Daniel
Under Siege of the Divine
by Daniel Berrigan
This hardcover with dust jacket is a former library book and in very good condition with minor shelf wear. It has the typical labels and library markings but no other writing or highlighting. The dust jacket is protected by a clear plastic cover.
219 pages, 1998 edition, ISBN 0874869528, Plough Publishing
From the Publisher
No one who reads Berrigan will read the Bible in the same way again. Under his pen, legendary heroes such as Daniel live in a world uncomfortably like our own. Daniel's dilemmas are strikingly contemporary, his prophecy disturbingly relevant.
If you're looking for a verse-by-verse bible study or theological analysis, stop here. This isn't the book for you. Berrigan's poetic journey through the Book of Daniel is loaded with spiritual, social and political charges. Like Daniel, Berrigan speaks boldly. He scrutinizes Daniel's actions in one paragraph, and our own in the next. He brings us a prophet who has as much to say to our hedonistic, warring world as he did to the people of Old Testament times.
There are several recurring themes: The conflict of conscience. Daniel's "no" of resistance and obedience. The blessings that follow fidelity. A believing community standing against worldly power. The divine judgment that the mighty fear and the lowly welcome as their liberation and vindication. The fall of empires. Sprinkled throughout with what Berrigan calls "the saving humor of resistance".
Poet, priest and activist, Daniel Berrigan has been called "the conscience of a generation". Best known as a leader of nonviolent protest against the Vietnam War and nuclear weapons, Berrigan is also a literary lion, with numerous books to his name and an international following that devours his writings. His reflections on the Book of Daniel reveal the spiritual moorings beneath his four decades of activism.
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