Spiritual Development Theorists

M.Scott Peck's stages were my first introduction to the idea of spiritual development. Click here to read about M Scott Peck's stages in very simplified form.

The next one is James Fowler, (click here to read about Fowler) probably the major contributor to this concept.

There are at least fourteen other spiritual development theorists whose work on some way corresponds to Fowler's and Peck's and which will eventually appear on this site. For another of the major ones, I am going to refer you to my old blog: BeliefStagesandGrowth.com:

-Ken Wilber

Others will be listed here one by one as I am able to get to them.

BeliefStagesandGrowth.com - Resource Report

Other theorists to consider are:

-Paul Ricoeur (click here to read about Ricoeur)

-Gordon Allport (click here to read about Allport)

-Heinz Streib (click here) who calls them relgious "styles" instead of "stages." (More "pc" I suppose) -Saint Teresa of Avila who wrote in the sixteenth century

-Helmut Reich who whose work centers around the development of reasoning skills and has applied that concept to religious development. Developing Horizons of the Mind

-Fritz Oser Religious Judgment

-Walter Clark, who wrote The Psychology of Religion

-Lawrence Kohlberg with his Stages of Moral Development

-Carolyn Myss who speaks in terms of chakras instead of stages

-Michael Bernard Beckwith of Agape International

-Reverend Margaret Shepard - Four Stages of Spiritual Development

-Jone Johnson Lewis, quoting from Reuben Snake, whose work involved wisdom about Native American spirituality.

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