Synagoga and Ecclesia in Our Time (Model)

Sculpture

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Frances M. Maguire Art Museum

Name/Title

Synagoga and Ecclesia in Our Time (Model)

Entry/Object ID

2015.12.1

Description

A scale bronze model on a wood base of the Synagoga and Ecclesia in Our Time statue that is located on campus outside of the Chapel of Saint Joseph’s.

Artwork Details

Medium

Bronze

Made/Created

Artist Information

Artist

Joshua Koffman

Role

Artist

Date made

2015

Time Period

21st Century

Interpretative Labels

Label Type

Credit Line

Label

Gift of Carmen R. Croce, '71

Label

The statue was commissioned by Saint Joseph's University to mark the 50th anniversary of the Second Vatican Council declaration, Nostra Aetate, which rejected the hostile depictions of relations between Synagoga and Ecclesia that were popular in the Middle Ages. The statue reinterprets the medieval motif to reflect Catholic teaching today. The Synagogue and Church are depicted as both proud crowned women, living in covenant with God side by side, and learning from one another’s sacred texts and traditions about their distinctive experiences of the Holy One. The statue was blessed by Pope Francis in 2015.