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James William Fowler III (1940–2015) was an American theologian who was Professor of Theology and Human Development at Emory University. He was director of both the Center for Research on Faith and Moral Development, and the Center for Ethics until he retired in 2005.
The best-known stage model of spiritual or religious development is that of James W. Fowler, a developmental psychologist at the Candler School of Theology, in his Stages of Faith. [ 56 ] [ 57 ] He follows Piaget and Kohlberg and has proposed a holistic staged development of faith (or spiritual development) across the lifespan.
The Faith Development Scale was first described by Gary Leak and his colleagues, in "The International Journal for the Psychology of Religion" for 1999. I have added a reference to a more recent publication by Leak to the article. However, in view of the title of this article, I still feel that this article is too heavily based on Fowler's work.
The development of the human mind is complex and a debated subject, and may take place in a continuous or discontinuous fashion. [4] Continuous development, like the height of a child, is measurable and quantitative, while discontinuous development is qualitative, like hair or skin color, where those traits fall only under a few specific phenotypes. [5]
In Piaget's theory of cognitive development, and related models like those of James Mark Baldwin, Jane Loevinger, Robert Kegan, Lawrence Kohlberg, and James W. Fowler, stages have a constant order of succession, later stages integrate the achievements of earlier stages, and each is characterized by a particular type of structure of mental ...
BOSTON — Rep. Susan Williams Gifford of Wareham has died, a spokesperson announced Wednesday morning. Gifford, the House minority whip who represented Middleboro, Carver and Wareham, died of ...
Some research indicates that parents can have a strong effect on religious development in children and adolescents, as they tend to adopt the religion that is practiced during their upbringing. [5] [6] [7] The relationship between parents and their children however can change this. If there is a positive relationship between the parents and ...
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