.R.: the 25th anniversary of his canonization, and the 150th anniversary of his episcopal ordination as fourth bishop of Philadelphia. This volume of essays on Neumann’s intellectual formation, ministry, theology and spirituality commemorates these dual historic occasions. Among the specific topics studied are: Neumann’s student years in Prague, his namesake St. John Nepomuk, his ministry as catechist and bishop, his establishment of the 40 Hours Devotion on a diocesan-wide level, his devotion to Mary and St. Joseph, and the reference to Neumann’s ordinary and practical sanctity in Vatican II’s Dogmatic Constitution on the Church. This book hopes to foster a renewed understanding and appreciation of, as well as stimulate further research on, the only male U.S. citizen to be declared a saint by the Roman Catholic Church.
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Introduction
Joseph F. Chorpenning, O.S.F.S.
Part I
Theological and Spiritual Formation
The Several Lives of St. John Nepomuk, A Patron
Saint of Bohemia
Paul Shore
John N. Neumann’s Student Years in Prague,
1833-1835
Augustinus Kurt Huber
(Translated from German by Raymond H. Schmandt)
Reprinted from Records of the American Catholic Historical Society
of Philadelphia 89 (1978): 3-32.
Building a Foundation of Spirituality: St. John
Neumann’s European Years
Richard A. Boever, C.Ss.R.
Part II
Ministry
An Accomplished Catechist: John Nepomucene Neumann
Mary Charles Bryce, O.S.B.
Reprinted from The Living Light 14 (1977): 327-37.
Blessed John Neumann, C.Ss.R., Pastoral Bishop
Michael J. Curley, C.Ss.R.
Reprinted from American Ecclesiastical Review 151 (1964): 167-80.
“The Brightest Jewel in Their Crown”:
John Neumann and the Establishment of the Forty Hours Devotion in Philadelphia
Joseph C. Linck
Part III
Theology and Spirituality
“No More Powerful Friend Have We with God”:
The Marian Devotion of St. John Neumann
Thomas A. Thompson, S.M.
“St. Teresa says she never failed to receive
whatever she asked of you!”: St. Joseph in the Life and Ministry
of John N. Neumann, C.Ss.R.
Joseph F. Chorpenning, O.S.F.S.
The Second Vatican Council, 1962-1965, and Bishop
Neumann
Alfred C. Rush, C.Ss.R.
Reprinted from Records of the American Catholic Historical Society
of Philadelphia 85 (1974): 123-28.
Plates
Notes on Contributors
2003,
236 pp., 22 images
ISBN: 0-916101-44-4 (hardcover) $35.00
Hidden in God:
Essays and Talks on St. Jane Frances de Chantal
Elisabeth Stopp
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 third and fourth essays
in this volume trace with fascinating precision the changing image of
Chantal in hagiography, starting with the official Life of 1644 and going
on to the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. . . . The seventh essay
in this volume ‘Portrait of a Saint, twenty-five years on’ .
. . is a tour de force. . . . this volume contains abundant material to
indicate that Elisabeth Stopp’s ‘search for Chantal’ .
. . is rich in posthumous significance for our times.”
- Dermot Fenlon, Hallel
2000
122 pp., 8 b/w illustrations,
ISBN:
0-916101-34-7 (Paper) $ 19.95
The
Holy Family as Prototype of the
Civilization of Love:
Images from the Viceregal Americas
In spring 1996, Saint Joseph’s University mounted the exhibition “The Holy Family as Prototype of the Civilization of Love: Images from the Viceregal Americas,” which commemorated the 75th anniversary of the extension of the Feast of the Holy Family to the liturgical calendar of the Universal Church. The exhibition displayed paintings from the Spanish Colonial period, rare books and engravings from 17th- and 18th-century Europe, and lithographs and devotional paintings on tin from 19th-century Mexico and New Mexico. Culled from private collections, galleries in New York and Miami, and institutional collections of several Catholic universities, these art works offered a visual chronicle of the evolution of devotion to the Holy Family.
A catalogue of the exhibition, this volume contains essays on the historical development of the Holy Family devotion from the late Middle Ages to the late 20th century, the subject of the Holy Family in Western art, and the encounter of European and Inca cultures observable in images of the Holy Family in Andean Viceregal art. It also includes color photographs of books and art works exhibited, each of which is fully explained in accompanying commentary.
"[This] new, inch-thick
catalogue is crammed with information and novel insights… [It]
chronicles the development of popular religious devotion to the closely
knit family of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph of Nazareth.”
- Victoria Donohoe, The Philadelphia Inquirer
“Anyone who is more than
a casual scholar of Spanish Colonial art will find this a ‘must buy’
for inclusion in their library.”
- Barbe Awalt, Tradición Revista:, The Journal of Contemporary
& Traditional Spanish Colonial Art & Culture
“Altogether, the catalog,
which includes a rich corpus of related images…, is a significant
assembly and review of information on the cult and iconography of Saint
Joseph and a source of original observations on the works presented; further,
it addresses broad timely topics: the family, apocalyptic thought, and
the encounter of European and non-European cultures.”
- Carolyn C. Wilson, Sixteenth Century Journal
“excellent essays…artifacts
are illustrated in brilliant colors on good gloss paper…a feast for
lovers of art… devotion to the Holy Family is shown to be vitally
alive and an effective aid to the beleaguered family of today.”
- Joachim Smet, O. Carm., Carmelus
“The Holy Family as Prototype
of the Civilization of Love is an impressive documentation of an outstanding
exhibit and will reward the armchair reader with a wealth of informative
text enhanced profusely with illustrations throughout.”
- James A. Cox, Midwest Book Review
1996,
227 pp., 28 color plates and 167 b/w illustrations,
ISBN:-916101-21-5 (Paper) $ 45.00
The Holy Family in Art and Devotion
The Holy Family in Art and Devotion is a collection of essays on the iconography and history of devotion to the Holy Family of Nazareth. These essays were selected from among the papers delivered at the Holy Family Symposium, held in April 1996 at Saint Joseph's University, to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the extension of the Feast of the Holy Family to the liturgical calendar of the Universal Church. Literary scholars, art historians, theologians, and cultural historians study a wide variety of topics in depth: the portrayal of the Holy Family in medieval English mystery plays; the contributions of Ignatius Loyola, Teresa of Ávila, Francis de Sales, and the French School of Spirituality to the evolution of the Holy Family devotion; the rapid spread of this devotion in 17th-century Canada; devotion to Jesus' extended family, specifically the cult of St. Anne, in Colonial Peru; the link between Pope Leo XIII's promotion of veneration and imitation of the Holy Family and his social teaching in his most well-known encyclical Rerum Novarum (1891); the sacramental nature of family life. The volume concludes with two important documents occasioned by the Holy Family Symposium: a letter from the Vatican Secretariat of State reflecting on the Symposium's theme of the Holy Family as Prototype of the Civilization of Love, and a homily by Bishop Carlos A. Sevilla, S.J., bishop of Yakima (Washington) and a member of the U.S. Bishops' Committee on Marriage and Family Life, who presents a synthesis of the most significant elements of the teaching of Pope John Paul II and of the American bishops on the Holy Family.
1997,
122 pp., 64 b/w illustrations,
ISBN: 0-916101-25-8 (Paper) $ 29.95
Hopkins Variations
Standing round a Waterfall
Co-published with Fordham
University Press
Edited by
Joaquin Kuhn and Joseph
J. Feeney, S.J.
Warm, personal, original, Hopkins Variations offers fifty-five perspectives on the poet Gerard Manley Hopkins. Opening with an essay by Seamus Heaney, it offers the views of poets, actors, translators, scholars, theologians, an artist, a composer, a novelist, and a philosopher from thirteen countries. The essays present Hopkins as healer, wordlover, birdlover, musician, truthteller, poetic influence, creative theologian, naturalist, travel writer, dream-figure, Jesuit, friend, religious teacher, dialoguist with the Jewish midrash—even a swimmer, a carousel-rider, a teacher of feminism, and a hopegiver for Communism-weary Poles.
List of Contributors
Lionel Adey, University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Michael E. Allsop, Presentation College, South Dakota, USA
Brian Arkins, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
Richard Austin, Actor, Saffron Walden, Essex, England
Uwe Bõker, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
Ewa Borkowska, University of Silesia, Sosnowiec, Poland
Jerome Bump, University of Texas?ustin, USA
Mariaconcetta Costantini, Università “G. d’Annunzio,” Pescara, Italy
James Finn Cotter, Mount Saint Mary College, New York, USA
Renzo D’Agnillo, Università “G. d’Annunzio,” Pescara, Italy
Andrew Sean Davidson, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada
David A. Downes, California State University, Chico, USA
Desmond Egan, Poet, Newbridge, Co. Kildare, Ireland
Kazuyoshi Enozawa, Honan College, Nagano, Japan
Joseph J. Feeney, S.J., Saint Joseph’s University, Pennsylvania, USA
Francis L. Fennell, Loyola University Chicago, Illinois, USA
Ernest Ferlita, S.J., Loyola University, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
John Ferns, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada
Howard W. Fulweiler, University of Missouri?olumbia, USA
Peter Gale, Actor, London, England
Bruno Gaurier, Administrator and Translator, Paris, France
Ron Hansen, Novelist, Santa Clara University, California, USA
Seamus Heaney, Poet, Dublin, Ireland
Alan Heuser, McGill University, Quebec, Canada
Lesley J. Higgins, York University, Ontario, Canada
Tomiko Hirata, S.P.C., Shirayuri College, Tokyo, Japan
Margaret Johnson, Scholar, Willetton, Western Australia, Australia
Joaquin Kuhn, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Maria Lichtmann, Scholar, Boone, North Carolina, USA
Jeffrey Loomis, Northwest Missouri State University, USA
Norman H. MacKenzie, Queen’s University, Ontario, Canada
Paul Mariani, Boston College, Massachusetts, USA
Franco Marucci, Università di Venezia Ca’ Foscari, Venice, Italy
Francis X. McAloon, S.J., Santa Clara University, California, USA
John McDade, S.J., Heythrop College, University of London, England
Robert McGovern, Artist, Narberth, Pennsylvania, USA
Peter Milward, S.J., Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan
Michael Moore, Wilfrid Laurier University, Ontario, Canada
Jude V. Nixon, Oakland University, Michigan, USA
Leonora Rita V. Obed, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
Walter J. Ong, S.J., Saint Louis University, Missouri, USA
Catherine Phillips, Downing College, Cambridge University, England
Cary Plotkin, Barnard College, Columbia University, New York, USA
Gerald Roberts, Scholar, Crowborough, Sussex, England
Ned Rorem, Composer, New York, New York, USA
Rachel Salmon, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel
Kunio Shimane, Nagoya City University, Japan
Alison G. Sulloway, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ., USA
R.K.R. Thornton, University of Birmingham, England
Donald Walhout, Rockford College, Illinois, USA
Eynel Wardi, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Nick Weber, Actor, Nyack, New York, USA
Norman White, University College Dublin, Ireland
Thomas A. Zaniello, Northern Kentucky University, USA
Sjaak Zonneveld, Institute of Higher European Studies, The Hague, HollandJoaquin Kuhn (St. Michael’s College, University of Toronto) and Joseph J. Feeney, S.J. (Saint Joseph’s University) are co-editors of The Hopkins Quarterly.
“Each and every one of the variations [essays] contains jewels making this book a rare pleasure.”
- Studies 92/366 (Dublin, Ireland)
2002, 318 pp.
ISBN: 0-916101-39-8 (Cloth) $37.00
The Human Search for
Truth: Philosophy, Science, Theology
The Outlook for the Third Millennium
International Conference
on Science and Faith
The Vatican, 23-25 May
2000
One of the most important events that took place in Rome during the Great Jubilee Year was the International Conference on Science and Faith,“The Human Search for Truth: Science, Philosophy, Theology. The Outlook for the Third Millennium,” held at the Vatican from the 23rd to the 25th May 2000, as part of the Giubileo degli Scienziati. “Science” is here understood in its broadest sense, thus encompassing the experimental sciences, the human sciences, and the sciences of the spirit—philosophy and theology. Organized by the Pontifical Council for Culture, this conference emphasized the search for truth as a distinctive feature of all scientific inquiry by promoting a rediscovery of the sapiential dimension of the sciences: that is, research into nature and humanity must include a deeper awareness of its human dimension and of the human values which undergird it, so that as knowledge of the world increases, so too will the ethical values that give life meaning.
This historic event brought together Christians who are professionally involved in the world of science, as well as Christians of other denominations and believers from other religions working in the sciences who concur with the Catholic Church’s approach to scientific knowledge. Scientists and scholars from all branches of science met to discuss and 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).
Saint Joseph’s University Press is pleased to make available this collection of the papers presented at this groundbreaking conference that marks a watershed in the renewed effort on the part of the Catholic Church to build bridges between the worlds of scientific research and theological reflection. Not only will this book give a wider public access to this program, but also, hopefully, it will foster further discussion and reflection along the lines of the conference, serve as a resource in college and university courses in the disciplines represented, and inspire similar meetings of more modest proportions elsewhere in the world.
CONTENTS
Preface
TO PARTICIPANTS IN THE JUBILEE
FOR MEN AND WOMEN FROM THE WORLD OF SCIENCE (Giubileo
degli Scienziati)
His Holiness Pope John Paul II
OPENING ADDRESS
His Eminence Paul Cardinal Poupard
President, Pontifical Council for Culture
I.
PHILOSOPHY, THEOLOGY, SCIENCE
Introduction
Jean Ladrière
Meditation
Robert Sokolowski
Philosophy and Science in the Context
of Contemporary Culture
Josef Seifert
Theology and Its Relation to Experimental
Science
Bruno Forte
The Book of Nature and the God
of Scientists
According to the Encyclical Fides et ratio
Giuseppe Tanzella-Nitti
II.
NATURAL SCIENCES
Introduction
Nicola Cabibbo
Meditation
Peter Hodgson
Science and Faith in Interaction
Michal Heller
The Doctrine of Creation Out of
Nothing in Relation to Big Bang and Quantum Cosmologies
Robert J. Russell
Mathematics and Faith
Edward Nelson
III.
SCIENCES OF MAN AND LIFE
Introduction
Juan de Dios Vial Correa
Meditation
Elio Sgreccia
Medicine and Man: Human Ecology
Adriano Bompiani
Medicine in Quest of the Elixir
of Life
Andrzej Szczeklik
Artificial Intelligence and the
Study of Consciousness
John R. Searle
IV.
SOCIAL SCIENCES
Introduction
Edmond Malinvaud
Meditation
Hanna Suchocka
Faith and the Conception of Humanity
in Social Sciences
Margaret S. Archer
Economics from a Christian Standpoint
Rubens Ricupero
Moving from the Turbulent Twentieth
Century: A New Vision for Humanity for the Third Millennium
Janos Peréyi
CONCLUDING ADDRESS
New Perspectives for the Relationship between Science and Faith in the
Light of Fides et ratio
Joseph M. Zycinski
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
2002, 256 pp., 5 Illustrations
ISBN: 0-916101-42-8 (Paper) $35
I Leave You My Heart:
A Visitandine Chronicle of the French Revolution
Translated and edited
by Pèronne-Marie Thibert, V.H.M.
Introduction by Jo Ann Kay McNamara
I Leave You My Heart 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. Unlike accounts of other convents of this period, this is not a chronicle of martyrdom. Its author, Marie-Jéronyme Vérot, the monastery's mother superior, offers instead a narrative of divine intervention, as she recounts the intertwined tales of the virtually miraculous escape of her community from the terror and persecution of revolutionary France to re-found their monastery in Mantua, and of the providential preservation during this course of events of these Visitandines' most prized possession, the relic of the heart of their founder, St. Francis de Sales. In the ideological wars of the age, this relic represented an enormously important weapon, and the revolutionary authorities were anxious to confiscate it in order to deprive it of its charisma. But at every turn, these nefarious characters are frustrated and thwarted in their schemes by the simple, but resolute nuns.
The translation is preceded by a double introduction. The first, by Jo Ann Kay McNamara, author of Sisters in Arms: Catholic Nuns through Two Millennia (Harvard University Press, 1996), firmly situates Mère Vérot's chronicle in the context of the historical circumstances of the times, and of the evolution of Salesian/Visitandine spirituality. Complementing this approach, the translator's introduction provides an overview of the four major periods of the history of the Visitation Order from its foundation to the Revolution, as well as discusses how the relic of De Sales' heart came into the nuns' possession and the author's biography.
"[Mother Vérot's] letter remains to us as a testament to the courage and ingenuity of the 'simple women' who clung so fiercely to their profession and their faith in the midst of revolutionary turmoil. It remains also as an invaluable window onto the sensibilities of the more conservative forces who have been marginalized by the historian's magnetic attraction to the new and progressive in human history."
Jo Ann Kay McNamara from the Introduction
2000
160 pp. 6 b/w illustrations,
ISBN: 0-916101-35-5 $ 26.95
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.)
Jesuit Education 21:
Conference Proceedings on the Future
of Jesuit Higher Education
Edited by Martin R. Tripole, S.J.
"Jesuit Education 21: Conference on the Future of Jesuit Higher Education" took place on the campus of Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia in June 1999. This gathering brought together about 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. The three-volume conference Proceedings include these keynote speeches, as well as all of the eighty-four presentations made on this important occasion.
Click Here to view a complete list of presentations given at the conference.
2000
574 pp.
ISBN: 0-916101-32-0 $ 70.00
(Due to the excess weight of this volume, postage is $8.00 plus $2.00
for each additional copy)
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
Just
Man, Husband of Mary, Guardian of Christ:
An Anthology of Readings from Jerónimo Gracián's
Summary of the Excellencies of St. Joseph (1597)
Translated and edited with
an introductory essay and commentary by
Joseph F. Chorpenning, O.S.F.S.
Illustrations by Michael L. McGrath, O.S.F.S.
The Discalced Carmelite friar Jerónimo Gracián (1545-1614) was St. Teresa of Ávila's religious superior, spiritual director, and closest friend and collaborator. After Teresa had been cured of a crippling illness through the intercession of St. Joseph, she labored tirelessly to spread devotion to this saint. Gracián made a major contribution to the realization of this dimension of the Teresian apostolate by publishing his Summary of the Excellencies of St. Joseph (1597), which became the most important and popular treatise on St. Joseph of the early modern period.
Just Man makes available twenty selections from the Summary, translated into English for the first time. Each selection is introduced by a pen and ink drawing executed specifically for this volume by a contemporary artist and is accompanied by a commentary. The anthology is preceded by an introductory essay that gives the reader a firm hold on Gracián and the Summary in their historical context, as well as offers an overview of Gracián's life and writings and of the Summary's editions, origin, spirituality, and influence on art.
"Joseph Chorpenning not only gives
us a brilliant translation of Gracián's book, but his own commentaries,
following each of the chapters, make use of all the major books on St.
Joseph from the 16th century to the present.…This is a book that
needs to be read many times…This translation of Gracián's
book is for the reader an informative experience, but more importantly
it is a spiritual experience."
- Marcella M. Holloway, C.S.J. Review for Religious
"[This book] should appeal
to anyone who is interested in the lives of the saints. . . It should
appeal to anyone who carries the name of 'Joseph.' It belongs in the library
of every Catholic institution named for St. Joseph - parishes, schools,
hospitals, and other institutions."
- Kenneth Baker, S.J., Homiletic & Pastoral Review
"Chorpenning has the ability to
bring to life and to make relevant, without manipulation or forced interpretations,
the texts and the thought of a 16th-century author. This is a remarkable
achievement and an example for other scholars to imitate. This book is
also a valuable and estimable contribution to the theology of St. Joseph,
the fundamentals of which recently have been closely examined and explained
by Pope John Paul II in his apostolic exhortation Guardian of the Redeemer."
- Enrique Llamas Martínez, O.C.D., Carmelus
1993
272 pp., 56 b/w illustrations,
ISBN: 0-916101-14-2 (Paper) $ 21.95
A Man
to Heal Differences:
Essays and Talks on St. Francis de Sales
Elisabeth Stopp
No scholar has done more than the late Elisabeth C. Stopp to make St. Francis de Sales known, understood, and appreciated in the English-speaking world in the 20th century. This volume collects ten talks and essays by Dr. Stopp delivered or published over the past thirty years. These pieces focus on De Sales' education at the Jesuit Collège de Clermont in Paris, attitudes to friendship, literary art, ecumenism, reception in Anglican England, and links with other major figures of the Christian tradition, such as Francis of Assisi, Teresa of Ávila, and Cardinal Newman.
Upon her death in November 1996, The London Times described Dr. Stopp thusly: "A gifted scholar who achieved distinction in two quite different fields, Elisabeth Stopp was also a laywoman of quiet authority and influence in English Roman Catholicism." Dr. Stopp received her Ph.D. in 1937 from Cambridge, where she was later made a Fellow of Girton College and University Lecturer in Modern and Medieval Languages. In the area of Salesian studies, she published many articles and a half-dozen books, including St. Francis de Sales: Selected Letters (New York: Harper & Row, 1960), Madame de Chantal: Portrait of a Saint (London: Faber & Faber, 1962; Westminster, MD: Newman Press, 1963; Spanish translation, Madrid: Rialp, 1966), and St. Francis de Sales: A Testimony by St. Chantal (London: Faber & Faber, 1967). Dr. Stopp also published widely on German Romanticism. Recently, she completed an annotated translation of Goethe's Maxims and Reflections for the "Penguin Classics" series.
Dr. Stopp was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1963. In recognition of her scholarship in the field of Romanticism, she received in 1982 the medal of the Eichendorff-Gesellschaft. This is the first time the medal was awarded to a woman and a non-German. In 1986, she received the Cambridge Doctorate of Letters. Her Salesian work was recognized by the honor of Affiliation to the Order of the Visitation.
"This is a most attractive book
and should appeal to a wide audience, both Catholic and Protestant. As
an author, Dr. Stopp has some of her saint's qualities: a beautiful prose
style, a capacity to 'heal differences' in charity without compromise
of the truth, a lightness of touch that takes the reader into profound
subjects almost without noticing. There is much here that is fresh and
exciting."
- John Saward, St. Charles Borromeo Seminary, Overbrook, PA
"As a scholar of Salesian spirituality,
I often turn to the writings of Elisabeth Stopp to guide and inform me
in my work. It was thus with anticipation that I began to read this collection.
I was not disappointed. There is invaluable information here."
- Wendy M. Wright, Creighton University
1997,
202 pp., 8 b/w illustrations,
ISBN: 0-916101-22-3 (Paper) $ 21.95
Mexican Devotional Retablos
From The Peters Collection
The Peters Collection is a permanent exhibition of forty-four Mexican devotional retablos (oil paintings on tin), two 19th-century Mexican oil-on-canvas paintings, and two Philippine bultos (statues). In 1993, this remarkable collection was presented to Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia by Joseph and Ruth Peters, longtime retablo collectors and connoisseurs.
In Spanish, the word retablo usually refers to painted or sculpture retables or altarpieces that first became popular in Europe in the 14th century. However, in Mexico, retablo not only has the general meaning of altarpiece, but also the specific meaning of a small oil painting on tin of Christ, the Virgin and saints produced from the early 19th century through the early 20th century, when retablos was supplanted by inexpensive, mass-produced color lithographs. Retablos were intended for use as devotional objects by ordinary people in the privacy of their homes.
Since the publication of Gloria Fraser Giffords' pioneering study Mexican Folk Retablos in 1974, there has been a burgeoning interest in retablos. For example, in 1991 a major exhibition of devotional and ex-voto retablos, "The Art of Private Devotion: Retablo Painting of Mexico," was mounted with venues at museums in Chicago, Dallas, San Antonio, San Francisco, and elsewhere. In 1992, a revised edition of Giffords' book was published.
This catalogue of The Peters Collection aims to advance the scholarly conversation begun by Giffords and continued by more recent studies. It achieves this aim by sharing insights from the collectors into how and why this particular collection came together, in addition to information on the technical and stylistic facets of specific retablos in The Peters Collection. This volume also attains its purpose by presenting scholarly research on heretofore neglected artistic and literary sources for many devotional retablo subjects, as well as commentary on each piece of the collection that offers a more detailed discussion of the iconography of devotional retablo subjects than is often found in the standard works on this art form.
"handsomely produced… most
informative…"
— A. Gordon Kinder, Bulletin of Hispanic Studies
"The quality and usefulness of
this book are tributes to the donors, for their taste and philanthropy,
and to the institution, for using a gift collection to support original
research."