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Beginning with the idea of “folly“ in St. Paul (1 Cor. 1, 18-31), Fr. Le Gal explores the theme of “the holy folly of God“ that is nothing other than the revelation of his mad love for man. Examining first of ail the polysemy of the term, his reflection in the first part is on Jesus Christ as “man of derision and God of folly“, examining in passing the parable as the area of “christic irony“. In the second part, it is Paul who reveals, at the same time, the christological, theological, and spiritual content of folly in the tension between the scandai of the cross and the risk for the apostle and the believer not to be accepted. It is there, nevertheless, that the “holy folly“ manifests itself.