Stages of Faith: The Psychology of Human Development...

By: James W. Fowler Each person is destined to encounter a crisis in their faith during their lives. This is a very predictable event. Most of us don't understand that the stages of the development of our faith and wrongfully presume that we are right in our feelings at any given moment. We fail to understand the development curve in this process. Jesus said it best in the second verse of the Gospel of Thomas. He said that we are expected to search until we find, but when we find we will be disturbed. It is that phase of being disturbed that most concerns us, though there is a very predictable later stage of development which returns us to the traditions of our fathers. This is the most important book in understanding the progression of faith ever written. It is a must for those who read books from this site. The Greeks understood this process and illustrate it in their legends of Pandora's Box. If we remember correctly when you lift the lid to Pandora's Box the evils of the world escape into our lives. However, most of us don't know that the final element that comes out of Pandora's Box is in fact "Hope". This paradym book is most helpful to those who have wandered too and fro from one belief to another, not understanding the final chapter of all of our lives. The final prophecy is clear. It says that in the end "Every knee shall bow and tongue confess that Jesus is the Christ".