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Elliot is a 19-year-old man. He is able to understand abstractions. He feels deeply about his faith but has not systematically reflected upon it. According to Fowler, he is in the ______ faith stage.

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Answer: Synthetic-conventional faith

Step-by-step explanation:

The synthetic-conventional faith is one of the stages of faith development according to James W. Fowler. This stage arises in the adolescent stage and can remain throughout adulthood. Here faith has to provide orientation coherently during the various systems in which the person finds himself, such as family, work or school, friends and the media. The person has faith, but in turn, does not have a sufficient understanding of his own identity, he struggles to build and maintain an independent perspective.

Also at this stage, the person can be seen as conformist since, if he expresses that he has faith, but he has to do more work to deepen and understand more about what it is about.

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