No Bars to Manhood: A powerful, personal statement on radical confrontation with contemporary society (Daniel Berrigan Reprint) - Softcover

Berrigan, Daniel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1556354711 ISBN 13: 9781556354717

Publisher: Wipf and Stock, 2007

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author:

Daniel Berrigan, S.J., is a Catholic priest who was one of the most eloquent voices protesting the Vietnam War in the 1960s, and who has continued to be an outspoken activist against social injustice. He has been arrested more than fifty times and has spent many months in federal prisons. Berrigan is the author of numerous books, including (with Thich Nhat Hanh) The Raft Is Not the Shore: Conversations toward a Buddhist-Christian Awareness and is an accomplished poet. He lives in New York City.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wipf and Stock
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1556354711
• ISBN 13: 9781556354717
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 220