Much ecotheology, process theology and creation spirituality go even further by arguing against the traditional split between inert, value - free nature and a transcendent God, and by arguing that God
acts in and
through the processes of nature, which are reconceived as
sacred or spiritual.
Everywhere they will be a little flock, because mankind grows quicker than Christendom and because men will not be Christians by custom and tradition,
through institutions and history, or because of the homogeneity of a social milieu and public opinion, but — leaving out of account the
sacred flame of parental example and the intimate sphere of home, family and small groups — they will be Christians only because of their own
act of faith attained in a difficult struggle and perpetually achieved anew.