Daniel Berrigan's powerful, poetic commentary on the biblical book of Daniel brings to life a prophet who has as much to say to our hedonistic, warring world as he did to the people of Old Testament times. Continuing the series he began with Isaiah and Ezekiel, Berrigan fuses social critique, Jewish Midrash, and political commentary to bring us a book of stylistic distinction and spiritual depth. A bold and unorthodox application of the Old Testament to current political and social discourse, Daniel is not simply a book about a bygone prophet, but a powerful charge to all people of conscience. As Berrigan writes, "There are principalities of today to be confronted, their idols and thrice-stoked furnaces and caves of lions, their absurd self-serving images and rhetoric. Someone must pink their pride, decode the handwriting on the wall. Who is to stand up, to withstand?"
"Daniel reveals Berrigan as a priest who has been on the front lines as both an antiwar dissenter and writer for so long that he has become the line. He stands tall but alone among contemporary writers trying to make connections between the demands of practicing biblical faith and crafting powerful literature."
Colman McCarthy, The Washington Post
"Berrigan brings alive the biblical Book of Daniel in an astonishing way. We learn of the power of faith when joined to the courage of disobedience. The line between prose and poetry is erased as is the line between the past and the present."
Howard Zinn, author
"To read this book is to risk every comfortable excuse one has to postpone resistance and reform."
John Francis Kavanaugh, author, Following Christ in a Consumer Society
