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Daniel Joseph Berrigan

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Daniel J. Berrigan

プロフィール

性別
男性
生誕
1921-05-09 (Virginia, Minnesota, US)
死没
2016-04-30 (Bronx, New York City, US (Murray-Weigel Infirmary, Fordham University)) 94歳
国籍
United States
言語
English
宗教
Catholic (Society of Jesus)
居住地歴
Syracuse, New York (moved there in childhood) → Upper West Side, New York City → Hyde Park, New York (seminary)

経歴

職業
Jesuit priest, peace activist, university educator, playwright, poet, author
活動期間
1946年〜2016年
影響を受けた人物
Thomas Merton, Dorothy Day (Catholic Worker movement), French Jesuits critical of Indochina social/political conditions
影響を与えた人物
Anti-war and peace activists (Catonsville Nine, Plowshares movement activists), Philip Berrigan (brother) and contemporaneous religious civil-disobedience activists

学歴

St. Andrew-on-Hudson (Jesuit seminary, Hyde Park)
学位: Bachelor's
期間: 1942–1946
卒業年: 1946
国: United States
Earned a bachelor's degree at a Jesuit seminary
Woodstock College
学位: Master's
期間: 1950–1952
卒業年: 1952
国: United States
Received a master's degree (theology) and was ordained in 1952

受賞歴

Lamont Poetry Selection
1956
対象作品: Time Without Number
主催: James Laughlin Award (related)
結果: 受賞
War Resisters League Peace Award
1974
主催: War Resisters League
結果: 受賞
Gandhi Peace Award
1974
主催: Gandhi Peace Foundation / Gandhi Peace Award committee
結果: 受賞後辞退
Thomas Merton Award
1988
主催: Thomas Merton Center (or awarding body)
結果: 受賞
Pope Paul VI Teacher of Peace Award (Pax Christi USA)
1989
主催: Pax Christi USA
結果: 受賞
Courage of Conscience Award (The Peace Abbey Foundation)
1991
主催: The Peace Abbey Foundation
結果: 受賞
Pacem in Terris Award
1993
主催: Pacem in Terris Award committee
結果: 受賞
Honorary Degree (College of Wooster)
2008
主催: College of Wooster
結果: 授与(名誉学位)

受賞・候補エディション

作品

代表作

Time Without Number

1956年 Poetry

An early collection of poems addressing religious and ethical themes, questioning individual and social responsibility.

faithconsciencesocial justice

The Trial of the Catonsville Nine

1970年 Play / Drama

A play dramatizing the Catonsville Nine action and trial, exploring civil disobedience and religious conscience.

civil disobedienceconscienceanti-war
映像化・舞台化
  • [Film] The Trial of the Catonsville Nine (film) (1972)

Sorrow Built a Bridge: Friendship and AIDS

1989年 Essay / Memoir

Reflections on ministering to AIDS patients, addressing friendship, care, and social ostracism from a pastoral perspective.

AIDS carefriendshipsocial ostracism

全著作

  • Time Without Number
  • The Trial of the Catonsville Nine
  • Sorrow Built a Bridge: Friendship and AIDS
  • The Mission: A Film Journal

翻案

  • Film adaptation of The Trial of the Catonsville Nine (1972)
  • Appearance/consultation on the film The Mission (1986; cameo and consultant)
  • Featured in documentaries such as Investigation of a Flame and An Act of Conscience

作品の翻訳

  • Major works translated into multiple languages (see bibliographies for details)

作風・主題

文体
religious, propheticdidactic yet poeticdirect, morally charged style
頻出モチーフ
consciencenonviolencesorrow and forgivenesssocial justice

評価・遺産

Daniel Berrigan, a Jesuit priest, became an iconic figure in U.S. anti-war and nonviolent movements. His actions with the Catonsville Nine and the Plowshares movement influenced tactics of civil disobedience, and his poetry and plays brought religious and ethical debates into broader culture.

記念館・博物館

  • Daniel Berrigan Center (Benincasa Community) 133 W. 70th Street, New York, NY 10023, USA 2017年開館

関連学会

  • Pax Christi USA (associated)

資料所蔵先

  • Daniel Berrigan Papers (Special Collections and Archives, DePaul University)
  • Daniel and Philip Berrigan Collection (Cornell University Library, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections)

大衆文化への影響

  • Featured on the cover of Time magazine (January 25, 1971)
  • His plays and actions have been the subject of films, documentaries, and songs

引用

  • But how shall we educate men to goodness, to a sense of one another, to a love of the truth? And more urgently, how shall we do this in a bad time?
    出典: Quoted on the cover of Time magazine (January 25, 1971) (1971年)
  • I see an 'interlocking directorate' of death that binds the whole culture. That is, an unspoken agreement that we will solve our problems by killing people in various ways.
    出典: Interview by Lucien Miller, Reflections (Fall 1979) (1979年)

豆知識

  • Participated in the Catonsville Nine action and became a leading figure in civil disobedience
  • Considered the first priest to appear on the FBI 'most wanted' list while evading imprisonment
  • Featured on the cover of Time magazine in 1971
  • His play The Trial of the Catonsville Nine was adapted into a film in 1972