Using the witness from a selection of narratives in the Elijah/Elisha cycle, Brueggemann writes about the power of testimony. In other words, "where there is not speaking and hearing of an alternative world, there is no faith, no courage, no freedom to choose differently." It is this alternative world, the "imaginative or" that consistently postures the prophet over and against the royal "either." In each case example, Brueggemann makes hints at bridging the horizons and states at the outset in his introduction that "the urgency of preaching and all the utterance of the church and synagogue, I suggest, is that we know intuitively that where there is not face-to-face truth-telling, we are by that much diminished in the human experience." The way in which Brueggemann brings holistic biblical theology to bear upon excellent exegetical analysis provides for remarkable evidence to support his thesis and ultimately quite a surprise in the concluding chapters. ( )