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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Berrigan, Daniel.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nonviolence--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Nonviolence.

Christian life--Catholic authors.

Christian life.

Physical Description:

xii, 227 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Maryknoll, N.Y. : Orbis Books, [2004]

Summary:

From courtroom testimony, to homilies, poems, and poignant profiles of such friends as Dorothy Day, Thomas Merton, and his late brother Philip, the writings in "Testimony" reflect the essential spirit of a modern prophet.

Contents:

I. They Shall Beat Their Swords into Plowshares

1. Courage Is a Verb: In Other Words, Do it! 3

2. We Are Filled with Hope: The Tale of the Plowshares Eight 12

3. In Better Hands Than Our Judges' 23

4. Hiroshima and the Church of the Blind Gods 27

5. The Cause Is the Heart's Beat 30

II. The way, the Truth, and the Life

6. The Face of Christ 41

7. The "I Am" Sayings of Jesus: In Christ, God Imagines God 45

8. Love Your Enemies: There Is No Just War; the Gospel Is Always Relevant 54

9. Jesus and the Syrophoenician Woman 63

10. You Shall Love 70

11. John the Baptist Sends Inquirers 75

12. Christ before Pilate, Witnessing to the Truth 80

III. Prophets and Peacemakers

13. The Long Loneliness of Dorothy Day 85

14. Martin Luther King Jr. and the Arm of Justice 98

15. Thomas Merton, Friend and Monk 102

16. Archbishop Romero, the Four Churchwomen, and the Jesuit Martyrs of El Salvador 106

17. The Colors of Corita Kent 113

18. The Promised Land of Rabbi Abraham Heschel 123

19. William Stringfellow and the Eschaton 131

20. The Faithful Witness of Philip Berrigan 136

21. Poems for Philip in Prison 140

22. Homily for My Brother, Philip Berrigan 143

IV. Sermons and Homilies

23. Keeping the Flame Alive: Maccabees and the Fire of Peace 149

24. Three Youths and the Fiery Furnace 153

25. Learn a Lesson from the Fig Tree 158

26. The World as Machine, the World as Vine 161

27. Love One Another as I Have Loved You 164

28. Living as Though the Text Were True 167

29. The Gods of the Millennium 171

V. Christians in a Warmaking State

30. The Prophetic, Peacemaking Church 175

31. Prophecy 178

32. The Handbook of Christian Refusers 180

33. The Trouble with Our State 194

34. A Chancy Encounter with an Angel 195

35. The Strange Case of the Man Who Could Not Please Anyone 197

36. The Catholic Bishops Approve Bush's War (November 2001) 200

37. The Faith That Seeks Justice and Makes Peace 202

38. Advent 211

39. Our Hope in Christ 213

40. An Ethic of Resurrection 220

41. Hope, That Intransitive Being 226.

ISBN:

1570755450

OCLC:

55106387