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# wokeness and gnosticism - Doctors Without Boredom
- URL: https://mereorthodoxy.com/matthewloftus-2018-11-20-wokeness-and-gnosticisim/
- Published: 2018-11-20T08:26:27.000Z
- Updated: 2026-04-22T16:42:20.000Z
- Description: I enjoyed this essay from Anthony Barr on the question of “wokeness” and gnosticism: I want to suggest that “woke” is a redeemable term. If we think of wokeness as loving attentiveness to reality, a commitment to seeing the world […]
- Author: Mere Orthodoxy
- Tags: Matthew Loftus, Culture, History

I enjoyed [this essay from Anthony Barr](https://ethikapolitika.org/2018/01/09/in-defense-of-being-woke/?ref=mereorthodoxy.com) on the question of “wokeness” and gnosticism:

> I want to suggest that “woke” is a redeemable term. If we think of wokeness as loving attentiveness to reality, a commitment to seeing the world as it truly is, then we can see it as an antidote to gnosticism and, consequently, a vaccine against a whole assortment of ideology.