TY - BOOK AU - Van Kaam,Adrian L. TI - Scientific formation / T2 - Formative spirituality SN - 0824508416 PY - 1987/// CY - New York PB - Crossroad KW - Spiritual life KW - Catholic Church KW - Developmental psychology KW - Christianity KW - Psychology N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-307) and index; Formation science as a human science -- New standpoint of formation science -- Scientific dispositions -- Formation science and the other sciences -- Complexity of formation -- Form appreciative apprehensions -- Field approach of formation science -- Events and directives -- Genesis of the methodology of formation science -- Methods of formation science -- Genesis of the selection and articulation methods -- Methods of dialogical selection and articulation -- Genesis of the methodology of elucidation -- Theoretical basis of elucidation of formation dynamics : basic consonance-dissonance dynamics -- Coformants of dynamic constellations -- The object of elucidation -- Principles of methodical elucidation -- Process of elucidation -- Methods of elucidation -- Interaction of elucidation and other methods -- Dialogical consultation and formation reason -- Integration, translation, transposition -- Prescientific, scientific, and postscientific language -- Common, segmental, traditional, and metalingual system -- Formation science and auxillary sources -- Transcendent orientation of language -- Metalanguage of formation traditions ER -