What are thelifelong progressions of spritual growth? how do they correlate with various theories of human development phases?

1. CharacterFormation:
Humanness&Spirituality
• Jesus was both fully God and fully man.
• To be fully spiritual is to be fully human
• To be mature in Christ is to be fully human
• To be mature in Christ is to have a complete
godly character.

2. Part1:Classical
Virtues
What are the 7 Godly Virtues?
What are the 7 Deadly Sins?
How do Virtues and Values
Differ?
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3. Catholic vs Evangelical
Foundations to Spirituality
Evangelicalism
• Is founded on a multiplying web of revivals around
the globe, growing out of Franciscan, then Pietist
revivals
• The presence of the Spirit is core to our
understanding of spiritual growth or Sanctification.
• Spirituality is thus an outworking of his
overwhelming presence.
• That presence brings inner values change
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The tendency: Its all God’s work
Different perspectives on the Holy Spirit result in different approaches to spirituality

4. Catholic vs Evangelical
Foundations to Spirituality
Based on the idea of the Spirit, as the Spirit of Wisdom and
Understanding, who brings discernment, Catholic
Spirituality places heavy emphasis on academic education
as the foundation of spirituality and values are a significant
theme - a major contribution.
• With a historic antipathy to outbreaks of revival
there has been a historic avoidance in many
Catholic circles of the “enthusiasms” of the Spirit
• Education builds values imposed from the outside,
external norms imposed by society through
education.
• (Though there are also Catholic orders of the Holy
Spirit who seek various patterns of mysticism).
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This is valuable as Catholic spiritual
Formation thus show us how to engage
the human dimensions of spirituality.

5. 7GodlyVirtues
The Three Pauline Virtues
The Four Classical Greek Virtues (or
are they all Jesus’ Values?)
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Faith
Hope
Love
Temperance
Understanding
Wisdom
Prudence
What elements
make up a good or
moral person?
Each virtue can be
analyzed in terms
of feelings,
behaviors and
skills How are they
released in a
city?

6. Classical GreekVirtues
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Prudence: The Habit of choosing the right
means to achieve worthy ends
Justice: The Habit of rendering the other
his/her rights
Temperance: The Habit of moderation in the
use of pleasurable things
Fortitude: The Habit of restraining fear or
moderation of rash behavior in the face of
danger or difficulty

7. Classical GreekVirtues:What Makes the Moral Man?
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Subjective Parts: Sub-categories of the virtues that are
distinct from each other
Potential parts: Virtues related to the Cardinal Virtue, but
are not complete expressions of the cardinal virtue
Integral Parts: Conditions and actions that are necessary to
perfect the virtue as a habit.

8. Classical GreekVirtues
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10. SevenCardinal
Sins
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Seven deadly sins, also called seven capital
sins or seven cardinal sins, in Roman
Catholic theology, the seven vices that spur
other sins and further immoral behavior.
First enumerated by Pope Gregory I (the
Great) in the 6th century and elaborated in
the 13th century by St. Thomas Aquinas
Note; The Catholic church calls them deadly
(unforgivable) sins, but the Bible does not.
All sin leads to death.

11. SevenCardinalSins SevenVirtues
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(1) pride
(2) greed, or covetousness
(3) lust, or inordinate or illicit
sexual desire
(4) envy
(5) gluttony, including drunkenness
(6) anger
(7) sloth
Each of these can be overcome with
the seven corresponding virtues of:
(1) humility
(2) charity
(3) Chastity
(4) gratitude
(5) temperance
(6) Patience
(7) diligence
Put off the old nature Put on the new nature (Ephesians 4:22-24)

12. Expanding the List ofVirtues
• Each culture defines its own ideal
virtues
• Each religion defines its own ideal
virtues
• And there are universal virtues:
Love, Truthfulness, Fairness
(Justice), Freedom, Unity,
Tolerance, Responsibility, Respect
for Life (Research in Kidder,
Rushworth M. (1994). Shared
Values for a Troubled World.
Jossey-Bass
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What are five) virtues central to your
culture?

13. Three Views: What is the Goal of Virtues &
Their Relationship to the Public Sphere
(the Heart of the City)?
1. Self-Actualization - Aristotle:
Happiness.
2. Cultural Determinism: Thomas Hobbes
(1588-1679), Baruch Spinoza: Self-
preservation determines virtues.
3. Societal Norms: Immanuel Kant:
internal knowledge of virtue is
connected to an obligation to external
societal norms...
A
Virtuous
City?
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14. DifferentiatingVirtues and
Values
They are often used interchangeably,
but are they the same?
• Virtues and values are ideals
expressed as priorities
• A Subset: Virtues are narrower in
scope than Values. They have
specific ends in mind.
• Values are aspirational. Our reality
may not reflect our values.
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15. Process:Valuesformcharacter
.
Thewaywethinkdetermineswhowe
become.
Buthowdotheserelatetothefruitofthe
spirit?Tothemarksofdarkness?
Orarethesesimplytobe“puton”and
“putoff“byourselves?
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17. Other CharacterValues (Virtues)
in the Scriptures
The Old and New Testament affirm
many other values
• Paul rejects speaking in tongues
(and other gifts) as the sign of
spirituality and composes the
greatest writings on the nature of
love in 1 Cor 13
• He links these in faith, hope and
love – adding two directional values
• Values are aspirational. Hope and
faith are aspirations as to a better
future
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18. OtherValues –Which are Biblical
• From the Virtues Project Inernational
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19. Part2:Progressions
Psychologicaland
EducationalTheories
ofDevelopment
Most have significant basis in
analysis, some are purely
theories that became popular.
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How do Values affect our becoming
fully Human, fully mature in Christ?
The directional values of hope and
faith lead to the question as to a
progression of values development,
lifelong expansion of values.

21. Fowler’s Question: What are the Stages of
Personal Spiritual (Mystical) Development?
1. Over 100 years what are developmental stages of life?
2. What are the stages of spiritual growth?
3. How do these map onto each other? Do they?
Stage 1
Prebirth
Stage 2 Early
Childhood
Stage 3
Childhood
Stage 4
Youth
Stage 5
Adulthood
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Photo: 1924 My Mother, Grandmother, Great
Grandmother. How have these three
generations and their spirituality impacted my
progressions of growth?

22. The Question:
DRAW A LIFE
PHASES
ROADMAP
How many phases?
What are the
Milestones?
What are the
Transitions?
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23. Multiple theories from multiple
disciplines
1. Piaget’s educational theories.
2. Kohlberg and Moral Development
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• An educational theorist
• Values emerge through a
developmental process
• Just as cognitive skills develop so does
our ability to choose right from wrong.

24. Comparison of
Infrastructural
Models:
3.Erikson’s Life-Cycle
Stages
4. Kohlberg’s Stages
of Moral
Development
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25. Comparison of
Erikson’s and
Kohlberg’s
Models (2)
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26. 5. Maslow’s Hierarchy
of Needs
But the level of community
psychological health factors into the
level of development.
Premise: Before a person can
engage in higher values such as
justice they must meet their basic
needs such as food and shelter. But
there is no research basis for one
level leading to the next.
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27. Part3:Integrationof
Theories
Isthereameta-theory?
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28. Integration -TheTonna-Hall Inventory
An Anglican Priest-psychologist and a Catholic
Monsignor built on these theories to develop the
Tonna-Hall inventory of 132 value pairs.
• They then arranged them according to phases of life
• They analysed the turning points or paradigm shifts between
phases
• They applied them to group formation of collective values in
organizations or movements.
• They did research along the way, but the foundations of these
theories is shaky as they pulled from multiple sources, and the
complexity of trying to integrate them into a grand theory is
likely beyond human capacities.
• But it allows us a valuable opportunity to consider lifelong
values formation
• We still are not yet answering, “how does the Holy Spirit form
such values within us and our people?”
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29. Tonna-Hall
Inventory and
Your Inner Urban
Journey
They integrated six
perspectives from
Psychology, Education
and Spiritual Growth
Theory as to the various
phases of life.
Tonna and Hall identified
132 universal value pairs
and how these develop at
each of these six stages
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Part 4: Urban Spirituality: How
do our values impact the
Urban Context at various life
stages?

32. ??? Comparison of EconomicValues and SpiritualValues
Values are an ethereal idea, formed in
philosophy, education, psychology….
If the Kingdom is both the redemption of
our Humanness and of our relationship to
the Land, what values are distinctly earthy
in our Christianity?
It is the Spirit who generates Values
Creative spirit, the Spirit of fruitfulness, who
strengthens our work, brings rest to our
souls, creates community, superintends the
structuring of the universe….
Ten Economic Values
Creativity, productivity, work and rest,
cooperative economics, management,
redistribution, ownership etc…
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33. Not just inner moral values
Not just social moral values
How do these relate to our urban
context?
If the Kingdom is both the redemption of our humanness
and of our relationship to the land, what values are
distinctly earthy in our Christianity?
Do these exist in:
• Islam?
• Hinduism?
• Pentecostalism?
• Presbyterianism?
• Liberation Theology?
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e.g. Environmental Spirituality?

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Or How Does the
Urban Context Impact
these Life Stages and
Values?
Our anthropological
spirituality is impacted
by our sociological
realities

35. Part 5: How does the Holy Spirit build these values across a lifetime?
Inner Values Life’s transitions Leadership Formation
• Christ is our Life: His spirit
brings life to our mortal
bodies (Romans 8:11)
• He is all and in all
• His character increasingly
becomes our character as
we bury ourselves in the
word and his presence (Gal
5:22,23).
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• The Spirit is our counsellor
and comforter (John
14:15), our healer, taking
the traumas and tragedies
of life and converting
them into character (1
Peter 1:3-5).
• He smooths the rough
places
• He leads us and guides us,
both besides still waters
and in the shadow of
death (Psalm 23).
• As we go downwards in service, he
manifests himself to us through the
Spirit (John 12:24-26)
• The fruit of the Spirit (Gal 5:22,23)
becomes the fruit of our lives (John
15:16).
• He glorifies the Father in and through
us (John 16:13).
• The stream of living water becomes
the healing of the nations in that
bride of Christ (Rev 22:1,2), like salt
and light (Matt 5:13-16)
incrementally redeeming the nations.
• The Spirit groans for the restoration
of the whole creation (Romans
8:22,23).

36. Expansion ofValues: EstablishingValues
from individual to community to movement to nations
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Development ofValues overTime
• Values for Self: In early years master the scriptures
(inner values, spiritual discipleship)
• Values in Business: In our young adult years, master
economic realities (ten economic principles, economic
discipleship)
• Values Multiplication through Movement Leadership: In
middle years master the disciplines of a movement
(social values)
• National Values Leadership: In later years disciplines of
interconnectivity (discipling nations)
• Global Spiral of Values: In final years, master
philosophies (power conflict) In sociology, Alan Webster
integrates multiple theories

37. Part 6:The End Result of the Pilgrimage: Fully Mature in Christ
• Christ formed in us
• The Father Glorified
• When we see you, we see Jesus
• Maturity in Christ
• At each stage
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• Fellowship with Christ
• Friendship with God
• All things Reconciled in Christ
• The Creation restored
• Humanity Redeemed
• We have touched a million people

38. Readings
• Kelcourse, Felicity. 2015. Human Development and Faith:
Life-Cycle Stages of Body, Mind, and Soul. 2nd Edn.
• Fowler, James. 1981. Stages of Faith. Harper and Row.
• Kohlberg, Lawrence. 1981. The Philosophy of Moral
Development. Harper and Row.
• Hagberg, Janet O. and Robert A. Guelich. 2004. The Critical
Journey, Stages in the Life of Faith, 2nd Edn. Sheffield
Publishing Company.
• Levinson, Daniel. 1986. The Seasons of a Man’s Life.
Ballantine Books; Reissue edition.
• Hall, Brian. 1995. Values Shift: A Guide to Personal and
Organizational Transformation. Twin Lights
• Publishing.Webster, Alan. 2001. Spiral of Values. Hawera,
New Zealand, Alpha Publications.
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