Session 11 - Woke Culture and the Christian Ethical Tradition

How should Christians evaluate culture’s demands to become “woke”? The past decade has seen a new emphasis in the Progressive tradition, popularly known as the Woke Movement. This movement is comprised of bits and pieces of scavenged parts from other political theories, including obscure academic ones that were once safely contained behind university walls. The theories built into the woke movement include classical liberalism and libertarianism, utilitarianism, postmodernism, post-colonialism, and neo-Marxism. But this movement is framed in decidedly anti-Christian terms. However, Christian ethical thought not only takes social problems seriously but contains the intellectual and moral resources to take it even more seriously and be more effective in addressing problems than the ideological alternatives, including progressivism. In this class, we will consider the woke movement and the proper Christian response so we can better engage our current culture.