Walter Brueggemann, Truth Speaks to Power

"[T]he biblical narrative, in a variety of ways, gives dramatic form to the elusive power of God. That sustained attestation concerning the resolve of YHWH never yields in its conviction that power is put on notice by such truthfulness. That truth is not a cognitive package; it is a deep practical awareness that the force of emancipation will not be resisted (Moses); the hunger of many vulnerable folk will be heard and honored, the royal famine notwithstanding (Elisha); the bureaucratic power of visible authority cannot be maintained in the face of agitation from below (Solomon); and the dread sanctions of Torah cannot be eluded or outflanked (Josiah). ... [T]he narrative never explains. Because explanations belong to the domain of imperial power with its regimented, administered, controlled categories of knowledge. Clearly the truth [of them] is beyond such explanatory regimentation. ... [T]here is no Final Solution, just as there is no Final Reading of the old tradition. ... [A]lways to subert what is failing, always to watch for new possibility that is deeply given by the holiness of God."

 

(Walter Brueggemann, Truth Speaks to Power, 152, 156, 162.)