%0 Journal Article
%T Development of worshipping St. Joseph in the Church from Church
Fathers to Second Vatican Council ¨C theological starting positions and
devotion
%A Patafta
%A Daniel
%J -
%D 2019
%R 10.34075/sb.59.3.3
%X Sa£żetak Joseph occupies an important place. This worship began to fade away after the Second Vatican Council due to the crisis of theology and folly of devotion; recently it has experienced its slow renewal. In this paper, presenting the selected texts from the period of Church Fathers, through the scholastic theological reflection, to papal documents, we are trying to show the development of theological reflection and worship of St. Joseph from the period of early Christianity, to the period of Church Fathers and to the Second Vatican Council. The work itself follows this development through two great periods. The first period of theological reflection is the time of Church Fathers, especially Augustine, and the Middle Ages, the time when high scholasticism began with a systematic theological reflection on St. Joseph, when St. Thomas Aquinas laid foundations and St. Bernardino from Sienna contributed to the spread of devotion. The second period is the period from the beginning of the Catholic renewal to the Second Vatican Council, when theological thought ends up in the background and the center is devoted to the role of St. Joseph as the patron of the Church before the drastic changes that the Church faces in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The theological idea of this period is based on the development of scholastic principles, often without a critical approach and under the strong influence of popular devotions. The dominant role in promoting the worship of St. Joseph in the 19th and early 20th centuries was taken over by the Popes, who recognized an important and pious practice in spreading the worship of St. Joseph, the practice that encourages believers to recourse to St. Joseph with their prayers to protect the Church. Instead of the conclusion, there is a reflection that could be an incentive for a new rebuilding of the worship of St. Joseph in new circumstances in relation to the needs of modern society and the Church, without losing a healthy spirit and great value of the saintly figure of St. Joseph who has inspired the Catholic spirituality and devotion for centuries with a strong ecclesiastical dimension
%K St. Joseph
%K St. Augustine
%K St. Thomas Aquinas
%K virgin marriage
%K virginity
%K patron of the Church
%K Popes of 19th
and early 20th century
%K theology
%K spirituality
%K piety
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