The "Third Way" Doesn't Need a Funeral, It Needs Judgment!

JD Greear’s resident mediator between Critical Race Theory and a biblical worldview, Neil Shenvi, just published a piece in The Gospel Coalition titled Should We Hold a Funeral for the Third Way?—and predictably, his answer is no. Not really.

Like every other “nuanced” thinker who has spent years defending Keller’s diplomatic approach to cultural engagement, Shenvi still can’t bring himself to bury the corpse. Instead, he props it up, perfumes it with pious language, and tells us it’s just sleeping.

His essay essentially attempts to distance himself from the failures of “third-wayism” by diagnosing its weaknesses—its moral flattening, its obsession with balance, its fear of clarity. Yet in the end, he resurrects the very disease he claims to critique.

The giveaway comes in his much-celebrated line, the one he shared on X: