At Play in the Lions' Den: A Biography and Memoir of Daniel Berrigan eBook:
Jim Forest: Amazon.com.au: Kindle Store
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Format: Kindle Edition
File Size: 28478 KB
Print Length: 352 pages
Publisher: ORBIS (16 November 2017)
Sold by: Amazon Australia Services, Inc.
Language: English
ASIN: B0773RBR6F
Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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Daniel Berrigan (1921-2016), a Jesuit priest and poet, was one of the preeminent Christian peacemakers of his time. After gaining notoriety in 1968 through his role, along with his brother Philip, in destroying Vietnam-era draft files as part of the Catonsville 9, he helped elevate the Christian conscience with regard to issues of war and violence. Resistance to the Vietnam War was followed by decades of protest against nuclear weapons, including his participation in the first “Plowshares” action, the symbolical disarming of nuclear warheads.
But Berrigan’s efforts on behalf of life also involved care for the dying and ministry to those suffering from AIDS. Jim Forest, who worked with Berrigan in building the Catholic Peace Fellowship in the 1960s, draws on his deep friendship over five decades to provide the most comprehensive and intimate picture yet available of this modern-day prophet. Extensive photographs and quotations from Berrigan’s writings complete the portrai
Most helpful customer reviews on Amazon.com
Amazon.com: 4.9 out of 5 stars 14 reviews
moby pablo
5.0 out of 5 stars
Daniel's travels in the "underground "and prison are described; his various protests provide a roadmap for activists.
And Dan was a poet and writer of at least 50 books.
One realizes with the Forest book that the Berrigans had a program along with their pointed protests- a religious program to be sure- but something sturdier and older than such movements as Occupy or even Black Lives Matter; the brothers were (and inspire us to be) FOR SOMETHING! Black Lives Matter at least has a few leaders (name one), but black spokespersons like Cornel West and William Barber continue the “prophetic” condition. Where are the women? Elizabeth Warren?
All this makes this book indispensable.
When the Milwaukee 14 (Forest was a member) burned draft files, they sang "Ding dong, the wicked witch is dead" (from the "Wizard of Oz"). A book like this can help melt the shoes off of the military-industrial generals now in charge.
Read less10 people found this helpful.
tony dalton
5.0 out of 5 stars
I still am completing the book but can justly say that the book is hard to put down and the author has both the capacity and sensitivity to describe and take one into the heart and soul of this amazing man.
A priest who has made such a mark on the social justice and peace arena in the US, for so many years.
Daniel Berrigan and his brother Phil are larger than life, very different yet complementary siblings who changed so much of how we think of what went on in the US in the social justice world and, in particular during the Vietnam war.
I think that there is so much can be said in recommending this book, but I will attempt to sum up what it has done for me,
I now live in a sort of healthy uneasy way, healthy because I now understand so much of the depth of the trauma of a nation seen through the eyes of someone who loved, and put himself on the line for what he believed in.
Uneasy because it is no longer simple for me to look at the complex world so lacking in social justice, Berrigan has opened my eyes forever.
Forest has zoomed in on a life that is almost indescribable, each critical event in the development of Berrigan is so well revealed, you just live it.
Not least because of his rather dysfunctional family origins.
Read less3 people found this helpful.
Lyn Isbell
5.0 out of 5 starsBeautifully-written, with plentiful photographs, witty and detailed, ...
6 December 2017 - Published on Amazon.com
Verified Purchase
Beautifully-written, with plentiful photographs, witty and detailed, this is a page-turner. I am giving copies to family and friends to sustain them in these perilous times. Impossible though it sounds, this book is both challenging and comforting. Well-done, Jim Forest. Profound gratitude.5 people found this helpful.
jimsgirl
5.0 out of 5 starsExcellent presentation of the life of Daniel Berrigan SJ
10 June 2018 - Published on Amazon.com
Verified Purchase
Excellent presentation of the life of Daniel Berrigan SJ, by Jim Forest,, a friend who walked the walk with Berrigan. Lots of wonderful photographs bring you closer to the subject: a good priest and humanitarian who put his life on the line for peace.
A Reader in Washington DC
5.0 out of 5 starsA primer for the next generation of true activists
9 March 2018 - Published on Amazon.com
Verified Purchase
There is an authenticity to this that other books about Berrigan don't share. It sounds fresh, believable, and it is an essential read.
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Format: Kindle Edition
File Size: 28478 KB
Print Length: 352 pages
Publisher: ORBIS (16 November 2017)
Sold by: Amazon Australia Services, Inc.
Language: English
ASIN: B0773RBR6F
Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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Daniel Berrigan (1921-2016), a Jesuit priest and poet, was one of the preeminent Christian peacemakers of his time. After gaining notoriety in 1968 through his role, along with his brother Philip, in destroying Vietnam-era draft files as part of the Catonsville 9, he helped elevate the Christian conscience with regard to issues of war and violence. Resistance to the Vietnam War was followed by decades of protest against nuclear weapons, including his participation in the first “Plowshares” action, the symbolical disarming of nuclear warheads.
But Berrigan’s efforts on behalf of life also involved care for the dying and ministry to those suffering from AIDS. Jim Forest, who worked with Berrigan in building the Catholic Peace Fellowship in the 1960s, draws on his deep friendship over five decades to provide the most comprehensive and intimate picture yet available of this modern-day prophet. Extensive photographs and quotations from Berrigan’s writings complete the portrai
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"As Jim Forest's biography demonstrates, Daniel Berrigan's life was a full measure of grace that soared up and flowed out of all those times and places that witnessed his unyielding personal commitment in word and deed to peace and social justice, his deep compassion and disarming humor, and the consistently heroic levels of his nonviolent resistance that took our breath away and renewed the face of the earth." --Martin Sheen
"There is no better general introduction to the life of Dan Berrigan, one of the greatest Christians of our age, of any age, than this deeply researched, highly personal, beautifully written biography by his friend Jim Forest." --James Martin, SJ, author, The Jesuit Guide to Almost Everything
"It is hard to deny that God prepares and then uses certain people for very special tasks. You will see that is eminently the case with Daniel Berrigan. . . Read, and enter into a much larger world." --Richard Rohr, O.F.M., Center for Action and Contemplation
"There is no better general introduction to the life of Dan Berrigan, one of the greatest Christians of our age, of any age, than this deeply researched, highly personal, beautifully written biography by his friend Jim Forest." --James Martin, SJ, author, The Jesuit Guide to Almost Everything
"It is hard to deny that God prepares and then uses certain people for very special tasks. You will see that is eminently the case with Daniel Berrigan. . . Read, and enter into a much larger world." --Richard Rohr, O.F.M., Center for Action and Contemplation
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Daniel Berrigan (1921-2016), a Jesuit priest and poet, was one of the preeminent Christian peacemakers of his time. After gaining notoriety in 1968 through his role, along with his brother Philip, in destroying Vietnam-era draft files as part of the Catonsville 9, he helped elevate the Christian conscience with regard to issues of war and violence. Resistance to the Vietnam War was followed by decades of protest against nuclear weapons, including his participation in the first “Plowshares” action, the symbolical disarming of nuclear warheads.
But Berrigan’s efforts on behalf of life also involved care for the dying and ministry to those suffering from AIDS. Jim Forest, who worked with Berrigan in building the Catholic Peace Fellowship in the 1960s, draws on his deep friendship over five decades to provide the most comprehensive and intimate picture yet available of this modern-day prophet. Extensive photographs and quotations from Berrigan’s writings complete the portrait.
But Berrigan’s efforts on behalf of life also involved care for the dying and ministry to those suffering from AIDS. Jim Forest, who worked with Berrigan in building the Catholic Peace Fellowship in the 1960s, draws on his deep friendship over five decades to provide the most comprehensive and intimate picture yet available of this modern-day prophet. Extensive photographs and quotations from Berrigan’s writings complete the portrait.
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Most helpful customer reviews on Amazon.com
Amazon.com: 4.9 out of 5 stars 14 reviews
moby pablo
5.0 out of 5 stars
Changing them for the better! Daniel's travels in the "underground "and prison are ...
5 November 2017 - Published on Amazon.com
Verified Purchase
Jim Forest's book is so needed as of NOW! The lion's den of trump surrounds us and Forest's book presents the saintly peacenik, Father Daniel Berrigan, S J- as an antidote.
5 November 2017 - Published on Amazon.com
Verified Purchase
Jim Forest's book is so needed as of NOW! The lion's den of trump surrounds us and Forest's book presents the saintly peacenik, Father Daniel Berrigan, S J- as an antidote.
The book is copiously illustrated with photos and Forest, a protester and biographer of possible Saint Dorothy Day, knows whereof he writes. Sometimes persons question the results of such actions by Berrigan as the anti draft action of the Catonsville 9 or the Plowshares anti nuclear actions to follow? As Forest writes- one result was changing lives! Not just ending the draft but actually changing lives! Changing them for the better!
Daniel's travels in the "underground "and prison are described; his various protests provide a roadmap for activists.
And Dan was a poet and writer of at least 50 books.
One realizes with the Forest book that the Berrigans had a program along with their pointed protests- a religious program to be sure- but something sturdier and older than such movements as Occupy or even Black Lives Matter; the brothers were (and inspire us to be) FOR SOMETHING! Black Lives Matter at least has a few leaders (name one), but black spokespersons like Cornel West and William Barber continue the “prophetic” condition. Where are the women? Elizabeth Warren?
All this makes this book indispensable.
When the Milwaukee 14 (Forest was a member) burned draft files, they sang "Ding dong, the wicked witch is dead" (from the "Wizard of Oz"). A book like this can help melt the shoes off of the military-industrial generals now in charge.
Read less10 people found this helpful.
tony dalton
5.0 out of 5 stars
A man wanted by the FBI, described as dangerous, Berrigan had never owned or carried a weapon.
15 June 2018 - Published on Amazon.com
Verified Purchase
This book so impresses from the start that even before completing reading the book, I purchased a copy to be sent to a relative in Canada
15 June 2018 - Published on Amazon.com
Verified Purchase
This book so impresses from the start that even before completing reading the book, I purchased a copy to be sent to a relative in Canada
I still am completing the book but can justly say that the book is hard to put down and the author has both the capacity and sensitivity to describe and take one into the heart and soul of this amazing man.
A priest who has made such a mark on the social justice and peace arena in the US, for so many years.
Daniel Berrigan and his brother Phil are larger than life, very different yet complementary siblings who changed so much of how we think of what went on in the US in the social justice world and, in particular during the Vietnam war.
I think that there is so much can be said in recommending this book, but I will attempt to sum up what it has done for me,
I now live in a sort of healthy uneasy way, healthy because I now understand so much of the depth of the trauma of a nation seen through the eyes of someone who loved, and put himself on the line for what he believed in.
Uneasy because it is no longer simple for me to look at the complex world so lacking in social justice, Berrigan has opened my eyes forever.
Forest has zoomed in on a life that is almost indescribable, each critical event in the development of Berrigan is so well revealed, you just live it.
Not least because of his rather dysfunctional family origins.
Read less3 people found this helpful.
Lyn Isbell
5.0 out of 5 starsBeautifully-written, with plentiful photographs, witty and detailed, ...
6 December 2017 - Published on Amazon.com
Verified Purchase
Beautifully-written, with plentiful photographs, witty and detailed, this is a page-turner. I am giving copies to family and friends to sustain them in these perilous times. Impossible though it sounds, this book is both challenging and comforting. Well-done, Jim Forest. Profound gratitude.5 people found this helpful.
jimsgirl
5.0 out of 5 starsExcellent presentation of the life of Daniel Berrigan SJ
10 June 2018 - Published on Amazon.com
Verified Purchase
Excellent presentation of the life of Daniel Berrigan SJ, by Jim Forest,, a friend who walked the walk with Berrigan. Lots of wonderful photographs bring you closer to the subject: a good priest and humanitarian who put his life on the line for peace.
A Reader in Washington DC
5.0 out of 5 starsA primer for the next generation of true activists
9 March 2018 - Published on Amazon.com
Verified Purchase
There is an authenticity to this that other books about Berrigan don't share. It sounds fresh, believable, and it is an essential read.
