Faith, Resistance, and the Future : : Daniel Berrigan's Challenge to Catholic Social Thought / / ed. by Anna J. Brown, James L. Marsh.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014
• MitwirkendeR: Baxter, Michael,; Brown, Anna J.,; Brown, Patrick D.,; De Nys, Martin J.,; Desmond, William,; Doran, Robert M,; Harak, G. Simon,; Harless, Christopher,; Jeannot, Thomas,; Ludwig, Robert A.,; Marsh, James L,; Marsh, James L.,; McBride, William L.,; Murray, Patrick,; Presbey, Gail M.,; Schuler, Jeanne,
• HerausgeberIn: Brown, Anna J.,; Marsh, James L.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2022]; ©2012
• Έτος έκδοσης: 2022
• Γλώσσα: English
• Φυσική περιγραφή: 1 online resource (398 p.)

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?

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Philosophy and the Prophetic Challenge -- Daniel Berrigan’s Theology: Retrieving the Prophetic and Proclaiming the 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 -- Self-Appropriation and Liberation: Philosophizing in the Light of Catonsville -- Consecrating Peace: Refl ecting on Daniel Berrigan and Witness -- Bernard Lonergan and Daniel Berrigan -- Kind of Piety Toward Experience: Hope in Nuclear Times -- Berrigan Underground -- Lonergan and Berrigan: Two Radical and Visionary Jesuits -- Government by Fear, and How Activists of Faith Resist Fear -- Announcing the Impossible -- The “Global War on Terror”: Who Wins? Who Loses? -- A Conversation with Daniel Berrigan -- Notes -- List of Contributors -- Index