The Call of Wisdom

Adult Development within Christian Community, Part I: The Crisis of Modern Theories of Post-Formal Development

Datos Bibliográficos

ID20332018
AutoresEric L Johnson (0000-0003-4792-0149, Northwestern College, autor de correspondencia)
Año1996
Volumen24
Número2
Páginas83-92
Fecha de publicación1996-06-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Psychology and Theology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0091-6471 • E-ISSN: 2328-1162
EditorialSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/009164719602400201
OpenAlexW2789884960
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas20

Becoming an adult is a distinct, but gradual transition in the development of an individual. A number of theories exist that attempt to describe some important features that distinguish early adult cognition from adolescent, including differences in moral reasoning (Kohlberg), meaning-making (Perry), and faith development (Fowler), among others. After reviewing these three influential theories, some of their similarities are noted, including their common ancestry in modernity. A case is then made that present theories of qualitative adult cognitive development are only of limited value to the Christian community because they are as much an expression of modern thought as they are a documentation of how young adults in the United States accommodate to the modern thought to which they are exposed

Adult Development · Cognition · Cognitive development · Developmental psychology · Epistemology · Faith · Lawrence Kohlberg's stages of moral development · Meaning (existential) · Modernity · Moral development · Sociology · Value (mathematics) · Ego Development and Educational Practices · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology