"According to the postmodern view of reality, agency, activity, and influence are characteristics not just of human beings but of all animals, of trees and plants, of oceans and winds, of mountains and of the earth as a whole. These terms fit different entities in different ways. But to understand everything we know as alive, as having relations of interdependence with others, as changing others and being changed by them, is closer to the contemporary understanding of reality than is the subject-object model, which claims that only the human knower is alive, active, and influential while everything else (and often other people, to the extent that they are objectified) is dead, passive, and unchanging. The ecological model of knowing rests on the assumption that the world is composed of living, changing, growing, mutually related, interdependent entities, of which human beings are one. None of these entities is a mere object; all, in different ways, are subjects."

~ Sallie McFague, Super, Natural Christians

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