The Holy Family in Art and Devotion
Edited by Joseph F. Chorpenning, O.S.F.S.
The Holy Family in Art and Devotion is a collection of essays on the iconography and history of devotion to th 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.
Barbara von Barghahn is Professor of Art History at George Washington University in Washington, D.C.
Joseph F. Chorpenning, O.S.F.S. is the Editorial Director of Saint Joseph's University Press in Philadelphia.
Roland Gauthier, C.S.C. is Director emeritus of the Centre de Recerche et de Documentation, St. Joseph's Oratory, Montreal, and founding Editor of the Cahiers de Josephologie.
D. Stephen Long is Assistant Professor of Systematic Theology at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary in Chicago.
Thomas M. Lucas, S.J. is founding Chair of the Fine and Performing Arts Department at University of Sna Francisco; from 1988 to 1991 he designed and supervised the architectural restoration of the Rooms of St. Ignatius Loyola in Rome.
Scott R. Pilarz, S.J. is Assistant Professor of English at Georgetown Univeristy in Washington, D.C.
John Saward is Professor of Dogmatic Theology at the International Theological Institute in Gaming, Austria.
Carlos A. Sevilla, S.J. is Bishop of Yakima (Washington) and a member of the U.S. Bishops' Committee on Marriage and Family Life.
Christopher C. Wilson received his Ph.D. in Art History from George Washington University, Washington, D.C.; the subject of his doctoral thesis was the iconography of St. Teresa of Avila in Mexican Colonial Art.
Wendy M. Wright is Professor of Theology at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska.
1997, 122 pp., 64 b/w illustrations,
ISBN: 978-0-916101-25-1 (Paper) $ 29.95