Description: In Saint Joseph Leonardo Boff seeks to provide a
vigorous critique and theological analysis of Saint Joseph and in
so doing attempts to undo historical misconceptions,
misunderstandings, and cliches that surround the figure of Joseph.
The book provides a comprehensive view of the topic as it takes
into account biblical references, including the apocrypha, church
tradition, papal edicts, liturgical expressions, and various
viewpoints proposed by theologians. Boff is also concerned with
updating the figure of Saint Joseph; his first step in this
direction is to provide a clear understanding of the life of Joseph
as an artisan, husband, father, and educator. He then deals with
the issue of the importance of Saint Joseph for current issues
concerning family and fatherhood. Lastly, Boff argues that Saint
Joseph helps us to understand new facets of the mystery of God, and
the author does this through his argument concerning the order of
hypostatic union, where, according to his argument, there is a
relation between Jesus and the Son, Mary and the Holy Spirit, and
Joseph and the Father. Boff seeks here to fill a gap in the
theological literature, given that theologians have concentrated
their efforts on Jesus and the Son and Christology, and Mary and
the Holy Spirit and Mariology; but these same theologians have, by
and large, given very little time to the figure of Saint Joseph and
the Father and Josephology. About the Contributor(s): Leonardo Boff
was born in Brazil in 1938 and received a doctorate from the
University of Munich in Germany in 1970. For the following 20 years
he worked as Professor of Theology at the Franciscan School for
Philosophy and Theology in Petropolis, Brazil. During the 1970s, he
and Gustavo Gutierrez helped to define Liberation Theology. Since
1993 he has been a professor at the State University of Rio de
Janeiro, where he is now Emeritus Professor of Ethics, Philosophy
of Religion, and Ecology. He is also a member of the International
Earth Charter Commission. Boff is the author of more than 70 books,
including Jesus Christ Liberator: A Critical Christology for Our
Time. In 2001 he was awarded the Right Livelihood Award (which is
considered to be the ""alternative"" Nobel Prize) by the Swedish
Parliament. Alexandre Guilherme, the translator, does research and
teaches at the University of Durham, UK.
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