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ISBN 10: 1-55635-470-3
ISBN 13: 978-1-55635-470-0
Pages: 144
Binding: Paperback
Publication Date: 10/01/2007
Division: Wipf and Stock
Series: The Daniel Berrigan Reprint Series
Category: Theology
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The Discipline of the Mountain
Dante's Purgatorio in a Nuclear World
By Daniel Berrigan
In The Discipline of the Mountain Daniel Berrigan offers "ways of imagining our plight" through the poetic vision of Dante's Purgatorio. There can be found "a faithful vision, an alternative, a truthful image of God, of ourselves, of history."
Berrigan employs free, poetic adaptation of the original—its themes, moods, discourses, encounters—with a prose commentary relating the text to political-moral issues of the present day. With its themes of lust and hatred, religious strife and ecclesiastical corruption, military power and oppression, the Purgatorio is an apt allegory of modern society. Thirteenth-century kings and princes shade into twentieth-century colonels and shahs and juntas. The Discipline of the Mountain is evocatively illustrated by Robert F. McGovern.
Author - Daniel Berrigan
Robert F. McGovern
Foreword - John Dear SJ
"What is God saying to us, what would he have us do, as a seemingly irreversible course leads humanity, like a blindfolded beast, towards the abattoir? Might there be ways of coping, ways which might properly be named spiritual, surpassing whatever the politics of the Left or Right might offer?"
—from the Introduction
"Let us hope that our country will become wise. But until it does—-indeed, in order that it should—-we as its citizens must act on the wisdom of our own conscience. That, to me, is the ultimate meaning of what Father Daniel Berrigan, in prose and poetry, says and leaves unsaid."
— Howard Zinn
"Daniel Berrigan is a poet and prophet for these times."
—Jim Wallis, editor of Sojourners magazine
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