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ISBN 10: 1-55635-471-1
ISBN 13: 978-1-55635-471-7
Pages: 220
Binding: Paperback
Publication Date: 10/01/2007
Division: Wipf and Stock
Series: The Daniel Berrigan Reprint Series
Category: Theology
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No Bars to Manhood
A powerful, personal statement on radical confrontation with contemporary society
By Daniel Berrigan
Committed radical that he is, Daniel Berrigan, launches his personal rockets against the social evils that disturb and preoccupy him. Beginning with a long autobiographical piece he traces the influences that brought him first to a radical stance and then to a direct confrontation with society. From this very intimate statement he develops his theme of a need for nonviolent revolutionary change in his reflections on his own trial and sentencing, in his thoughtful examination of the true implications of Christianity, and in his consideration of prophets as revolutionaries.
In a long dialog with an SDS student about the 1969 Black/White confrontation at Cornell University, he relates the questions raised by that crisis to the larger crises of American life. Finally, he directs two stinging parables at the well-fed and the complacent. Probing and provocative, this work illuminates starkly the agonizing decisions people must make.
Author - Daniel Berrigan
Foreword - John Dear SJ
"Daniel Berrigan is a poet and prophet for these times."
—Jim Wallis, editor of Sojourners magazine
"Daniel Berrigan s the sort of priest who causes he lights of the Vatican to burn through the night."
—Newsweek
"His voice is one that should not be missing from the public debate over all the questions concerning war and peace and the future shape of American society that press hard upon consciences today."
—The New York Review of Books
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