Research Catalog

Title

Essential writings / Daniel Berrigan ; selected with an introduction by John Dear.

Author

Berrigan, Daniel

Publication

Maryknoll, NY : Orbis Books, c2009.

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

Dear, John, 1959-

Description

285 p.; 21 cm.

Summary

"Daniel Berrigan is a Jesuit priest, poet, and peacemaker, whose words and actions over the past 50 years have offered a powerful witness to the God of Life. Fr. Berrigan, along with his brother Philip, was one of the Catonsville 9, arrested and imprisoned in 1968 for destroying draft files in a protest against the Vietnam War. But this was only one step along a journey of faith. Through this selection from his many books, journals, poems, and homilies, a chronicle of Fr. Berrigan's life and work unfolds, from the early steps in his vocation, to his decision to cross the line and go to prison, his ongoing witness for peace, and his extraordinary commentaries on scripture and the life of radical discipleship."--Jacket.

Series Statement

Modern spiritual masters

Uniform Title

Works. Selections. 2009

Alternative Title

Works. 2009

Subject

• Spirituality > Catholic Church
• Peace > Christianity

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Daniel Berrigan's life and work : a brief overview -- Daniel Berrigan--poet, prophet, and peacemaker -- Credentials. Credentials -- Each day writes -- Insight -- These many beautiful years -- Less than -- Peacemaking is hard. Peacemaking is hard -- Miracles -- From Sharpeville to Selma -- You finish it ; I can't -- The alternative of nonviolence -- The face of Christ -- Death does not get the last word -- A new exodus underway -- Notes from the D.C. Jail -- The church after the Baltimore Four -- Night flight to Hanoi -- Children in the shelter -- My name -- Our apologies, good friends -- The burning of paper instead of children. The price of peace -- The trouble with our state -- The pentecostal fire of Catonsville -- Our trial with the Catonsville Nine -- The verdict -- Prophecy -- I was a fugitive from the FBI -- The dark night of resistance -- They call us dead men -- Certain occult utterances from the underground and its guardian sphinx --^
• We are forbidden to serve in their wars -- Letter to the Weathermen -- I will sign my name -- We have chosen to be powerless criminals in a time of criminal power -- Lights on in the house of the dead. September 27, 1971 -- Diary from prison -- Poverty -- Tulips in the prison yard -- Statement upon release from Danbury Prison, February 24, 1972 -- They shall beat their swords into plowshares. Swords into plowshares -- We could not do this -- When hammers come down -- The question of peacemaking. The soul of peacemaking -- Taking stock -- The great sign -- Block Island -- Pilgrimage to Romero's El Salvador -- Witness of the martyrs -- Blessed Franz Jägerstätter -- Some -- Walking with Thich Nhat Hanh -- The word made flesh. Genesis, the dawn of all things -- Kings and pathology of power -- Job's summons to live humanly -- Who are we, that you take note of us? / Psalm 8 -- They call you blind man : call their bluff / Psalm 10 -- Show me your face, O God / Psalm 61 --^
• I love your promise / Psalm 119 -- May I to my Lord hasten / Psalm 131 -- Hand in hand, heart in heart / Psalm 133 -- Jeremiah and the promise -- Ezekiel and the landscape of dry bones -- Daniel and the credential of nonviolent steadfastness -- Jonah and the whale's tale -- The imagination of Jesus -- Love your enemies, the just command -- The time to obey is now -- Good Friday -- The first nonviolent revolution -- An ethic of resurrection -- Love, love at the end. Consolation -- Vision -- Zen poem.

ISBN

• 9781570758379 (pbk.)
• 1570758379 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2009021053

OCLC

• 373050988
• SCSB-11045472

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library