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.
