The Protestant Kirk
While I agree that Kirk was not so much a Thomist as an Augustinian you will find that the Reformers were also men deeply indebted to Augustine. This does not necessarily mean that Kirk was closer to Protestants for Roman Catholics like Christopher Dawson were also deeply Augustinian (as was Tolkien) and they shared Kirk emphasis on the moral imagination. Of course, some of the Protestant Scholastics, like Peter Martyr Vermigli, Jerome Zanchius, and John Owen were Thomists. All were defenders of natural law as has been recently demonstrated by the Acton Institutes’ Stephen Grabill’s Rediscovering the Natural Law in Reformed Theological Ethics...
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WWRKD? He would vote for Mike Huckabee of course.
As with most elections, I don't think there is one candidate that has it all, according to Kirk's principles. I think Huckabee has things going for him but Kirk would have serious problems with at least H's role of the government, if not other issues.
Perhaps H is closest (which I don't think but cannot right now document why) but I think we should acknowledge each have good things and also each have aspects to them that are or could be problems.
Remember, Kirk was a big supporter of Gov. Engler, the one who tried to scale back government's role, reduce taxes, and rely more on market forces than statist interventions, which is what many of us fear (whether wrongly or rightly) from a Huckabee administration.
And though I know many of the Kirk Center folks are against the war in Iraq, I think Kirk would have problems with Huckabee's solution (at leat with what the public is presented as his position, if it really isn't). More prudence and consideration of effects needs to be dealt with and acknowledged.
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