POST WOKE (Review)

Post Woke: Asserting a Biblical Vision of Race, Gender, and Sexuality by Neil Shenvi & Pat Sawyer helps give you a handle on what Woke is and even provides a strategy of how to combat it. “This book is our attempt as Evangelical Christians to explain what happened (and is till happening) to our culture and to equip people to push back against it by reasserting a biblical perspective of race, gender, and sexuality. We want to show people not only how wokeness gets these topics wrong, but how the Bible gets them right.” p. 14.

“Wokeness – as it is expressed in our culture today – is rooted in an area of knowledge known as critical theory, which stretches all the way back to the writings of Karl Marx.” p. 60. “Whereas classical Marxists believed that class inequality could be remedied only by reshaping the material structure of society (i.e., by changing who controlled the means of production), critical theorists believe that social inequality can be remedied only by reshaping the ideological structure of society (i.e., by changing the dominant narratives promulgated by the media, education, and the government).” p. 73.

I appreciated that the book distinguishes between the role of the Church and that of Christians in society in their various vocations. There is much debate about Christian Nationalism and Two Kingdom Theology and the likes that seems to end up with one group favouring disengaging itself from society rather than transforming it with the Gospel. Thankfully, this book advocates the latter. “Christians should do good not merely in the cultural sphere, but in the political sphere.” p. 235.