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Daniel Hickman
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The Light of Love
Now we arrive at the final symbol we will examine in our series on the Heart of Christ: the element of light!
We will consider how light is revelation… expansion… unified duality… and logos.
The 8 Stages of Faith: Fowler, Spiral, and Vervaeke
As people grow and develop, how does their faith develop with them?
Faith is the pattern of one’s relatedness to and concern for what is real and ultimate. And each of these 8 stages are patterns and dimensions to faith — and thus, we all have access to an 8-dimentional faith-space.
Lenses of Moral Reasoning: A Spiral Dynamics Approach
Why should one thing should be done (or seen as moral/good) over another?
Through the Spiral Dynamics framework, we discover a psycho-social progression of how morality is understood — through 8 different lenses: Self-Preservation, Familiar-Convention, Desire-Happiness, Absolute-Law, Nuanced-Context, Subjective-Relation, Yes-And, and Lived-Participation.
Reflections on Dialectical Thinking
“Dialectical thinking” is a way of thinking in which 2 opposing perspectives/ideas are in “dialogue” with each other and truth emerges from the interaction between the two. It’s a paradoxical way of thinking, with sees truth in both extremes. Rather than striving for an “either/or,” it generously accepts a “both/and.”
…Dialectical thinking requires the ability to accept and trust the mystery… all the cosmos is made out of diversity in unity — out of the paradox of Love which makes life, and emergence, possible!