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Faith, Resistance, and the Future - Daniel Berrigan's Challenge to Catholic Social Thought (Hardcover, New)
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Faith, Resistance, and the Future - Daniel Berrigan's Challenge to Catholic Social Thought (Hardcover, New)
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This book presents Daniel Berrigan's contribution and challenge to
catholic social thought. His contribution lies in his consistent,
comprehensive, theoretical, and practical approach to issues of
social justice and peace over the past fifty years. His challenge
lies in his critique of capitalism, imperialism, and militarism,
inviting Catholic activists and thinkers to undertake not just a
reformist but a radical critique of and alternative to these
realities. The aim of this book is, for the first time, to make
Berrigan's thought and life available to the academic Catholic
community, so that a fruitful interaction takes place. How does
this work enlighten and challenge such a community? To these ends,
the editors have recruited scholars and thinker-activists already
familiar with and sympathetic to Berrigan's work and those who are
less so identified. The result is a rich, engaging, and critical
treatment of the meaning and impact of his work. What kind of
challenge does he present to academic-business-as-usual in Catholic
universities? How can the life and work of individual Catholic
academics be transformed if such persons took Berrigan's work
seriously-theoretically and practically? Do Catholic universities
need Berrigan's vision to fulfill more integrally and completely
their own missions? Does the self-knowing subject and theorist need
to become a radical subject and theorist? Even though the appeal of
academics is important and perhaps primary, because of the range
and depth of Berrigan's work and thought and the power of his
writing there is a larger appeal to the Catholic community and to
activists working for social justice and peace. This book has,
therefore, not only a theoretical and academic appeal but also a
popular and grassroots appeal. Given the current and ongoing U.S.
military interventions in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya, Berrigan's
work invites us to think about the justice of such interventions
or, given the destructiveness of modern weapons, whether the notion
of just war makes any sense. Given the recent crisis on Wall
Street, does it make sense any longer to talk about the possibility
of a just capitalism? Given the most recent revelations about
Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib, and Bagram, is it not imperative to think
about how torture, preventative detention, and extraordinary
rendition serve the ends of empire? In light of all of this,
doesn't Berrigan's call for a pacific, prophetic community of
justice rooted in the Good News of the Gospel make compelling
sense?
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