The Sleeper Awakes: Gnosis and Authenticity in The Matrix

In Faith, Film, and Philosophy: Big Ideas on the Big Screen. Downers Grove, IL, USA: InterVarsity Press. pp. 89-105 (2007)
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Abstract

I first argue that the Matrix trilogy is a Gnostic cyber-epic; I then use this interpretive lens to review the films' treatment of fundamental questions in epistemology, metaphysics, and value theory.

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David P. Hunt
Whittier College

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