Title: Exceptional book on spiritual development
Review: This book was on my recommended reading list for a human development course, and yet the main course books kept citing it as a resource. I purchased it because I cited often from it directly and truly enjoyed the writing style and spiritual insights viewed through the lens of human development. Loder uses his theoretical perspective to explain the human development stages. For example their are certain spiritual components a grade school child may understand, just as an adolescent may experience a certain level of spiritual understanding. Loder writes almost lyrical at times in expressing spiritual experience at the various life stages, but this is not necessarily a book for the average reading crowd. Some of the theology was beyond my understanding, and some of the theology I did understand, I disagreed with (from my own perspective). However, i would recommend this book for someone approaching pastoral counseling as a career.
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