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Title: Fighting the Lamb's War: Skirmishes With the American Empire: The Autobiography of Philip Berrigan by Philip Berrigan, Fred A. Wilcox ISBN: 1-56751-100-7 Publisher: Common Courage Press Pub. Date: September, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A wonderful book about a wonderful man
Comment: This book is an autobiography by Phillip Berrigan, a man that hated war and murder by nations and people. He fought for peace and justice but the state continually locked him up in prison for his beliefs. But that did not stop him from spreading the word of the Gospel and being and activist for peace, against war, invuluntary inlistment into the army and nuclear weapons.
Rating: 5
Summary: UNNERVING, PROPHETIC NON DRAMATIC telling of a life
Comment: Philip Berrigan,who beacame {in}famous for being the first Catholic priest jailed ON PRINCIPLE{for his destroying of draft files in Baltimore in 1967},has penned a sort of autobiography. Philip Berrigan has always been a huge burr in the side of everyone in power:religious superiors,wardens, govenment officials{his encounter with Rober McNamara during the war is telling}et,al. He has courage that is beyond my comprehension,continually going forth to non violently protest the ongoing nuclear threat{often by hammering a submarine,or desnt the hollow nose cone od a missle, the pouring blood as a symbol over the objects] For these protest, he has served the majority of the past 30 years in tough penitentaries.What would make this talented handsome intelligent man do such things? The story that he tells, almost mundanely is captivating. Childhood on the Iron range in Minnesota,Stern Irish father and sweet,loving german mother,brood of brothers,athlete,decorated soldier in WWII[they didnt give medals out for laying in foxholes},the he joined the only Roman Catholic order dedicated to serving Black americans, the josephites.{S.S.J} His older brother Daniel,Jesuit priest and famous poet and peace activist,was his role model on this. Throughot the momoir, Phillip Berrigan recounts the good life and hrad times of the next 35 years of his life. His eventual leaving the priesthood, his marriage to Elizabeth McCallister{a former nun , which coused much idiotic tounge wagging back then},his three daughters, his life in Jonah House in Baltimore,Md.{a kind of catholic woker house}, and his dogged, relentless pursuit of the Gospel truth as he sees it. Whether or not one agrees with Berrigan{and in the current climate, thew number of sympathizers must have shruken dramatically}, his almost sisyphusian struggle is admirable. Time alone will decide whethere or not Philip Berrigan has been a prophet or not. What he is is a courageous,honorable man who is willing to put his life, NOT YOURS, on the line for his beliefs. Now that is quite extraordianry.Good book, well written{if almost purposely low-keyed},simply astonishing story.
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Title: Disarmed and Dangerous: The Radical Life and Times of Daniel and Philip Berrigan by Murray Polner, Jim O'Grady ISBN: 0813334497 Publisher: Westview Press Pub. Date: May, 1998 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: To Dwell in Peace: An Autobiography by Daniel Berrigan ISBN: 0062500570 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: February, 1988 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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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: The Power of Nonviolence : Writings by Advocates of Peace by Howard Zinn ISBN: 0807014079 Publisher: Beacon Press Pub. Date: 12 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Dawn by Elie Wiesel ISBN: 0553225367 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 August, 1982 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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