Tag: Middle
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Centrist, Middle, Moderate, or Third Way: Conflated Concerns
Last week I raised objections to “centrist” metaphors on four grounds: It envisions two polar constellations of views anchoring a continuum in which there is a center. Some individual topics may fit this metaphor but as more topics are added, the more meaningless such an analogy becomes. It frequently conjures up images of impotent compromise.…
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Centrist, Middle, Moderate, or Third Way?
What to does it mean to be centrist, middle, moderate, or third-way? Scot McKnight recently did a great series on Adam Hamilton' book Seeing Gray in a World of Black and White: Thoughts on Religion, Morality, and Politics. (I have the book and look forward to reading it.) Scot refers to perspectives like Hamilton's as…