Third Wayism

Chase Davis, pastor of The Well in Boulder CO, works out to Ars Politica, drives a Taco.

Definitions

“Radical centrism” 

“Progressive center-left” (Russell Moore, Tim Keller, David French, etc)

Wolfe on twitter:

Left/Right Moral Equivalence –> Third-Wayism

Andrew Walker on twitter:

Third-wayism in politics is a form of political Gnosticism as it assumes that there is a platonic ideal to politics that does not require engaging the kingdoms of the world as what they fundamentally are: worldly, temporal, & creational ordinances designed for proximate justice.

BBC Article:

“[S]omething different and distinct from liberal capitalism with its unswerving belief in the merits of the free market and democratic socialism with its demand management and obsession with the state. The Third Way is in favour of growth, entrepreneurship, enterprise and wealth creation but it is also in favour of greater social justice and it sees the state playing a major role in bringing this about.”

Origins/Causes

Third-Wayism as a neo-liberal reaction to the breakdown of 20th c. Left/Right politics. Neo-libs wanted a “new kind of socialism”. Instead of hard state economic socialism that wants to eradicate capitalism and institute hard equality, they preach social justice, individual worth, and accept some capitalist features. Basically, use other means to achieve the old ends. Promote egalitarianism to distribute goods indirectly as people rise in employment, instead of hard wealth distribution. 

Anthony Giddens' works such as Consequences of Modernity (1990), Modernity and Self-Identity (1991), The Transformation of Intimacy (1992), Beyond Left and Right (1994) and The Third Way: The Renewal of Social Democracy (1998)

• Repair damaged solidarities.
• Recognise the centrality of life politics.
• Accept that active trust implies generative politics.
• Embrace dialogic democracy.
• Rethink the welfare state.
• Confront violence.

It advocates ethical socialism, reformism and gradualism that includes advocating the humanisation of capitalism, a mixed economy, political pluralism and liberal democracy.

Alan Carlson's Third Ways

Evangelical Examples

Tim Keller

https://twitter.com/timkellernyc/status/1385951866660474886 

https://twitter.com/timkellernyc/status/1317646996342177793?s=20 

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/29/opinion/sunday/christians-politics-belief.html

Political Media Bias Graph

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