Balswick, Jack O.

The Reciprocating Self : Human Development in Theological Perspective / Jack O. Balswick, Pamela Ebstyne King, and Kevin S. Reimer - Downers Grove, Ill. : InterVarsity Press, 2005 - 334 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

PART ONE: TOWARD AN INTEGRATED MODEL OF HUMAN DEVELOPMENT -- Developmental Dilemma -- Reciprocating Self : A Trinitarian Analogy of Being and Becoming -- Reciprocating Relationships -- Reciprocating Self and Developmental Theory -- Reciprocating Self in Social Context -- PART TWO: LIFE-SPAN STAGES -- Infancy : The Emergence of the Reciprocating Self -- Childhood : The Reciprocating Self Goes to School -- Adolescence : More Reciprocity Than You Think -- Emerging Adulthood and Young Adulthood : The Solidifying of the Reciprocating Self -- Middle Adulthood : The Generativity of the Reciprocating Self -- Late Adulthood: The Senescing of the Reciprocating Self -- PART THREE: BUILDING THE SCAFFOLD: APPLICATIONS FOR MINISTRY -- Special Issues in Human Development: Morality -- Differentiated Faith: Spiritual and Religious Development -- Turning Steeples into Scaffolds: The Reciprocating Religious Community.

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Life cycle, Human—Religious aspects—Christianity.Developmental psychology—Religious aspects—Christianity.Maturation (Psychology)—Religious aspects—Christianity.

BV4597.555 / .B25 2005