In groundbreaking fashion Donald Capps builds on the previous work of Erik Erikson and James Fowler on the eight stages of life and faith development by focusing on the decades of life. This important modification allows developmental theory to be applied to the way people actually
discuss life stages, which is in ten-year periods of people’s lives. Capps integrates the insights of psychology with those of pastoral care to show pastors and students how the decades of life impact churches and create situations and contexts for ministry.
Donald Capps is the William Harte Felmeth Professor of Pastoral Theology at Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton, New Jersey. He is a coauthor of Losers, Loners, and Rebels: The Spiritual Struggles of Boys and the author of more than two dozen books in pastoral theology, including Jesus the Village Psychiatrist, The Poet’s Gift, and The Child’s Song, all published by Westminster John Knox Press.
