Daniel Berrigan: Essential Writings

Daniel Berrigan: Essential Writings

by John Dear
Daniel Berrigan: Essential Writings

Daniel Berrigan: Essential Writings

by John Dear

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Overview

"Our apologies, good friends, for the fracture of good order, the burning of paper instead of children, the angering of the orderlies in the front parlor of the charnel house. We could not, so help us God, do otherwise."

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 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.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781570758379
Publisher: Orbis Books
Publication date: 10/01/2009
Series: Modern Spiritual Masters
Pages: 224
Sales rank: 888,780
Product dimensions: 5.40(w) x 8.20(h) x 0.90(d)

Table of Contents

Sources 11

Permissions 13

Daniel Berrigan's Life and Work: A Brief Overview 15

Introduction: Daniel Berrigan-Poet, Prophet, and Peacemaker 21

1 Credentials 39

Credentials 39

Each Day Writes 39

Insight 40

These Many Beautiful Years 40

Less Than 51

2 Peacemaking Is Hard 53

Peacemaking Is Hard 53

Miracles 54

From Sharpeville to Selma 54

You Finish It; I Can't 60

The Alternative of Nonviolence 60

The Face of Christ 65

Death Does Not Get the Last Word 65

A New Exodus Underway 73

Notes from the D.C. Jail 80

The Church after the Baltimore Four 86

Night Flight to Hanoi 96

Children in the Shelter 101

My Name 102

Our Apologies, Good Friends 103

3 The Burning of Paper Instead of Children 108

The Price of Peace 108

The Trouble with Our State 114

The Pentecostal Fire of Catonsville 115

On Trial with the Catonsville Nine 124

The Verdict 135

Prophecy 136

I Was a Fugitive from the FBI 138

The Dark Night of Resistance 145

They Call Us Dead Men 148

Certain Occult Utterances from the Underground and Its Guardian Sphinx 149

We Are Forbidden to Serve in Their Wars 150

Letter to the Weathermen 154

I Will Sign My Name 157

We Have Chosen to Be Powerless Criminals in a Time of Criminal Power 158

4 Lights on in the House of the Dead 162

September 27, 1971 162

Diary from Prison 163

Poverty 175

Tulips in the Prison Yard 175

Statement upon Release from Danbury Prison, February 24, 1972 176

5 They Shall Beat Their Swords Into Plowshares 178

Swords into Plowshares 178

We Could Not Do This 187

When Hammers Come Down 193

6 The Question of Peacemaking 194

The Soul of Peacemaking 194

Taking Stock 197

The GreatSign 198

Block Island 205

Pilgrimage to Romero's El Salvador 206

Witness of the Martyrs 209

Blessed Franz Jägerstätter 215

Some 221

Walking with Thich Nhat Hanh 222

7 The Word Made Fresh 227

Genesis, the Dawn of All Things 227

Kings and the Pathology of Power 230

Job's Summons to Live Humanly 236

Who Are We, That You Take Note of Us? / Psalm 8 241

They Call You Blind Man: Call Their Bluff / Psalm 10 242

Show Me Your Face, O God / Psalm 61 243

I Love Your Promise / Psalm 119 243

May I to My Lord Hasten / Psalm 131 244

Hand in Hand, Heart in Heart / Psalm 133 244

Jeremiah and the Promise 245

Ezekiel and the Landscape of Dry Bones 249

Daniel and the Credential of Nonviolent Steadfastness 253

Jonah and the Whale's Tale 260

The Imagination of Jesus 264

Love Your Enemies, the Just Command 271

The Time to Obey Is Now 274

Good Friday 274

The First Nonviolent Revolution 275

An Ethic of Resurrection 276

8 Love, Love at the End 282

Consolation 282

Vision 282

Zen Poem 283

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