“When we are grasped by the vision of a center of value and power more luminous, more inclusive and more true than that to which we are devoted, we initially experience the new as the enemy or the slayer -… — James W. Fowler Copy Share Image
“In addition to the kind of critical reflection on one's previous assumptive or tacit system of values we saw Jack undertake, there must be, for Stage 4, a relocation of authority within the self. While others and their judgments will remain important to the Individuative-Reflective person, their expectations, advice and counsel will be submitted to an internal panel of experts… — James W. Fowler Copy Share
“In German one of the terms for imagination is the compound word Einbildungskraft: literally, the "power ( Kraft)" of "forming ( Bildung)" into "one… — James W. Fowler Copy Share Image
“Piaget-…A stage then, we may say, is an integrated set of operational structures that constitute the thought processes of a person at a given… — James W. Fowler Copy Share Image
“Most of all I found myself listening- listening in the acutely active way that makes dialogue a truly hermeneutical act. Hermeneutics is the science… — James W. Fowler Copy Share Image
“When we are grasped by the vision of a center of value and power more luminous, more inclusive and more true than that to… — James W. Fowler Copy Share Image
I believe faith is a human universal. We are endowed at birth with nascent capacities for faith. How these capacities are activated and grow… — James W. Fowler Copy Share Image
Faith is an orientation of the total person, giving purpose and goal to one's hopes and strivings, thoughts and actions. — James W. Fowler Copy Share Image
“Frequently I remember something H. Richard Niebuhr wrote after having spent a number years trying to formulate a comprehensive perspective on faith. He likens… — James W. Fowler Copy Share Image
