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Title: Jeremiah: The World, the Wound of God by Daniel Berrigan ISBN: 0-8006-3138-2 Publisher: Fortress Press Pub. Date: April, 1999 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Daniel Berrigan, disturber of soporific peace
Comment: Jeremiah: The World, the Wound of God,is another In daniel Berrigans'series on "old Testament" prophets. His exegesis is not limited to Biblical times, as he attempts [with great success] to connect Jeremiahs' time with ours. Weapons of mass destruction,,aids,poverty,dicrimination are all still with us, despite what another reviewer wrote,and Fr.Berrigan shows us Jeremiahs reaction to like minded situations, and by default, ours. The book is an indictment of apathy,of governments and churches and NGO's ,etc. and corpoartions athat watch idly by ,wringing their collective hands, as innocents suffer.And Die. If you are willing to be challenged,to be unsettled,to look at things differently,then buy this book and savor it.Highly recommended,even more so in the present climate.
Rating: 2
Summary: Some good insight, but well, mostly not very good
Comment: Don't get me wrong, there is some good insight in this book. However, you have to wonder if this commentary is really "spiritual" as in the Christian tradition, or if he's just a burned out hippie-protestor.
This book seems to have been written by somebody who is still living in the 60's and 70's war mentality. It seems somebody forgot to tell Berrigan we are living in the post-cold-war and post-vietnam days.
Granted, this book has probably become a little more relevant in it's message since the events of 9/11, but still, seems that all the time Berrigan has spent in prison for his activities in protest has left him a little out of touch with reality.
Also, Berrigan seems a little "liberal." I come from a "christian fundamentalist pentecostal" belief, and it seems to me that Berrigan supports the "homosexual lifestyle," which is well, not biblical. However, I do agree with him that we should not pinpoint homosexuals, and make them objects of wrath and such.
While Berrigan does a decent job at showing an understanding of what Jeremiah probably went through, and what God was saying to the people that had turned their faces away from Him, he takes an extreme "poetic license" when it comes to quoting large sections of scripture. Berrigan really cuts out a lot of words out of the mouth of Jeremiah, and makes him sound as if He is suffering from schizophrina. He does this in an attempt to amplify a few key words, but well, seems to leave out all the other words that actually make a sentence intelligible. Also, the hack job on the words of Jeremiah seem to be to make what Jeremiah says more poetic.
The way he quotes passages might make sense if you are use to that coffee shope mentality, where you have somebody playing the drums really fast before a poet reads a broken up verse, with candels burning in the background, strobe lights of many colors composing a backdrop, and Isaac Hayes lightly playing the theme song for "Shaft" in the background. Or in otherwords, if you enjoy smoke and mirrors, with superficial meaning behind the words, then this will all be ok with you.
Also, just a warning: plan to read this commentary with a Oxford dictionary at your side. Berrigan uses a lot of "big words," which will lose many people. Keep in mind, I say this as a sophmore in college.
This book will probably also lose you half way through, because eventually, "you get the drill." Granted, it's not a heavy read, and it's surely not very long. Just do yourself a favor, leave this book in the warehouse at amazon.com. Eventually it'll collect enough dust that they will have to remove it because it becomes a fire hazard.
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Title: Isaiah: Spirit of Courage, Gift of Tears by Daniel Berrigan ISBN: 0800629981 Publisher: Fortress Press Pub. Date: September, 1996 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: Jeremiah (Interpretation, a Bible Commentary for Teaching and Preaching) by Ronald E. Clements, James Luther Mays ISBN: 0804231273 Publisher: John Knox Pr Pub. Date: March, 1989 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Jesus the Rebel: Bearer of God's Peace and Justice by John Dear, Daniel Berrigan ISBN: 1580510736 Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield (Non NBN) Pub. Date: March, 2000 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Ezekiel: Vision in the Dust by Daniel Berrigan, Tom Lewis-Borbely ISBN: 1570751358 Publisher: Orbis Books Pub. Date: September, 1997 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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