Books written by Daniel Berrigan

Genesis: Fair Beginnings, Then Foul

Joseph catches sight of Benjamin . A catch in the throat . Whatever the intended scenario — cancel it ! He says abruptly to an aide : " Conduct them to my house .... " There , they are reunited with Simeon . Joseph enters .
Portraits of Those I Love

... her current book gave rise to among the sisters . The clan had been a long time recovering from the wounds of Al Smith's defeat at the hands of religious bigots in 1928. At that time the luck of the Irish had run out The Aunt 57.
The Nightmare of God: The Book of Revelation

And even that word seems mild in face of the utter defeat of the powers of the earth . They are simply swept aside like petty images of clay in a child's battlefield game . They are of no account , they are quickly disposed of ; on the ...
Portraits of Those I Love

Here are Thomas Merton, Dorothy Day, Peter Maurin--guides to the vision that has inspired Berrigan's own witness to Christian peace. Here is an unknown woman painter, dying of cancer but gifted with uncanny powers of insight.
America is Hard to Find

America is Hard to Find
Job: And Death No Dominion

Other Books of Interest Available at Your Favorite Bookstore DANIEL HARRINGTON , S. J. JESUS REBEL PEACE BEHIND ... An Invitation to the New Testament Daniel J. Harrington , S.J. Leads readers step - by - step through the entire New ...
The Trial of the Catonsville Nine

The result is a landmark work of art that been performed frequently over the past thirty five years, both as a piece of theater and a motion picture.This new edition includes Berrigan's original introduction, and additional materials by ...
The Trial Of The Catonsville Nine

In 'The Trial of the Catonsville Nine, Berrigan addresses the conflicts between conscience and conduct, power and justice, law and morality.
The Kings and Their Gods: The Pathology of Power

These two books of Scripture come to vivid -- and sometimes terrifying -- life when we recognize these undeniable similarities. The Kings and Their Gods reveals Berrigan in stunning form.
The Trial of the Catonsville Nine

Dan Berrigan fled but later turned himself in. The Trial of the Catonsville Nine became a powerful expression of the conflicts between conscience and conduct, power and justice, law and morality.
Wisdom: The Feminine Face of God

Navigating through the Bible's complex style--which intermixes poetry characteristic of the Old Testament and elaborate sentences found in Greek oratory--the author reveals the philosophical, ethical, ethological, historical, psychological ...
Ten Commandments for the Long Haul

First published in 1981, this book traces Berrigan's work after his release from Danbury Prison in 1972 for his part in the Catonsville Nine antiwar demonstration--from his experiences in Palestine, Northern Ireland, and France (where he ...
The Trial of the Catonsville Nine: A Play

In composing this book, I have worked directly with the data of the trial record, somewhat in the manner of the new 'factual theater.'
The Dark Night of Resistance

This extraordinary book, written during the four months that Daniel Berrigan was resisting arrest and living underground, is an unexpected gift.
The Discipline of the Mountain: Dante's Purgatorio in a Nuclear World

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.
The Trouble with Our State

"In this collection, I've brought together some of his most well-known political poems, poems from prison, poems from resistance, and a few never before published," John Dear writes in his foreword.
The Nightmare of God: The Book of Revelation

Written during the 1970s and early 1980s at the height of Daniel Berrigan's work to stop the Vietnam war and nuclear weapons, The Nightmare of God offers a stunning commentary on the book of Revelation as a textbook of nonviolent resistance ...
No Gods But One

Berrigan draws clear parallels between Deuteronomy's time of mingled triumph and broken law and the present moment in history, uncovering the stories within the story of this complex biblical book.
The Discipline of the Mountain: Dante's Purgatorio in a Nuclear World

" 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.
No Bars to Manhood: A powerful, personal statement on radical confrontation with contemporary society

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.