"I grew up in the Baptist church, but when I went off to college, I really had to question all the ideas I'd been given as a child and as a teenager. For a while I called myself an atheist. But now I find myself drawn back to the Baptists. It just seems to me that the church offers answers to questions I've been asking myself." Which of Fowler's stages of faith does this statement most reflect?

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The statement reflects the individuative-reflective stage of faith, as the individual is questioning and examining their beliefs, rather than simply accepting them as they did in the synthetic-conventional stage. However, they are not yet firmly committed to a specific set of beliefs or practices, which is characteristic of the conjunctive or universalizing stages.

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