Stages of Faith... one last quote!

Perhaps the most important thing that can be said in concluding this book is that our study of faith development, so far, underscores the fact that we human beings seem to have a generic vocation - a universal calling - to be related to the Ground of Being in a relationship of trust and loyalty. That vocation calls us into a covenantal relationship with the transcendent and with the neighbour - when the neighbour is understood radically to be all being. Faith development studies confirm the judgment that human beings are genetically potentiated - that is to say, are gifted at birth - with readiness to develop in faith.