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Daniel Hickman
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.
Sola Scriptura, Tradition, and Knitting
What is the right way to live? Who or what do I trust to tell me how?
In the Christian tradition, many sources have been "listened to," including scripture, tradition, reason, and experience.
In this article I propose that Tradition both births and interprets Scripture, and present a knitting analogy for how the 4 Wesleyan sources of authority relate.
Spiral Dynamics: A Framework for Everything
Spiral Dynamics is a development model which provides a language for understanding human (individual) and societal (collective) development, across many domains such as education, conflict resolution, political systems, value-systems, human needs, and much more!
What are the 4 Kinds of Knowing?
I'm writing to introduce a framework for understanding knowledge which I have found quite illuminating.
The “4 kinds of knowing” is developed by cognitive scientist John Vervaeke through extensive analysis and research. It groups "knowing" into 4 categories which are distinct, yet connected. These 4 kinds of knowing are: Propositional knowing (facts), Procedural knowing (skills), Perspectival knowing (awareness), and Participatory knowing (identity). Let's consider each one…