Others bristle at the wokeness of its agenda, seeing a further erosion of Christian values in society. Some see in the WEF the spectre of world government and the New World Order, identifying it with the Antichrist. Most Christians who have voiced an opinion seem negatively disposed towards the Great Reset, particularly in the USA with its strong cultural value of independence and suspicion of centralised authority.
Whatever we make of theories like this, they eloquently testify to society’s deep lack of trust in authorities and elites today, a lack of trust from which churches also suffer. The main criticism is that it represents a socialist, globalist conspiracy in which a small transnational, unelected elite are cooking up a self-serving agenda for global control and dominance at the expense of the rest of us. “Great Reset” regularly trended on Twitter in the second half of 2020, and not in an affirming way. Perhaps predictably, social media has fomented a frenzy of negativity around the WEF. UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson boycotted Davos in 2020 because “Our focus is on delivering for the people, not champagne with billionaires,” and Finance Minister Mathias Cormann was the only Australian senior minister to attend this year. To put it mildly, the Great Reset and its parent body the World Economic Forum have caused mixed reactions. The main criticism is that it represents a socialist, globalist conspiracy for global control and dominance. The WEF calls for nothing less than “a new social contract centred on human dignity social justice”. In short, we need a “Great Reset” of capitalism. Every country, from the United States to China, must participate, and every industry, from oil and gas to tech, must be transformed. … the world must act jointly and swiftly to revamp all aspects of our societies and economies, from education to social contracts and working conditions. Alongside co-author Thierry Malleret, Schwab argues in his recently published book COVID-19: The Great Reset for “stakeholder capitalism”, the idea that capitalism should not just benefit shareholders but also employees, consumers, communities and the environment. The gathering typically attracts corporate luminaries such as Bill Gates and the heads of Coca-Cola, Goldman Sachs and IBM, who can be seen rubbing shoulders with Presidents and Prime Ministers, and celebrities such as Bono and the Prince of Wales.īehind the glitz, the WEF has a clear agenda for social change. The Great Reset is the brainchild of Professor Klaus Schwab, founder of the World Economic Forum (WEF) that gathers many of the world’s political and corporate leaders for a summit each January in the Swiss ski resort of Davos. It is driven by a feeling that the financial crisis of the late 2000s was a missed opportunity: trillions of dollars were handed out in stimulus packages but nothing really changed, and no measures were taken to stop it all happening again. The Great Reset is an attempt to seize the moment of the COVID-19 crisis to build a better society, where “better” means three things: greener, more digital, and fairer. The Great Reset is an attempt to seize the moment of the COVID-19 crisis to build a better society So let’s first sketch the what, before we turn to the who. This risks descending into an ad hominem argument (dismissing an idea because of who is saying it, and ignoring what they are saying). Much of the hostile reaction to the Great Reset has focused almost exclusively on who is pushing the agenda and one or two choice quotations, rather than what they are saying in its detail. This first question might seem obvious, but there’s a significance in beginning with the question “what?”, rather than “who?”. Here are five key questions for thinking Christians who want to engage with the Great Reset from a biblical perspective. It is filling the column inches of the world’s major newspapers and it has unleashed quite a storm on social media. If you haven’t heard of the ‘Great Reset’ yet, you probably will soon.
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