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Title

Testimony : the Word made fresh / Daniel Berrigan ; foreword by John Dear.

Author

Berrigan, Daniel

Publication

Maryknoll, N.Y. : Orbis Books, c2004.

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Description

xii, 227 p.; 24 cm.

Subject

• Nonviolence > Christianity
• Christian life > Catholic authors

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Foreword by John Dear, S.J. -- I. THEY SHALL BEAT THEIR SWORDS INTO PLOWSHARES. Courage is a verb: in other words, do it! -- We are filled with hope: the tale of the Plowshares Eight -- In better hands than our judges' -- Hiroshima and the church of the blind gods -- The cause is the heart's best -- II. THE WAY, THE TRUTH, AND THE LIFE. The face of Christ -- The "I Am" sayings of Jesus: in Christ, God imagines God -- Love your enemies: there is no just war; the gospel is always relevant -- Jesus and the Syrophoenician woman -- You shall love -- John the Baptist sends inquirers -- Christ before Pilate, witnessing to the truth -- III. PROPHETS AND PEACEMAKERS. The long loneliness of Dorothy Day -- Martin Luther King Jr. and the arm of justice -- Thomas Merton, friend and monk -- Archbishop Romero, the four churchwomen, and the Jesuit martyrs of El Salvador -- The colors of Corita Kent -- The promised land of Rabbi Abraham Heschel -- William Stringfellow and the eschaton -- The faithful witness of Philip Berrigan -- Poems for Philip in prison -- Homily for my brother, Philip Berrigan -- IV. SERMONS AND HOMILIES. Keeping the flame alive: Maccabees and the fire of peace -- Three youths and the fiery furnace -- Learn a lesson from the fig tree -- The world as machine, the world as vine -- Love one another as I have loved you -- Living as though the text were true -- The gods of the millennium -- V. CHRISTIANS IN A WARMAKING STATE. The prophetic, peacemaking church -- Prophecy -- The handbook of Christian refusers -- The trouble with our state -- A chancy encounter with an angel -- The strange case of the man who could not please anyone -- The Catholic bishops approve Bush's war (November 2001) -- The faith that seeks justice and makes peace -- Advent -- Our hope in Christ -- An ethic of resurrection -- Hope, that intransitive being.

ISBN

1570755450 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2004009729

OCLC

55106387

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library