The roots of wokensss in Anglo-American evangelicalism

I’ve been enjoying Andrew Doyle’s “Culture Wars” podcast. In the episode called The New Clerisy, which is very interesting for many reasons, Tom Holland, the author of Dominion: The Making of the Western Mind, pins some of the origins of wokeness on evangelicalism.

He makes an interesting point. The basic argument is that evangelicalism involves a conversion from one frame of mind to another after an infusion of grace, which then justifies a kind of morally superior (awakened) attitude.

What it lacks, of course, is the idea of original sin and the virtue of forgiveness. But it’s still an interesting parallel.

The whole show is worth your time.