By James Poulos on 11.28.07 @ 9:25PM
Didn't Augustine give Giuliani's answer a long time ago? Except
the part about "a modern context," of course. He should've stopped
before nitpicking about Jonah. Romney's answer avoids such
pitfalls, tripping through the tall daisies of pre-evangelical
Protestantism. Mormonism successfully elided. Huckabee, here, as he
must, excels, confirms that God is by definition not ever
completely comprehensible to Man.
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Protestantism
James Poulos is a doctoral student at Georgetown and the former Political Editor of Culture11. His writing has been published by The American Conservative, The National Interest, The New Atlantis, Partnership for a Secure America, and The Weekly Standard. In addition to AmSpecBlog, he has blogged at The American Scene, Doublethink, and Postmodern Conservative, which he founded. With degrees in political science and law from Duke and USC, he is currently at work on a dissertation about life after Napoleon. In his spare time he anti-blogs at Pish Tosh.