Preaching fools is both unsettling and encouraging compelling and liberating a marvelous tool for preachers willing to risk the rhetoric of folly to speak truth allan boesak theologian in residence the international institute for the study of race reconciliation and social justice free state university south africa. As charles campbell and johan cilliers remind us the christian preacher tasked with delivering a paradoxical gospel is also a fool in a delicate exploration with enlightening results preaching fools uses a diverse representation of fools and foolish actions to show how modern preaching is inseparable from the folly of the cross campbell and cilliers walk the fine line between the ugliness and beauty of the gospel and challenge readers toward a deeper engagement with its unsettling message. Preaching fools the gospel as a rhetoric of folly charles l campbell johan h cilliers amazoncomau books. Download citation preaching fools the gospel as a rhetoric of folly the court jesters clowns foolish ones all images of the comic sometimes tragic fool across national and cultural