Awake, Not Woke: A Christian Response to the Cult of Progressive Ideology
Ebook
Overview
The long-simmering crisis that grips our culture has exploded in recent years, leaving us divided and intransigent. Discourse seems futile when we are no longer a people with shared principles or even a shared understanding of reality. What seems obvious to one person is patently absurd to the next.
This collapse of meaning is not accidental. It has been plotted and documented for decades, and now presents in its current form as Woke ideology.
Awake, Not Woke unmasks this ideology by examining its history, major players, premises, and tactics, showing us that “Wokeness” at its core is an ideology of rupture. Indeed, it is an ideology with fundamentalist and even cult-like characteristics that is on a collision course with Christianity.
This is a spiritual battle, and it is not accidental. The architects of revolution have long known that the transformation of the West had to come by way of destabilizing the social, familial, and religious pieties of a citizenry.
But there is a road to restoration, and it begins with identifying and understanding the operating principles of the Woke movement. While the revolution is a counterfeit religion resulting in alienation and division, the One True Faith brings restoration. It is this restoration -- of the person, the family, and the Faith -- for which we all hunger and is the most fitting avenue toward a more harmonious and whole society
Top Highlights
“With a semblance of love, truth is soon abandoned altogether. The weakness of most Christians today is not that we are too strident but that we are too cowardly.” (source)
“Removing distinctions between men and women eventually turns them into enemies because their biology demands recognition of those distinctions, distinctions which speak to their treatment of one another in crucial ways. Once biological and sexual realities are rendered meaningless, conduct between men and women breaks down and the burden of that breakdown is born far more by women (and children), who are biologically and psychologically more vulnerable than men. There are duties and reverence owed to women specifically because of such vulnerabilities which make them distinct from men. Once men are absolved of those, the grounding of the mutual respect between the sexes is eliminated. He grows boorish, she grows hardened.” (source)
“The term woke refers to the state of being alert and attuned to the layers of pervasive oppression in society. While it originated specifically with regard to racism, it has since broadened to include all areas of social oppression commonly considered to be along the lines of gender, race, and sexuality. Specific acts of injustice are used to serve the larger goal of furthering the ideology that sees all of human interaction as a power contest.” (source)
“And therein lies the fundamental incoherence of woke Christianity: in seeking to offer the world a veneer of compassion, it robs that world of mercy. We become, as Cardinal George put it, a world that permits everything and forgives nothing—a world that is not only merciless, but Christ-less.” (source)
- Title: Awake, Not Woke: A Christian Response to the Cult of Progressive Ideology
- Author: Noelle Mering
- Publisher: TAN Books
- Print Publication Date: 2021
- Logos Release Date: 2021
- Pages: 256
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781505118445, 9781505118421, 1505118425, 1505118441
- Resource ID: LLS:9781505118445
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2025-04-22T21:16:34Z
Noelle Mering has a background in philosophy and is the co-author of Theology of Home I and II. She is a frequent contributor for National Catholic Register, The American Mind, The Federalist, and Catholic World Report. She is an editor for theologyofhome.com and lives with her husband and six children in Southern California.