Fowler Spiritual Development Flashcards
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Human attempt to make sense of the self in connection to and with the external world
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Spirituality
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Conscious intellectual agreement with particular doctrines or ideologies
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Belief
3
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Many beliefs and practices of a collective group of people over a period of time
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Religion
4
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Underlies both belief and religion but is also inclusive of secular worldviews; “our way of finding coherence in and giving meaning to the multiple forces and relations that make up our lives”
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Faith
5
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- Based on the relationship between infants and parents (similar to trust vs. mistrust)
- View of God comes from view of parents: do they have a good or bad relationship with parents? This affects the view of God
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Pre-Stage – Primal Faith
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- Comes when language does (around 2 yo)
- Child constructs images of God through pictures and stories
- Characterized by imagination
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Stage 1 – Intuitive-Projective Faith
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- Faith in childhood
- Doesn’t reflect on faith or ask questions about faith
- Very into narrative and story-telling faith
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Stage 2 – Mythic Literal Faith
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- Faith in adolescents
- Religion is meaningful, but doesn’t apply to life
- Thinks about faith abstractly, not critically
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Stage 3 – Synthetic Conventional Faith
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- 20 – 40ish age range
- Self-authored faith; takes faith individually and creates personal meaning
- Values are coherent
- CROSSROADS of faith
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Stage 4 – Individuative – Reflection Faith
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- 40ish – ? Takes place in mid-life
- Realizes complexity of life and becomes more accepting of other faiths
- Their faith is still their own even though other views are accepted
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Stage 5 – Conjunctive Faith
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- This is a hard phase to get to (examples of MLK, Ghandi, etc)
- Decentralizes self
- Only achieved through partnership with Spirit
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Stage 6 – Universalizing Faith
12
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Name 3 Transitions between each stage:
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- Disengagement from a particular relational context
- Dis-identification is the loss of one’s sense of self that accompanies disengagement
- Disenchantment involves parting with one’s previous view of reality and experiencing feelings of grief, loss, confusion, and in some cases, liberation
- Disorientation is the culmination of the other three aspects which leads to the neutral zone
- Eventually explore a new beginning
