Research Catalog

Title

Joseph of Nazareth through the centuries / edited by Joseph F. Chorpenning.

Publication

Philadelphia : Saint Joseph's University Press, c2011.

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Additional Authors

Chorpenning, Joseph F.

Description

xi, 356 p. : col. ill.; 26 cm.

Summary

"A profusely illustrated book of collected essays by a distinguished group of international scholars. This volume survey the development in art, spirituality, and literature of the veneration of St. Joseph from the New Testament through the Church Fathers, Middle Ages, and Early Modern period, to the early 20th century."--Publ. description.

Subject

Joseph, Saint

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

St. Joseph in Matthew's Gospel / Joseph A. Fitzmyer -- St. Joseph in early Christianity : devotion and theology / Joseph T. Lienhard -- Becoming a father and a husband : St. Joseph in Bernard of Clairvaux and Jean Gerson / Brian Patrick McGuire -- Joseph in Siena / Herbert L. Kessler -- St. Joseph as Mary's champion : examining the distinctive connection between the "Madonna del Giglio," the "Compagnia di San Giuseppe," and the Church of San Giuseppe in Florence / Carolyn C. Wilson -- St. Joseph as guardian angel, artisan, and contemplative : Christophorus Blancu's engravings for the Summary of the excellencies of St. Joseph (1597) / Joseph F. Chorpenning -- The grand silence of St. Joseph : devotion to St. Joseph and the seventeenth-century crisis of mysticism in the Jesuit Order / Rob Faesen -- St. Joseph the superhero in "comics" old and new / Laurence Grove -- Rembrandt's Protestant Joseph / Larry Silver, Shelley Perlove -- The first church dedicated to St. Joseph in the New World : an Aztec-Christian chapel in Mexico City / Jaime Lara -- St. Joseph in Spanish American colonial images of the Holy Family : guardian of an earthly paradise / Christopher C. Wilson -- Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz and Sor Marcela de San Félix : their devotion to St. Joseph as the antithesis of patriarchal authoritarianism / Georgina Sabat Rivers -- St. Joseph, Loreto, and the Jesuit mission in New Spain / Clara Bargellini -- Noble consort : the image of St. Joseph in pre-Raphaelite art / Michael T. Morris.

ISBN

• 9780916101701
• 0916101703

LCCN

^^2010051362

OCLC

690585701

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library