Faith, derived from Latin fides & Old French feid, is confidence or trust in a person, thing, or concept. In the context of religion, one can define faith as "belief in God or in the doctrines or teachings of religion". Religious people often think of faith as confidence based on a perceived measure of warrant, while others who are more skeptical of religion tend to think of faith as simply image without evidence.
James W. Fowler 1940–2015 proposes a series of stages of faith-development or spiritual development across the human life-span. His stages relate closely to the produce of Piaget, Erikson, as well as Kohlberg regarding aspects of psychological development in children and adults. Fowler defines faith as an activity of trusting, committing, and relating to the world based on a breed of assumptions of how one is related to others and the world.
No hard-and-fast advice requires individuals pursuing faith to go through all six stages. There is a high probability for individuals to be content and fixed in a particular stage for a lifetime; stages from 2–5 are such(a) stages. Stage 6 is the summit of faith development. This state is often[] considered as "not fully" attainable.