Preaching As Subversion

Walter Brueggemann, William Marcellus McPheeters Professor of Old Testament at Columbia Theological Semimnary, has this to say about preaching:

My thesis is that preaching is sub-version. You will recongnize the play that I intend. Preaching is never dominant version, never has been. It is always a sub-version, always a version, a rendering of reality that lives under the dominant version...[It is] a sub-version, because it does indeed intend to sub-vert the dominant version and to empower a community of sub-versives who are determined to practice their lives according to a different way of imagining.

Deep Memory, Exuberant Hope Fortress Press, 2000.