Growth, then, may be described as a process of revision by evolution. Each critical event
provides the child with an approximate view of the world. As he works out the possibilities for�…

The development of religious judgment Page 1 Religious judgment is the way in which an
individual reconsttucts his or her experience from the point of view ofa personal relationship�…

In bringing together important features of several developmental models, namely, those of
Piaget, 2 Erikson, 3 Kohlberg, 4 and Selman, 5 Fowler has situated faith development�…

No scientific study of religious and spiritual development is possible without adequate
definition of the phenomenon to be studied. 1 But what should we mean by" adequate�…

Abstract 1 This is a report on work in progress. The author requests that readers treat the
stage‐descriptions as provisional and as subject to revision based on the results of an�…

In recent years, there has been a burgeoning interest among Christian educators
concerning spiritual growth and maturity. This has resulted in research on spiritual maturity�…

A person's understanding of God is frequently underestimated as a rather simple reality.
However, the manner people come to conceptualize God is anything but simple. It is much�…

My doctoral dissertation (Princeton Theological Seminary, 1985), raised four questions
about James Fowler's theory of faith development:(1) Can a model of faith which excises the�…

Spiritual development: An interdisciplinary study. Spiritual development: An interdisciplinary
study. Citation Helminiak, DA (1987). Spiritual development: An interdisciplinary study�…

Faith development theory was pioneered originally in the 1970s (Fowler, 1974) and 1980s
(Fowler, 1981) as a framework for understanding the evolution of how human beings�…