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ISAIAH (Commentary by Daniel Berrigan)($20)

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With prophetic power and conviction, Daniel Berrigan shows how the message of the prophet Isaiah can speak directly to us who live at the end of a turbulent period of human history. His book is an exercise in pastoral prophecy for all who seek to apply biblical teachings to contemporary life.

About the Author: Daniel Berrigan is a Jesuit priest who has been deeply involved, both nationally and internationally, in the peace movement. His antiwar activism beginning with protests against the Vietnam War has resulted in numerous imprisonments, most recently in 1995. He is the author of many books; among his latest is Isaiah: Spirit of Courage, Gift of Tears (Fortress Press).

"Isaiah lived in a time astonishingly like ours--with war and rumors of war. In the great prophetic tradition, he intervened directly in political, military, and diplomatic events. He predicted the invasion of his country; it happened twice. He lived to see his beloved Jerusalem besieged. It was a time like ours, a time of whetted swords and rusted plowshares, of immense violence and social conflict and neglect of the poor. Then this oracle came to him: Swords into plowshares! What does Isaiah have to say to us?" --from the Introduction

"Biblical scholars muse on Second Isaiah and Third Isaiah. Now is the time to learn about a Fourth Isaiah and an existing community in a time of whetted swords and rusted plowshares. Berrigan's book, written in a splendid immediacy of style and spirit, bridges the gap between the then and the now." — Dorothee Soelle, author of Theology for Skeptics

"Isaiah is a gifted poet's compelling invitation to rethink the nature of prophetic witness, then and now." — Richard John Neuhaus, Editor in Chief, First Things

Table of Contents
    Introduction

  1. The Winnowing Time—The Nation under Judgment
    This People, Rebellious from Brith (1:1-9)
    True Worship? Seek Justice! (1:10-20)
    My Day Will Dawn: Swords into Plowshares (2:1-5)
    Whose Brows Are Darkness, Who Claim the Light (5:8-24, 26-30)


  2. The Vision, The Consequences
    Lips Touched with Fire (6:1-13)
    Emmanuel: To Chose and Be Chosen (7:13-17)
    The Tender Stream and the Turbulent Hearts (8:6-8, 11-18)
    The Child Named Hope (9:1, 2-7, 11:1-9)


  3. The Tyrant's Motto: "Seize the Day; It is Worth Two Tomorrow's"
    The Kings in Hell (14:4-21)
    The Counselors Confounded (19:1-15)
    No Savior but Yahweh (21:1-10)
    Land of No Vision (22:1-8)
    Balm in Gilead, Death No More! (25:1-5, 6-8)
    Who Credits the Promises (29:1-12, 13-14, 15-24)
    Alas for You: Haste, Waste, Misapprehension (30:1-18, 19-26)
    Sword of the Spirit (31:1-9)

  4. War: Hearts and Minds Deranged
    Yahweh: Our Hope Is in You (33:1-6, 7-16)
    Swords, Your Might and Vaunt (34:1-17)
    Turn, Turn About: To Homeland, to Self, to Sanity (35:1-10)
    You Great Ones: Dust in God's Hand (37:22-29; 38:10-20)

  5. Starting Over: The Book of Consolation
    (40:1-8, 9-11, 10-18, 21-26, 27-31)

  6. Servanthood and Betrayal: The Human Spectrum
     Comes Now My Servant, Gentle and Faithful (42:1-4,5-8)
    Yahweh, Must I Expend All for Small Return or None? (49:1-6)
    Yahweh, Hasten to My Side! (50:4-9)
    My Just One: Seized, Convicted, Punished (52:13-15; 53:1-12)

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