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Entry: Postmodern, Not Hypermodern: Russell Kirk Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/postmodern_not_hypermodern_russell_kirk#14152 Post contents: My understanding is that Kirk believed that he could more effectively defend the doctrines of the Church by being outside the Church. It was a strategic decision and had nothing to do with how true he believed Church doctrines to be. I am fascinated by your question, "Why care about being “effective defending the doctrines of the Church” if those doctrines aren’t true? And if they are true, how can you bear to remain outside it?" That is a very Catholic point and would be foreign to the thinking of a Protestant. Protestants argue that the path to salvation lies through faith and one's personal relationship with Jesus Christ. Catholics, by contrast, stress the importance of good works as the path to salvation. Kirk was not raised in the Catholic Church and therefore was not habituated to certain Catholic ways of thinking. His doctrine of the moral imagination, for example, seems closer to Protestant ways of thinking about ethics and morality than Catholic natural law. Sent at: 2008 07 09