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    "Deer ie bave meaning or purpore?™ “When yore mot dixouraged, what gets you up inthe morning to return tothe rragge? “When and where da you experince wonder, ase, or etary?” De James Fowler as asked there questions and others ike them, of neal six hunded people He asked with me, women, nd children of ll age, fom for to eighsy-ight, inching Jews, Catholics, Potsans, agnostics, and ‘thc, In many cates, the interview became in-depth converts that po ‘ded ee, nti giptes nt the varios ways ur Hives ave meaning and spore, windows int what thir ook al fit Faith as approached hee is aot neces eligous, nor eit to be equated with bliet Rater, it sapere way of leaning nto and making sense of “le More verb than noua, fth isthe dynamic se of mage vales, and commitments that guides one's fe. Ie is thus univer everyone who chooses to go on ving opeites by vome basic faith Building on the contbuions of such hey thinker as Piaget, Evison, and Kohlberg, Fowles draws ona wide ange of cholarsip iterate, ad isthand research fo present expertly and engagingly the sages that emerge in working ‘out the meaning of oo iver—fom the inte, instasefth of childhood through conventional and then more independent fh othe wiserairing f= transcending th of fll mani. Stages of ihe ws to understand out cow pilgrimage of ith, the pastage of our own ques for meaning and va, JAMES W. FOWLER ie widely eg along with hie assodate Eawrence— ~ Kohlberg and his contemporaries Carol Gilgan snd Daniel J Levinson, a+ seminal Figue in the field of developmental phology. He has Faught at Harvard University and Boston Calle and scent the hea ofthe Center for Ethie in Public Policy and the Profeione at Emoey Univesity. iin; HlaperSanPranciaco HLIVdA dO SADVLS * WATMOA THE PSYCHOLOGY OF HUMAN DEVELOPMENT AND THE QUEST FOR MEANING Stages of Faith The Psychology of Human Development and the Quest for Meaning JAMES W. FOWLER UaRARY OF PRINCETON SEP 25 207 THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY a = HarperSanFrancisco A Dison of HapeCalinsPablbers ac soonetet ete i ‘trp epi wrens te a ‘Mv eli Sam's More p 3 Copii S91 Ba ott ra: The Pag Hans Delp adh Qt fr Meine Shay ee ee Sa ‘ees tn prin ne dasa ea asa bf Mesh ice ISBNIe-ie-) sti Desir Pkg. Meg ) Le For Lutline, Covenant Partner Contents Acknowledgments Inteduction Part | Homan Faith Hianan Faith Feith, Religion and Beli Frith and Relationship Faith 5 Imagination . (On Seeing Fath Whole Notes Windows on Homan Development: A Fiction Convention ‘The Fictional Conversion Infancy Early Childhood Chlbood Aésescence ‘Aduthoed Note ' ‘Dynamic of Faith and Haman Developmeat ‘The Dynamic Trisd of Faith StuctralDevelopmental Thesis and Faith Paychotoil Development and Faith Notes Stages of Faith Infaney and Undilferentited Fath Stage 1. InitvePeective Faith 6 2 ou ° 3 6 & % % 16 45 19 Stage + Mythic Lite Faith ns Stage 5. SmtheticConentonl Pith 51 4 Inddate Rfetie Faith om Sou: $ Conjouin Fat 8 Acknowledgments Sige & UneraingFath » Faith as "ake grat plea in expresinggratitdeto the many perons whose 22 Mary's Pigimage: The Theory at Work a7 ‘ontrbations add tothe icines of hit bok and whose wor inspite, 23 Form and Content cexgouraged and comected meat enspy points. | especialy want to hank Stages of Faith snd Converson xo {he men and women-—former and present gadute stents and others 14 Fathon Bath ho ereon my research sts at Hayat Divinity Schr, Boon Note, 2 College and Enory Univesity fom 1973 to the present These inc ‘ 4% De-Rorey M. Moule, Dr. Ronald Matin, Dr. Robert C. Kesan, Appendix Ai The Reseach Intriew sr Dr. Clark Power, Mrs. Vasil elley, De Jb Ghiran, Ms: Noreae ‘Append B Ioteiew Anal and the Characters of Our Casts, Ms, Lisa Crs, Mr Lawrence Cunningham, Dr. Hank Gree Sample with C. Melon Mobley, PhD. span, Dr. Michael Buseches, Ms. Glenna Mingedort, Mr. Melvin Kavakami Dr. Sharon Parks Mr Roger Azd, Mr: David Galloway, Me. : Richard Osmer, Me Jae Kina, and Mo Jeftey Puc Str Anne ‘Lone, though never on the pyel, made extatdinary contrib tos to interviewing 2nd eating ring her yea in Canbrdge, CCalleagues who have encouraged or elaborated with me in pact of this work dane my warm gratitude, These ince Profesor Cary Chamberlin, Profesor Leroy Howe, Dr. Richard Slik, Profesor (Ghares Getkin, Profesor Eémond Saliva, Profesor Margaret Gor san, RSCy. Dt Lye Linder and Dr. Bugene Mixey To my fend Lawrence Kailterg Iam especialy indebted fr spar and for ‘oeptonal encouragement 2 many cuclpints ‘A gant to the Rewarch Project on Mor and Fath Development from the Jose P. Kennedy J, Foundation (1973-1979) provided funding for research asistants and fr transition of interviews. The

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