“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,… — James W. Fowler Copy Share Image
“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
