Subject and object

In reaction to modern or postmodern subjectivism, Christians often pound on “objectivity.”

This is often no solution, but only a shift from one pole to another within the same paradigm. In fact, subject and object are not neatly separated from one another. Subjects are objects in the world; many objects have subjectivity. The relation is more perichoretic than antithetical.

Too, “objectivists” often display an ironic distrust of objects. One would think that objectivists would think that objects have power to impress themselves on subjects, and thus to curb the excesses of subjectivism, but that often doesn’t seem to be the case.