03.24.08
…..more about RCR
Besides correlating well with Fowler’s stages, Reich’s (see my post from March 16, 2008 on Relational and Contextual Reasoning) levels of reasoning ability also matched up well with the stages of religious judgement delineated by Fritz K. Oser. And - Oser’s stages more or less fit in with Fowler’s stages. (I will supply more information about Oser soon.)
In fact, Reich did a small study in which he interviewed thirty people and rated them on both their stage of religous judgement and their stage of reasoning ability. Well, he found a very high correlation between religious judgement (or stage) and level of relational and contextual reasoning. Although Reich’s study was very small his results do imply that people who can reason better tend to reach higher levels on the religious development scale.