Jeremiah: The World and the Wound of God
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
Perhaps no Hebrew prophet speaks so directly to our time as Jeremiah. Perhaps no one can unveil his message and warning as can Daniel Berrigan, whose eloquence and courage, like Jeremiah’s, expose the corruption of religious commitments, address national trauma and uncertainty, and proclaim the requirements of true lament and resolve. Daniel Berrigan’s fiery, spiritual reading of the prophet Jeremiah evokes social action, religious courage, and personal witness.
- Presents a commentary with both scholarship and poetic pastoral reflection
- Summons readers to face the reality of the world, take hope, and join with Jeremiah
- Urges readers to repent of the mortal sins of war, injustice, fascism, nuclear weapons, and environmental destruction, and to turn back to the God of peace
- The Burden of Awful Events (1:1–19)
- Idolatry Omnipresent, Yahweh Contemned (2:1–4:31)
- The People Dwell in Moral Darkness (5:1–31)
- Ruin, Hope (6:1–30)
- The Temple, an Idol? Yes! (7:1–8:22)
- Your Deeds Stink of Wormwood (9:1–10:25)
- The God of No Answer (11:1–14:22)
- I, Jeremiah, Child of Contention and Strife (15:1–20:18)
- Kings and Prophets: One Morality for All (21:1–24:10)
- Baruch, Faithful and Skilled, Keeps True Record (25:1–29:32)
- Against Odds, Yahweh’s Love Prevails (30:1–32:15)
- And the Last Shall Be Remembered (32:16–36:32)
- A Life of Fidelity: Scorned and Rewarded (37:1–39:18)
- All That Fall (40:1–45:5)
- Oracles against the Nations (46:1–51:64)
- The King’s Fate—and Jeremiah’s (52:1–34)
Jeremiah is a wonderful commentary with both scholarship and poetic pastoral reflection. Daniel Berrigan’s words continue to inspire—this book is a must-read for all who care about social justice, activism, and peacemaking!
—Sr. Helen Prejean, CSJ, activist and author of Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States
It takes a great prophet like Daniel Berrigan to break open the fiery message of the great prophet Jeremiah. Here we see the prophetic word of God in all its urgency, translated with poetic zest for our own turbulent time—a word of warning that we ignore at our own risk. Like Jeremiah, Berrigan tries to awaken us to the Doomsday Clock that keeps ticking and urges us to repent of the mortal sins of war, injustice, fascism, nuclear weapons, and environmental destruction, to turn back to the God of peace. “History belongs to the Jeremiahs,” he concludes. “Hope beats on.” This prophetic book gets timelier by the minute. Berrigan summons us to face the reality of the world, take hope in the word, and join with Jeremiah to carry on God’s prophetic work for justice, disarmament, and peace. May we heed the message and side with Jeremiah and Berrigan before it’s too late.
—Rev. John Dear, editor of Daniel Berrigan: Essential Writings and And the Risen Bread: Selected and New Poems, 1957–1997, and author of The Gospel of Peace: A Commentary on Matthew, Mark, and Luke from the Perspective of Nonviolence
Jeremiah, like Daniel Berrigan himself, is a word-poet of empire and exile who refuses military solutions, but also an action-prophet bearing a yoke or crashing pots to earth, and thereby enduring official wrath and imprisonment. Little wonder, among all the biblical prophets on whom Dan has written commentary, that he should find in Jeremiah a beloved kinsman in moral utterance. Berrigan reads his present wartime moment through the lens of Jeremiah’s. With this new edition, we are invited to read the rubble of this, our own blood-soaked landscape through each of theirs. Here begins hope, in the word.
—Bill Wylie-Kellermann, author of Celebrant’s Flame: Daniel Berrigan in Memory and Reflection
- Title: Jeremiah: The World and the Wound of God
- Author: Daniel Berrigan
- Publisher: Fortress Press
- Print Publication Date: 2024
- Pages: 210
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- ISBNs: 9781506499420, 1506499422
- Resource ID: LLS:JRMHWRLDWNDGD
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-09-19T21:06:59Z
Daniel Berrigan was a Jesuit priest, poet, and peacemaker, whose words and actions over the past 50 years offered a powerful witness to the God of Life. Fr. Berrigan, along with his brother Philip, was one of the Catonsville 9, arrested and imprisoned in 1968 for destroying draft files in a protest against the Vietnam War. Among his publications are The Bride: Images of the Church and Uncommon Prayer: A Book of Psalms.