The document discusses faith development and James Fowler's stages of faith. It explores questions about who Jesus is and why he had to die. It also examines the different stages of faith development from childhood through adulthood, including intuitive-projective faith in early childhood, mythic-literal faith in middle childhood, synthetic-conventional faith in adolescence, individuative-reflective faith in emerging adulthood, and conjunctive faith in middle adulthood. Finally, it asks what causes faith to grow or change over these developmental stages.

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2c Faith Development

2. patterned knowing (belief)
patterned valuing (commitment, devotion)
patterned construction of meaning (narrative, story)
James Fowler
2c Faith Development

3. 2c Faith Development
More than teaching
More than knowledge
More than experience
More than feelings
More than evidence
More than belonging
More than thinking
More than doing
More than confidence
More than historical
More than believing…

4. 2c Faith Development
Who is Jesus?
Why did Jesus have to die?

5. 2c Faith Development
Who is Jesus?
Why did Jesus have to die?

6. 2c Faith Development
Who is Jesus?
Why did Jesus have to die?

7. 2c Faith Development
Who is Jesus?
Why did Jesus have to die?

8. 2c Faith Development
Who is Jesus?
Why did Jesus have to die?

9. 2c Faith Development
Who is Jesus?
Why did Jesus have to die?

10. 2c Faith Development
Faith - perception of God’s grace
Faith is given
Faith grows

11. 2c Faith Development
Experienced faith - feeling (pre-school and early childhood)
Affiliative faith - belonging (childhood and early adolescene)
Searching faith - questioning (late adolescene)
Owned faith or mature faith (early adulthood)

12. 2c Faith Development
Faith develops in stages
Building
Reconstructing

13. 2c Faith Development
Intuitive-projective faith (imagination / fantasy, 3-7 years)
Mythic-literal faith (is it real / black and white, 7-12 years)
Synthetic-concentional (conformity / relational, 12-18 years)
Individuative-reflective (owning faith / examining, 18-40 years)
Conjunctive faith (selfless / wisdom, 40+ years)
Universalizing faith (openness / leaders, rare)

14. 2c Faith Development
Building bricks
verses
tree rings

15. 2c Faith Development
What causes our faith
to grow or change?