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Author : Daniel Berrigan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 61 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (132 download)
Download or read book For Swords Into Plowshares, the Hammer Has to Fall written by Daniel Berrigan and published by . This book was released on 1984* with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Arthur J. Laffin
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1608990591
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Swords into Plowshares, Volume One written by Arthur J. Laffin and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2010-05-01 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why is nonviolent civil disobedience (divine disobedience) an imperative for bringing about disarmament? What is the connection between faith, nonviolence, and resistance? How does one prepare for nonviolent acts of resistance? How does one respond to the charges brought in court? How does one view and cope with the consequences of imprisonment? How have some people nonviolently responded to U.S. intervention in Iraq and Central America and in war-torn countries like Bosnia? What are the main tenets of U.S. nuclear and foreign policy in the post-Cold War era? What is the human cost of weapons production? What does it mean to live in a national security state? What are some of the challenges faced by people in the U.S. who are concerned about justice and peace? The primary goal of this revised edition of Swords into Plowshares is to provide some initial answers to these and related questions. Contributors to this edition include: Bob Aldridge, Daniel and Philip Berrigan, Samuel H. Day Jr., Jim and Shelly Douglass, Elizabeth McAlister, Molly Rush, and a host of other activists.
Author : Liane Ellison Norman
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1532607644
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (326 download)
Download or read book Hammer of Justice written by Liane Ellison Norman and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2016-08-23 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ""As a study of the nature and sources of personal heroism in pursuit of moral vision, this book is remarkable."" --Ramsey Clark ""Molly Rush is one of the pioneers and heroes of our modern age."" --Helen Caldicott, founding president of Physicians for Social Responsibility; founder of Women's Action for Nuclear Disarmament ""We are not exactly the world we were when Molly struck her blow for peace. One reason we are not is that Molly Rush defied popular wisdom. 'If it would do any good, ' people said, 'we'd do it too.' Molly did it without a warranty. She had no assurance it would do good, but she did it all the same. Her story is truly, beautifully, soundly, responsibly, and reliably told by Liane Norman."" --Mark Harris, author of The Southpaw and Bang the Drum Slowly ""Praising Molly Rush seems to me a redundant exercise; somewhat like praising the Grand Canyon or a Mojave sunset. She is, like them, a natural wonder. Spouse and parent, conscious and joyous spirit, friend and arduous worker, she seems to me above all a teacher of what the human might be. She lives her ideals."" --Father Daniel Berrigan, poet and member of the Plowshares Eight ""Molly Rush's story is a testament to the extraordinary strengths of 'ordinary' people. With warm sympathy and lyric grace, Liane Norman illumines Molly's discovery of strength and freedom, and with it the possibility of finding our own."" --Mark Sommer, author of Beyond the Bomb and The Conquest of War ""Liane Norman brilliantly tells the story of Molly Rush, a true hero of our time, resisting nonviolently the onslaught of nuclearism, accepting prison as an expression of love for her children and her country. Norman's faithful narrative ensures a deeply moving and edifying experience for any serious reader."" --Richard Falk, professor emeritus of international law, Princeton University; author (with Robert Jay Lifton) of Indefensible Weapons
Author : Kristen Tobey
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271078286
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Plowshares written by Kristen Tobey and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2016-09-01 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In September 1980, eight Catholic activists made their way into a Pennsylvania General Electric plant housing parts for nuclear missiles. Evading security guards, these activists pounded on missile nose cones with hammers and then covered the cones in their own blood. This act of nonviolent resistance was their answer to calls for prophetic witness in the Old Testament: “They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation shall not take up sword against nation; they shall never again know war.” Plowshares explores the closely interwoven religious and social significance of the group’s use of performance to achieve its goals. It looks at the group’s acts of civil disobedience, such as that undertaken at the GE plant in 1980, and the Plowshares’ behavior at the legal trials that result from these protests. Interpreting the Bible as a mandate to enact God’s kingdom through political resistance, the Plowshares work toward “symbolic disarmament,” with the aim of eradicating nuclear weapons. Plowshares activists continue to carry out such “divine obediences” against facilities where equipment used in the production or deployment of nuclear weapons is manufactured or stored. Whether one agrees or disagrees with their actions, this volume helps us better understand their motivations, logic, identity, and ultimate goal.
Author : Anne Klejment
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313370028
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (133 download)
Download or read book American Catholic Pacifism written by Anne Klejment and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1996-11-25 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of mostly original essays by scholars and Catholic Worker activists provides a systematic, analytical study of the emergence and nature of pacifism in the largest single denomination in the United States: Roman Catholicism. The collection underscores the pivotal role of Dorothy Day's Catholic Worker movement in challenging the conventional understanding of just-war principles and the American Catholic Church's identification with uncritical militarism. Also included are a study of Dorothy Day's preconversion pacifism, previously unpublished letters from Dorothy Day to Thomas Merton, Eileen Egan's account of the birth and early years of Pax, the Catholic Worker-inspired peace organization, and in-depth coverage of how the contemporary Plowshares movement emerged from the Catholic Worker movement.
Author : Sharon Erickson Nepstad
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521717671
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (217 download)
Download or read book Religion and War Resistance in the Plowshares Movement written by Sharon Erickson Nepstad and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-04-07 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nepstad documents the trajectories of various Plowshares movement groups, revealing how activist decisions affect longevity.
Author : Richard B. Miller
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226527964
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (265 download)
Download or read book Interpretations of Conflict written by Richard B. Miller and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1991-11-15 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With today's world torn by violence and conflict, Richard B. Miller's study of the ethics of war could not be more timely. Miller brings together the opposed traditions of pacifism and just-war theory and puts them into a much-needed dialogue on the ethics of war. Beginning with the duty of nonviolence as a point of convergence between the two rival traditions, Miller provides an opportunity for pacifists and just-war theorists to refine their views in a dialectical exchange over a set of ethical and social questions. From the interface of these two long- standing and seemingly incompatible traditions emerges a surprisingly fruitful discussion over a common set of values, problems, and interests: the presumption against harm, the relation of justice and order, the ethics of civil disobedience, the problem of self-righteousness in moral discourse about war, the ethics of nuclear deterrence, and the need for practical reasoning about the morality of war. Miller pays critical attention to thinkers such as Augustine and Thomas Aquinas, as well as to modern thinkers like H. Richard Niebuhr, Paul Ramsey, Martin Luther King, Jr., James Douglass, the Berrigans, William O'Brien, Michael Walzer, and James Childress. He demonstrates how pacifism and just-war tenets can be joined around both theoretical and practical issues. Interpretations of Conflict is a work of massive scholarship and careful reasoning that should interest philosophers, theologians, and religious ethicists alike. It enhances our moral literacy about injury, suffering, and killing, and offers a compelling dialectical approach to ethics in a pluralistic society. Richard B. Miller is assistant professor of religious studies at Indiana University.
Author : Murray Polner
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429980604
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book Disarmed And Dangerous written by Murray Polner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-02 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What transformed Daniel and Philip Berrigan from conventional Roman Catholic priests into ?holy outlaws??for a time the two most wanted men of J. Edgar Hoover's FBI? And how did they evolve from their traditionally pious, second-generation immigrant beginnings to become the most famous (some would say notorious) religious rebels of their day?Disarmed and Dangerous, the first full-length unauthorized biography of the Berrigans, answers these questions with an incisive and illuminating account of their rise to prominence as civil rights and antiwar activists. It also traces the brothers' careers as constant thorns in the side of church authority as well as their leadership of the ongoing Plowshares movement?a highly controversial campaign of civil disobedience against the contemporary arms trade and nuclear weapons.Murray Polner and Jim O'Grady plumb the Berrigans' contradictions: among them, Philip's secret marriage, while he was still a Josephite priest, to Elizabeth McAlister, then a Catholic nun, which led to their dismissals by their respective religious orders and Philip's excommunication from the church; and Daniel's speech faulting Israel's treatment of Palestinians, and the resulting criticism loosed upon him from pro-Israeli Americans and many of his allies on the left.Disarmed and Dangerous is a fascinating study of brothers linked by faith and the dreams of peace and social justice in a century bloodied by war, mass murders, and weapons of immense destructive power. It is, above all, an original contribution to modern American history that is sure to be widely read and discussed.
Author : Daniel Berrigan
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1725225085
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (252 download)
Download or read book Daniel written by Daniel Berrigan and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2009-04-03 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daniel: Under the Siege of the Divine is a powerful, poetic commentary on one of the Bible's most politically charged books by one of America's greatest peacemaking prophets, Daniel Berrigan. Using the insights he has gained from a lifetime of nonviolent resistance to war and empire, Berrigan walks us through these ancient biblical stories of nonviolent resistance to war and empire, pointing out how we can learn from Daniel and his friends to keep the faith, stay hopeful, and resist every war, injustice, and empire today. It is not only one of Berrigan's best books, but one of the best commentaries on the book of Daniel. Through the scripture and the author's life, we discover the power and duty of civil disobedience to the culture of war and divine obedience to the God of peace.
Author : Myers, Ched
Publisher : Orbis Books
ISBN 13 : 1608331393
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (83 download)
Download or read book Binding the Strong Man written by Myers, Ched and published by Orbis Books. This book was released on 2019-02-20 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is the first commentary on the Gospel of Mark to systematically apply a multidisciplinary approach, called 'socio-literary method.' Myers integrates literary criticism, socio-historical exegesis, and political hermeneutics in his investigation of Mark—the oldest story of Jesus—as 'manifesto of radical discipleship'." --
Author : David L. Schalk
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803293434
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (934 download)
Download or read book War and the Ivory Tower written by David L. Schalk and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In War and the Ivory Tower, David L. Schalk explores the public role of the intellectual in times of national crisis. He compares American responses to the Vietnam War with French responses to the Algerian War, finding many similarities in the way intellectuals voiced their outrage at the policies of their governments. At a time when national crises abound but protest is out of fashion, and intellectuals are possibly a dying species, this book presents a needed reexamination of what it means for intellectuals to speak out on issues of international importance.
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Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Win written by and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Arthur J. Laffin
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1725226863
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (252 download)
Download or read book Swords Into Plowshares, Volume Two written by Arthur J. Laffin and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2010-05-01 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On September 9, 1980, the Plowshares Eight entered a General Electric plant in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, and enacted the biblical command to "beat swords into plowshares" by hammering on the nose cones of two nuclear warheads and pouring blood on documents. Since that time, other small groups and individuals have entered manufacturing plants and military bases throughout the U.S., as well as in Australia, Germany, England, Ireland, Sweden, and Holland, to disarm components of nuclear and conventional weapons systems. As of Spring 2003 there have been over 150 people who, using hammers and other symbols, have carried out over 75 plowshares and related disarmament actions. This book recounts each of the actions that have occurred over the last twenty-three years and includes information about the trials and sentences plowshares activists have received. Photos of some of the actions and participants are also included in this chronology as well as other resources for peace and justice.
Author : Daniel Berrigan
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1556351054
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (563 download)
Download or read book Exodus written by Daniel Berrigan and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The prophets exhort us to defend the poor; but we lionize the rich. They assure us that chariots and missiles cannot save us; yet we seek refuge under their cold shadow. They urge us to forgo idolatry; but we compulsively fetishize the work of our hands. Above all, the prophetic Word warns us that the way to liberation in a world locked down by the spiral of violence, the way to redemption in a world of enslaving addictions, the way to genuine transformation in a world of deadened conscience and numbing conformity, is the way of nonviolent, sacrificial, creative love. But neither polite religion nor society is remotely interested in this--which is why Jesus had to translate and midwife the prophetic insights for his companions in their historical moment. Dan has done the same for us in ours. As this reading of Exodus attests, he has a keen eye for both text and context, and exegetes both with his life. Thus does he help us shed our denial, connect the dots, and move from our pews to the streets. --from the foreword by Ched Myers
Author : Thomas Riggs
Publisher : Detroit, MI : St. James Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1368 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Contemporary Poets written by Thomas Riggs and published by Detroit, MI : St. James Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 1368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reference work combines bibliographical, biographical and critical information on 900 living poets writing in the English language. Entries are arranged alphabetically, and this edition includes 120 new entrants, including Wendy Cope, Benjamin Zephaniah and Rachel McAlpine.
Author : Carole Sargent
Publisher : Liturgical Press
ISBN 13 : 0814637221
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (146 download)
Download or read book Transform Now Plowshares written by Carole Sargent and published by Liturgical Press. This book was released on 2022-02-15 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In July 2012, a Holy Child sister and two Catholic Workers committed the largest breach in US nuclear security history. They entered an enriched uranium facility armed with candles, bread, Bibles, and roses, to pray and paint peace slogans. As Transform Now Plowshares, they hoped to put nuclear weapons—which target civilians in violation of the Geneva Conventions and UN treaties—on trial, making international news. This book shares their discernments of conscience and the civil resistance legacy of Plowshares with its background of Dorothy Day's Catholic Worker, while also engaging the work of the Berrigan brothers, the Catonsville nine, and the recent Kings Bay Plowshares seven. Learn their stories and see the principles of Catholic Social Teaching in action.
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Publisher : Scholarly Title
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 636 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Peace Tradition in the Catholic Church written by and published by Scholarly Title. This book was released on 1987 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Companion volume to: The Catholic peace tradition. Includes indexes.
