Search Results: Justice from Star of the Sea Books

New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1971. First edition. Octavo, original pale gray cloth, original dust jacket. Slight bump to one corner. Tape repair to the verso of bottom front panel of bright, unclipped dust jacket. A near-fine copy. "WE NEED A NAME FOR THOSE WHO LOVE THE EARTH ON WHICH EACH CAN MEET THE OTHER" First edition of Ivan Illich's argument for a radical approach to educational and social reform: "the ethos, not just the institutions, of society ought to be 'deschooled.'" After studying in Vienna and Rome, Illich was ordained in 1951. While serving the largely Puerto Rican parishioners at the Church of the Incarnation in New York City's Washington Heights in the 1950's, Father Illich seemed to experience an epiphany about the true nature of inequality in a global age. "Illich's anchoring focus was the person in-community, who inevitably is absorbed by the megagroups and metaphysics of modernity" and a corresponding distrust of experts: "The institutionalization of some virtuous intent… Read More

Wilmington: Michael Glazier, 1985. First edition. Octavo, original blue cloth, original dust jacket. Fine. "A PILGRIMAGE OF CONSCIENCE" First edition of Drinan's collected "Writings and Addresses on Peace and Justice" with a Preface by President Jimmy Carter. Father Robert Drinan, S. J. was elected to the House of Representatives in 1970 on an anti-war platform. Drinan served on the House Judiciary Committee during the Nixon Impeachment hearings and left Congress in 1980 when he resigned under pressure from his Jesuit superiors and the Vatican. Consists of Part I: International Human Rights, II: World Hunger, III: Arms Control, IV: Civil Rights, V: The Equal Rights Amendment. VI: The Death Penalty, VII: The Poor, VIII: Soviet Jews/Israel. Closes with a series of four Appendices on Watergate and the Nixon Administration.

Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing, 1984. First edition. Octavo, original black paper boards, original dust jacket. Year of publication in ink at base of title page, slight toning to spine and creasing to inner flap rear panel of dust jacket. A near-fine book in a very good dust jacket. "THIS IS A BOOK ABOUT RELIGIOUS POLITICS AND POLITICAL RELIGION" Second printing of Neuhaus's most notable book, printed in the same year as the first, an enduring study of Church-State relations in America. The Naked Public Square was a milestone in Neuhaus's long journey from liberal Lutheran to conservative Catholic. He went on to found First Things magazine, convert to Catholicism, and to become ordained a priest. "Neuhaus, who had one been the most catholic of Lutherans, now became the most ecumenical of Catholics, for reasons perhaps more political than theological. Through First Things and coalitions such as Evangelicals and Catholics Together, Neuhaus advanced an ideology that combined opposition to… Read More

London: Allen and Unwin, 1964. First edition. Octavo, original orange cloth, spine lettered in silver, yellow top edge, original dust jacket. Book about-fine, small chip, slight toning to spine of price-clipped bright dust jacket. Very good indeed. "NONVIOLENCE HAS DEEP HISTORICAL ROOTS IN THE CHRISTIAN FAITH AND IN THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST, EXEMPLIFIED IN ITS LORD, WHOM GANDHI ONCE CALLED 'THE PRINCE OF SATYAGRAHIS'"First edition of Miller's study of the principles of Nonviolent resistance, in both theory and practice. The book is divided into three sections: The Dimensions and Scope of Nonviolence, The Dynamics of Nonviolence, A Casebook of Nonviolence. The final casebook section focuses on nonviolence in action and concludes with Episodes of Spontaneous Nonviolence, in Russia (1917), Hungary (1849), France (1871), East Germany (1953), Hungary (1956), and Algeria (1962). Includes a Glossary and a Bibliography.

Kansas City: Andrews and McMeel, Inc., 1983. Second printing. Octavo, original brown cloth, original dust jacket. Mild bump to top corner, pale stain to top fore-edge of near-fine book, very good dust jacket with moderate edge-wear. Rare. "A VOICE WAS HEARD IN RAMAH, SOBBING AND LOUDLY LAMENTING: IT WAS RACHEL WEEPING FOR HER CHILDREN, REFUSING TO BE COMFORTED BECAUSE THEY WERE NO MORE"Second printing, one year after the first, of Father Burtchaell's collection of essays on abortion. Burtchaell was a theologian and provost at Notre Dame University and had originally wanted "nothing to do with the abortion quarrel." Burtchaell was spurred into action by a series of events, including a 1976 op-ed in Newsweek by John D. Rockefeller III attacking the Catholic Church for its opposition to abortion. Stung by Rockefeller's criticisms, Burtchaell began writing on the Church's teachings on life, culminating with these five essays: Essay I. Rachel Weeping: The Veterans of Abortion, Essay II. Very Small Fry:… Read More

New York: Harper and Row, 1971. Early American edition. Octavo, original red paper boards over black cloth, original dust jacket. Book fine, price-clipped dust jacket nearly-so. "TO ME, MOTHER TERESA REPRESENTS, ESSENTIALLY, LOVE IN ACTION, WHICH IS SURELY WHAT CHRISTIANITY IS ALL ABOUT"Early American edition of Malcolm Muggeridge's lovely tribute to Mother Teresa. Based on the BBC documentary on her life and work, this project proved to be pivotal in Muggeridge's own personal journey from atheistic communism to Catholicism and the impetus for his eventual conversion. Muggeridge's account generated controversy over his assertion of the miracle of the "Divine Light" in the House of the Dying but "the portrait of a believing woman by a nonbeliever brought Mother Teresa international acclaim and attention." (James Martin, My Life with the Saints). Beautifully illustrated with 24 lovely black-and-white photographs (many double-page), by S. K. Dutt of Camera Press London. Consists of several sections:… Read More