Faith, Resistance, and the Future: Daniel Berrigan's Challenge to Catholic Social Thought

Published by Fordham University Press 2012

Faith, Resistance, and the Future

Daniel Berrigan's Challenge to Catholic Social Thought

Edited by: James L. Marsh and Anna J. Brown

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823291502

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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 Guantánamo, 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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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction James L Marsh and Anna J. Brown Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Philosophy and the Prophetic Challenge Martin J. De Nys Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	22
Daniel Berrigan’s Theology: Retrieving the Prophetic and Proclaiming the Resurrection Robert A. Ludwig Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	30
The State of Resistance: On the Relevance of Daniel Berrigan’s Work to Catholic Social Thought Michael Baxter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	41
Father Berrigan and the Marxist-Communist “Menace” William L. McBride Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	49
The Language of the Incandescent Heart: Daniel Berrigan’s and Etty Hillesum’s Responses to a Culture of Death Anna J. Brown Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	57
Self-Appropriation and Liberation: Philosophizing in the Light of Catonsville James L. Marsh Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	80
Consecrating Peace: Refl ecting on Daniel Berrigan and Witness William Desmond Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	100
Bernard Lonergan and Daniel Berrigan Robert M Doran Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	119
Kind of Piety Toward Experience: Hope in Nuclear Times Patrick Murray and Jeanne Schuler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	132
Berrigan Underground Thomas Jeannot Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	155
Lonergan and Berrigan: Two Radical and Visionary Jesuits Patrick D. Brown Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	183
Government by Fear, and How Activists of Faith Resist Fear Gail M. Presbey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	209
Announcing the Impossible Christopher Harless Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	237
The “Global War on Terror”: Who Wins? Who Loses? G. Simon Harak Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	248
A Conversation with Daniel Berrigan Anna J. Brown and James L. Marsh Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	285
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	295
List of Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	379
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	385

Language: English
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 398

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