Western ways of thinking about our ecological context have too often failed to nurture meaningful relationship with it. This failure is rooted in our assumptions about what it means to know. Approaches to environmental education (including environmental education in religious communities and beyond) that rely on rationalist and objectivist epistemologies fail to adequately address the emotional and relational aspects of forming ecological character and identity. Ecological encounter, as spiritual and pedagogical practice, grounds an integrated and comprehensive way of knowing, loving, and caring for a dynamic and mysterious world, and the place of human life within it.

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恢复奥秘：生态遭遇和认识的实用神学方法

西方对我们生态环境的思考方式往往未能与之建立有意义的关系。这种失败源于我们对知道意味着什么的假设。依赖理性主义和客观主义认识论的环境教育方法（包括宗教社区及其他地区的环境教育）未能充分解决形成生态特征和身份的情感和关系方面。生态相遇，作为精神和教学实践，奠定了了解、热爱和关心动态和神秘世界以及人类生活在其中的位置的综合而全面的方式。