Woke’s Postmillennial Protestant Roots

Brandon Van Dyck traces a line from postmillennialist Calvinism—demanding worldly perfection before Christ’s return—through the Social Gospel to today’s secularized drive to eradicate 'social evil.' He contrasts this with traditional Christianity’s emphasis on fallen nature and soul-purification, noting how certainty about utopia breeds moralized politics. He also references where George Floyd–era protests concentrated to ground the thesis empirically. — If modern progressivism inherits a perfectionist religious logic, debates over policy and dissent become arguments over heresy, shifting strategy for persuasion, coalition‑building, and institutional design.