Faith, resistance, and the future : Daniel Berrigan's challenge to Catholic social thought / edited by James L. Marsh and Anna J. Brown.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brown, Anna J.

Marsh, James L.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christian sociology--Catholic Church--Congresses.

Christian sociology.

Berrigan, Daniel--Congresses.

Berrigan, Daniel.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (399 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The book presents Daniel Berrigan Gs 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 for 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 and alternative to these realities. The aim of this book is to make Berrigan Gs thought and life available to the academic Catholic community, so that a fruitful interaction can

Contents:

Dedication ; Introduction; Berrigan's Life; About This Collection; Major and Minor Interrelationships; Future Questions; Philosophy and the Prophetic Challenge; A Theological Method; Daniel Berrigan's Theology: Retrieving the Prophetic and Proclaiming the Resurrection; Retrieving the Prophetic Character of Christian Faith; Peace, Nonviolence, and Resistance; An Ethic of Resurrection; The State of Resistance: On the Relevance of Daniel Berrigan's Work to Catholic Social Thought; Father Berrigan and the Marxist- Communist " Menace"

The Language of the Incandescent Heart: Daniel Berrigan's and Etty Hillesum's Responses to a Culture of Death Catholic Social Teaching on the Culture of Death; Active Love Is Brought Forth only by Labor and Perseverance; Methods of Nonviolent Resistance and Peacemaking; Conclusion; Self-Appropriation and Liberation: Philosophizing in the Light of Catonsville; Conclusion; Consecrating Peace: Reflecting on Daniel Berrigan and Witness; Dwelling in Peace as Consecrating Peace; Peacemaking as Agapeic Service; Peacemaking as Rooted in the Patience of Being; Agapeic Service Versus Erotic Sovereignty

Consecrating Peace as a Form of Witness Autobiographical Reflections; Bernard Lonergan and Daniel Berrigan; The Option for the Poor; Violence and Religion; Personal Musings; A Kind of Piety Toward Experience: Hope in Nuclear Times; Three Seminal Themes in Berrigan's Thought; From Peguy's Personalism to Marx's Historical Materialism; Spurning the World's Counsel; Two Jesuits: Daniel Berrigan and John Kavanaugh; Berrigan Underground; Rawls's Theory of Justice and Its Problems; Zinn's Challenge to Rawls; Zinn Reads Berrigan and King; Berrigan and Coles

Lonergan and Berrigan: Two Radical and Visionary Jesuits The Prophetic Critique of Sin and Culture; The Reign of Sin as False Fact in Society, Economy, Culture, and History; Lonergan's Radical Breakthrough in Economics; Conclusion; Government by Fear, and How Activists of Faith Resist Fear; Berrigan Learns to Speak Up; The Catonsville Action; Berrigan and Plowshares Disarmament in; More Recent Forms of Resistance; Conclusion; Announcing the Impossible; The "Global War on Terror": Who Wins? Who Loses?; Dow Chemical's Napalm: The Girl in the Picture ; The Defense Policy Board

PR Firms and Media Blitzes Campaign Contributions; The Revolving Door; The Obama Administration and the New Congress; The Lost; A Conversation with Daniel Berrigan

Notes:

Proceedings of a conference held in the fall of 2005 at the University of Notre Dame.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8232-3986-1

0-8232-4936-0

OCLC:

787845990