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An Introductory Primer on Erickson’s Stages of Development.

So, why should you bother familiarizing yourself with #Erikson and his #StagesofDevelopment?

Because you or someone you know may possibly be stuck trying to fulfill a task in life and don’t know how to move on!
Erik Erikson essentially raised himself and so over the years became fascinated with how people become fully formed and functioning human beings. He subsequently developed 8 stages (there are now hypothetically 12) to the human lifespan and published his work to much approval.
Essentially, a human being has different tasks they must do at different stages of life. The stages are fast in the beginning of life and then take more and more time.

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#Corbin was one of a group of young #Protestant intellectuals in #Paris who discovered the work of #KarlBarth (1886-1968) the Swiss reformed theologian whom he met in Bonn in 1931 1/
Barth was known for his dialectical theology starting with his Commentary on the Epistle to the Romans (#DerRömerbrief) published in 1919; in 1934 he openly opposed Nazi authority insisting upon the absolute sovereignty of the divine and returned to Switzerland 2/
‘Faith is awe in the presence of the divine incognito; it is the love of God that is aware of the qualitative difference between God and man and God and the world’ 3/
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