The Word Militant: Preaching a Decentring Word

Against the easy assurance of a too-enculturated religion, Walter Brueggemann refocuses the preaching task around the decentring, destabilizing, always risky Word that confronts us in Scripture - if we have the courage to hear. These powerful essays, previously available only in journals, are here combined with a newly composed preface and introduction.

Contents:

• Preaching as Reimagination
• The Preacher, the Text, and the People
• Ancient Utterance and Contemporary Hearing
• An Imaginative 'Or'
• That the World May Be Redescribed
• The Social Nature of the Biblical Text for Preaching
• The Shrill Voice of the Wounded Party
• Life or Death: De-privileged Communication
• Preaching to Exiles
• Preaching a Sub-version
• Truth-telling as Subversive Obedience