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Meeting for long, midnight conversations in Paris, two poets and
prophetic peacemakers -- one an exiled Buddhist monk and Zen
master, the other a Jesuit priest -- explore together the farthest
reaches of truth. East and West flow together in this remarkable
book, transcriptions of their recorded conversations that range
widely over memory, death, and religion; prison and exile; war and
peace; Jesus and Buddha; and communities of faith and resistance.
On September 11, 2001 Daniel Berrigan sat at his desk in upper
Manhattan writing a commentary on the Book of Genesis. As he
explored the goodness of God's creation, the terrible events of
that day stopped him cold. With countless others, Berrigan-the
tireless and often controversial peace activist-wondered how best
to respond, articulate profound grief, and shape a response. In the
midst of working with those ministering to rescue workers and
families of the missing or dead, leading prayer vigils, and
organizing protests against military retaliation, Father Berrigan
looked to Lamentations for wisdom and insight. This book is the
result of long, intense hours spend connecting that ancient text
with the modern world. In line with his critically acclaimed
biblical commentaries, Berrigan uses the lens of Lamentations to
explore the causes and repercussions of the events of September 11
and beyond. Here he asks, Where do we turn when the world around us
seems to be inextricably enmeshed in violent conflict? How do we
cry out for justice? Where do we find faith and hope to heal the
immense human suffering that surrounds us? Written in a style that
captures the poetry and power of Lamentations, Berrigan cries out
for peace in a militaristic world, calls for compassion instead of
retribution, gives voice to those caught in the midst of war and
strife, and names the evil in the world while lamenting the status
quo. Art by Robert McGovern illuminates the suffering of war and
the hope of the faithful.
Berrigan uses the story of Job to ignite our religious imagination
and show us the way to effective protest and true faith. Continuing
his series of livel reflections on Scripture, he inspires us to
action and assures us of God's fidelity.
And the Risen Bread is a culmination of forty years of poetry by
the late American Jesuit and activist Daniel Berrigan. Beginning
with poems written on bucolic themes, the book moves to those
dealing with the struggle against war. Included are poems written
from courtrooms and jail cells, as well as religious poems which
include the doubt and difficulty that arise from the many horrors
of our world today.
The renowned poet, priest, and activist brings to life his namesake
and role model, the biblical prophet Daniel. Daniel Berrigan's
powerful, poetic commentary on the biblical book of Daniel brings
to life a prophet who has as much to say to our hedonistic, warring
world as he did to the people of Old Testament times. Continuing
the series he began with Isaiah and Ezekiel, Berrigan fuses social
critique, Jewish midrash, and political commentary to bring us a
book of stylistic distinction and spiritual depth. A bold and
unorthodox application of the Old Testament to current political
and social discourse, Daniel is not simply a book about a bygone
prophet, but a powerful charge to all people of conscience. As
Berrigan writes, "There are principalities of today to be
confronted, their idols and thrice-stoked furnaces and caves of
lions, their absurd self-serving images and rhetoric. Someone must
pink their pride, decode the handwriting on the wall. Who is to
stand up, to withstand?"
A celebration of men's voices in prayer—through the ages from
many faiths, cultures and traditions. "If men like us don't pray,
where will emerging generations get a window into the soul of a
good man, an image of the kind of man they can aspire to be—or be
with—when they grow up? If men don’t pray, who will model for
them the practices of soul care—of gratitude, confession,
compassion, humility, petition, repentance, grief, faith, hope and
love? If men don’t pray, what will men become, and what will
become of our world and our future?" —from the Introduction by
Brian D. McLaren This collection celebrates the profound variety of
ways men around the world have called out to the Divine—with
words of joy, praise, gratitude, wonder, petition and even
anger—from the ancient world up to our own day. The prayers come
from a broad spectrum of spiritual traditions—both East and
West—including Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism
and more. Together they provide an eloquent expression of men’s
inner lives, and of the practical, mysterious, painful and joyous
endeavor that prayer is. Men Pray will challenge your preconceived
ideas about prayer. It will inspire you to explore new ways of
prayerful expression and new possibilities for your own spiritual
journey. This is a book to treasure and to share. Includes prayers
from: Marcus Aurelius • Daniel Berrigan • Rebbe Nachman of
Breslov • Walter Brueggemann • Bernard of Clairvaux • St.
Francis of Assisi • Robert Frost • George Herbert • Gerard
Manley Hopkins • St. Ignatius Loyola • Fr. Thomas Keating •
Thomas à Kempis • Chief Yellow Lark • Brother Lawrence
• C. S. Lewis • Ted Loder • Nelson Mandela • General
Douglas MacArthur • Thomas Merton • D. L. Moody • John Henry
Newman • John Philip Newell • John O’Donohue • Rumi •
Rabindranath • Tagore • Walt Whitman • many others
A classic of faith-based activism—updated for a new generation.
Why was Daniel Berrigan wanted by the FBI? Why did Robert Coles
harbor a fugitive? Listen in to the conversations between these two
great teachers as they struggle with what it means to put your
faith to the test. Discover how their story of challenging the
status quo during a time of great political, religious, and social
change is just as applicable to our lives today. Thirty years ago,
at the height of U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, Daniel
Berrigan, a Jesuit priest, was wanted by the FBI for his nonviolent
protest activities. He hid in the house of Robert Coles, who would
later win the Pulitzer Prize. The two began a dialogue that
encompasses a fascinating range of topics, from war, psychology,
and violence, to social institutions, compassion, activism, and
family life. With this expanded, anniversary edition of a classic,
new generations of readers can examine for themselves how
spirituality is not only for ourselves, but often demands action
and personal risk in the public arena. New to this edition, Robert
Coles offers historical perspective on this turbulent time and
assesses the progress of faith-based activism in the years since.
Daniel Berrigan challenges today’s activists in a new afterword.
Finally, a glossary of terms helps to clarify the key people,
places, and movements that are often the subject of the
Coles/Berrigan conversations.
This collection of 15 essays on various aspects of the problem of
evil brings together the opinions of well known authors from
various disciplines [philosophy, theology, literary criticism,
political science, etc]. This collection brings together a variety
of responses to the ancient questions of whether we are --
individually and collectively -- destined for evil. The history of
the previous century brought this question into the open
morepoignantly than perhaps any other before it. Not surprisingly,
then, what you will find here is a wide spectrum of opinions
concerning the mystery of evil formulated throughout the twentieth
century and at the very threshold of the twenty-first, which has
inherited all of its open wounds and nightmarish memories. The
pieces included here come from diverse fields: philosophy,
religious studies, psychology, history, political science, and art;
they also assume a variety of forms: essays, treatises, stories,
correspondence, and interviews. The reader should not expect that
the pieces collected here offer proven recipes of how to eliminate
evil from the world: rather, they present a compelling testimony of
human struggles with an aspect of our lives we cannot afford to
ignore. Contributors: Sharon Anderson-Gold, Hannah Arendt, Gil
Bailie, Daniel Berrigan, Albert Camus, John P. Collins, Thomas Del
Prete, Albert Einstein, Emil Fackenheim, Sigmund Freud, Philip Paul
Hallie, Carl Gustav Jung, Michael Lerner, John Montaldo, Susan
Neiman, Jeffrey Burton Russell, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Tzvetan
Todorov, Leo Tolstoy, Michael True, Nicholas Wolterstorff Predrag
Cicovacki is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the College of
the Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts, where he served as
director of Peace and Conflict Studies and editor-in-chief of
Diotima: A Philosophical Review. His publications include
Anamorphosis: Kant on Knowledge and Ignorance (1997), Between Truth
and Illusion: Kant at the Crossroads of Modernity (2002), Essays by
Lewis White Beck: Fifty Years as a Philosopher (1998), and Kant's
Legacy: Essays in Honor of Lewis White Beck (2001).
On September 9, 1980, the Plowshares Eight entered a General
Electric plant in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, and enacted the
biblical command to "beat swords into plowshares" by hammering on
the nose cones of two nuclear warheads and pouring blood on
documents. Since that time, other small groups and individuals have
entered manufacturing plants and military bases throughout the
U.S., as well as in Australia, Germany, England, Ireland, Sweden,
and Holland, to disarm components of nuclear and conventional
weapons systems. As of Spring 2003 there have been over 150 people
who, using hammers and other symbols, have carried out over 75
plowshares and related disarmament actions.This book recounts each
of the actions that have occurred over the last twenty-three years
and includes information about the trials and sentences plowshares
activists have received. Photos of some of the actions and
participants are also included in this chronology as well as other
resources for peace and justice.
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The Time's Discipline (Paperback)
Philip Berrigan, Elizabeth McAlister; Foreword by Daniel Berrigan
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On the face of it, Deuteronomy seems to be a book filled with
triumph -- the pronouncement of the commandments, the end of the
Israelites' long exile, the coming of the Promised Land. But Daniel
Berrigan here turns a searching eye toward this text and finds its
darker side. Moses, the people's leader for forty years, is denied
entrance to the land he dreamt about. The people desperately create
a golden calf to worship even as God is giving Moses the two
tablets. The Promised Land, full of milk and honey, is also full of
inhabitants -- gaining entrance means destroying or driving out a
number of its people. Berrigan draws clear parallels between
Deuteronomy's time of mingled triumph and broken law and our own
moment in history, uncovering the stories within the story of this
complex biblical book. With both great grace and incisive candor,
he turns Deuteronomy inside out and makes us look at it -- and
ourselves -- in a fresh light.
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Daniel (Paperback)
Daniel Berrigan
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Description: The prophets exhort us to defend the poor; but we
lionize the rich. They assure us that chariots and missiles cannot
save us; yet we seek refuge under their cold shadow. They urge us
to forgo idolatry; but we compulsively fetishize the work of our
hands. Above all, the prophetic Word warns us that the way to
liberation in a world locked down by the spiral of violence, the
way to redemption in a world of enslaving addictions, the way to
genuine transformation in a world of deadened conscience and
numbing conformity, is the way of nonviolent, sacrificial, creative
love. But neither polite religion nor society is remotely
interested in this--which is why Jesus had to ""translate"" and
""midwife"" the prophetic insights for his companions in their
historical moment. Dan has done the same for us in ours. As this
reading of Exodus attests, he has a keen eye for both text and
context, and exegetes both with his life. Thus does he help us shed
our denial, connect the dots, and move from our pews to the
streets. --from the foreword by Ched Myers Endorsements: ""Dan
Berrigan has given us a prophetic interpretation of the story of a
people's liberation from slavery, contagious violence, and the
shocking actions of an ambiguous god. Berrigan has lived out a
nonviolent exodus from our own pharaohs. His vision parts the
waters of empires past and present. This prophet, like Isaiah, sees
a divinely given way from the divisive exodus of our spiritual
ancestors to the hope of a promised land for everyone."" --James
Douglass, Catholic Worker, Founder of Mary's House and Ground Zero
Center for Nonviolent Action ""The retrieval of the prophetic in
Christian faith and practice is an underlying theme of the renewal
and revisioning in today's grassroots Catholicism. Perhaps the
prophetic voice of our time is that of Daniel Berrigan, SJ, whose
insightful writing and courageous vision has now become the
blending of activism and mystic wisdom. Berrigan on Exodus--a
profound journey back to the very roots of our tradition and a
clarion call to let ourselves be freed and chosen for God's work
today."" --Robert A. Ludwig, Director of the Institute of Pastoral
Studies at Loyola University Chicago ""In this lyrical, powerful,
and dangerous reading of the second book of Moses, Daniel Berrigan
does more than explicate or comment upon the text. Instead, he
invites us to fulfill the text through our own questions, reverence
and, as Berrigan says, indignation. To read Exodus is to truly
participate in the mystery of Scripture. A beautiful, challenging,
and invigorating work by one of our most fearless and tenacious
contemporary prophets."" --Karin Holsinger Sherman, author of A
Question of Being: The Integration of Resistance and Contemplation
in James Douglass's Theology of Nonviolence About the
Contributor(s): Daniel Berrigan is an internationally known voice
for peace and disarmament. A Jesuit priest, an award-winning poet,
and the author of over fifty books, he has spoken for peace,
justice, and nuclear disarmament for nearly fifty years. He spent
several years in prison for his part in the 1968 Catonsville Nine
antiwar action and later acted with the Plowshares Eight. Nominated
many times for the Nobel Peace Prize, he lives and works in New
York City.
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