“For example, they want to write off all social conservatives as throwback Puritans, with crabbed, pinched faces, worrying desperately that somewhere, somebody called that number on the bathroom wall, and is having a good time. The answer is to cultivate a sunny Calvinism, a Chestertonian Calvinism. Chesterton himself would of course be annoyed at my appropriation of his great name to serve as an adjective to my soteriology, but we all have our crosses to bear” (Rules, p. 53).
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Of course, he might just love the paradox.
As GKC does a 78 RPM grave-spin…
Or a legalistic Lutheranism…?
Of course, one could also apply the full-strength cure and cultivate a Chestertonian Catholicism.