They Call Us Dead Men: Reflections on Life and Conscience (Daniel Berrigan Reprint)

To become and be a mature human being to be alive in the midst of such a drama in which all people do in truth live describes a radical participation. To be alive means as Father Berrigan puts it enduring the crisis of grace. The fruit of the gift of Christ to this world is an unequivocal and utterly vulnerable immersion in the world as it is. . . . It means living in such a way that life is welcomed as the extraordinary gift which life is and then honoring that gift by extravagance: by giving ones own life away. They call us dead men and we live wrote St. Paul. Berrigans immersion into Pauline theology has allowed him to present his deepest concerns for the Churchs role in the world. Knowing that the Church can not live in retreat from life he illuminates the implications of the Triple Revolution-race peace and technology- for committed Christians who wish to see true renewal within ecclesial life. --From the Introduction by William Stringfellow