Suspect Tenderness: The Ethics of the Berrigan WitnessSuspect Tenderness opens with a narrative concerning the capture of Daniel Berrigan, related in his continuing friendship and pastoral relationship with Stringfellow and co-author Anthony Towne. It continues with an examination of the ethical and theological implications of the Berrigan witness, in which middle-class American piety is asked to face the fact that Jesus was a criminal. Stringfellow insists that every state feels threatened by Christ's claim to a moral authority over death, and sees the "community of resistance" as a community of resurrection. |
Contents
Preface A Homily by a Fugitive Priest | 3 |
ON SHELTERING CRIMINAL PRIESTS | 11 |
II | 47 |
Jesus as a Criminal | 59 |
An Authority over Death | 69 |
Who Are the Prisoners? | 77 |
The State the Church and the Reality of Conscience | 85 |
Indictment No 7709 | 117 |
A Statement by the Committee for the Defense | 123 |
Defendants Motion to Dismiss Count II | 140 |
Governments Reply Memorandum | 156 |
Epilogue A letter to Daniel and Philip Berrigan | 171 |
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