Amore wrote:I do regret bringing up my son to a board where people like you frequent.
As do I. I'm sorry we had to witness you pimping your family out to make a theological point. It was disgusting.
Amore wrote:Let this be a warning to me and others who have brought up their children on this forum, that although most people are mentally healthy, there are some sick people and it's best to err on the side of caution.
I agree. Mentally sane people wouldn't discuss their family on a public forum, and then act skeezed out when someone was curious about their discussion with said family. That smacks of an un-diagnosed pathology.
Amore wrote:Fowler emphasized trust, not imagination (like you assumed) as the essence of faith.
Well. Since you clearly don't know what in the Screw you're talking about, I'll let Dr. Fowler speak for himself
(emphasis mine):
“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 who reserve the right to choose and who are prepared to take responsibility for their choices. I sometimes call this the emergence of the executive ego.
The two essential features of the emergence of Stage 4, then, are the critical distancing from one's previous assumptive value system and the emergence of the executive ego. . . .
We find that sometimes many persons complete half of this double movement, but do not complete the other.”
― James W. Fowler, Stages of Faith: The Psychology of Human Development and the Quest for Meaning
“In German one of the terms for imagination is the compound word Einbildungskraft: literally, the "power ( Kraft)" of "forming ( Bildung)" into "one (Ein)." Here I want us to reflect about faith as a kind of imagination. Faith forms a way of seeing our everyday life in relation to holistic images of what we may call the ultimate environment. Human action always involves responses and initiatives. We shape our action (our responses and initiatives) in accordance with what we see to be going on. We seek to fit our actions into, or oppose them to, larger patterns of action and meaning. Faith, in its binding us to centers of value and power and in its triadic joining of us into communities of shared trusts and loyalties, gives forms and content to our imaging of an ultimate environment.”
― James W. Fowler, Stages of Faith: The Psychology of Human Development and the Quest for Meaning
In other words, his Methodism is on full display, he believes in the development of a mature (emergent) mind (ego), idealizes that which he desires (faith), and then goes about striving for it (action).
Amore wrote:So much for some adults on this forum being able to discuss Fowler's elementary idea about faith development.
So, basically you don't know what the Screw you're talking about, had no central point because you fundamentally don't understand psychology nor are you familiar with Methodism, and you thought you could crap out some psycho-babble vis a vis an imaginative conversation you apparently had with your doctoral thesis-level son.
Madame, if you don't want to be called out on your stupidity then I suggest you don't fire off the first dummy round.
V/R
Dr. Cameron, PhD, Cassius University
, though you may have misspelled it or used an acceptable though uncommon variant spelling of the word. When I tried to look it up, the closest thing I found was: 