God’s folly
Prof. Cammenga expounds on 1 Corinthians 1:18-21 to show how God's "folly" of preaching the gospel is actually divine wisdom and power unto salvation. He traces the Reformation's great achievement in recovering faithful gospel preaching to the church after centuries of neglect, drawing a parallel to how Seward's Folly proved to be a wise investment. This article affirms the centrality of expository preaching in Reformed ecclesiology and theology.
Most junior high students know what "Seward's Folly" was. Appointed Secretary of State by Abraham Lincoln, Seward negotiated the purchase of Alaska from Russia during the presidency of Andrew Johnson. Most citizens thought that the purchase price of 7.2 million dollars was a waste of taxpayers' money and dubbed the deal "Seward's Folly." That "folly" proved itself over time to be a very wise investment, full of bounty, from oil to animal skins and from fish to forestry. It also proved to be...
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