<p>Against the easy assurance of a too-enculturated religion <b>Walter Brueggemann</b> refocuses the preaching task around the decentering destabilizing always risky Word that confronts us in Scripture - if we have the courage to hear. These powerful essayspreviously available only in journals are here combined with anewly composed preface and introduction. Includes a forewordfrom the Reverend William H. Willimon.</p>