The Human Formation podcast aims to promote the pioneering formation science of the Dutch priest & psychologist Fr. Dr. Adrian van Kaam. This podcast is specifically relevant to those interested in spiritual formation and the interplay of spirituality and psychology. If you like Thomas Merton, Henri Nouwen, Dallas Willard, or John Mark Comer, you will feel at home.Hosts:Spencer Loman (PhD in progress) is the Discipleship Pastor at Indiana Wesleyan University and adjunct professor.Dr. Rebecca Letterman served Northeastern Seminary as Professor of Spiritual Formation for two decades.
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Signup to Generate a PitchThe Human Formation podcast aims to promote the pioneering formation science of the Dutch priest & psychologist Fr. Dr. Adrian van Kaam. This podcast is specifically relevant to those interested in spiritual formation and the interplay of spirituality and psychology. If you like Thomas Merton, Henri Nouwen, Dallas Willard, or John Mark Comer, you will feel at home.
Recent episodes include "Ep. 10: Faith & Form Traditions" (2 June 2025, 43 minutes), "Ep. 9: Full Field Appraisal" (28 May 2025, 53 minutes), and "Ep. 8: Essence & Existence" (26 May 2025, 45 minutes).
The Human Formation Podcast publishes roughly a few times a week, with episodes averaging 45 minutes across 10 episodes.
Booking probability for The Human Formation Podcast is 18%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. The Human Formation Podcast requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. The Human Formation Podcast's contact route on record: verified email.
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The Human Formation Podcast is a religion podcast with 10 episodes published.
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The Human Formation Podcast
<p>In this episode we consider van Kaam's faith & form traditions. We all inhabit passed down systems of beliefs or "faith traditions," as well as ways we act, or don't act, on those beliefs ("form traditions"). The...
The Human Formation Podcast
<p>In this episode, we unpack the full field appraisal process as laid out by Fr. van Kaam. This process and disposition takes place as we select and live certain formative events within our formation field. It is...
The Human Formation Podcast
<p>This episode explores Adrian van Kaam's greatest critique of existentialism — that our essence precedes our existence. Jean Paul Sartre was famous for articulating that human being don't have a "nature," just a...
The Human Formation Podcast
<p>This episode unpacks Adrian van Kaam's invitation to a consonant life. All human beings feel a longing for wholeness, completeness, and integration. Van Kaam specifically, given his personalist grounding, looks at...
The Human Formation Podcast
<p>In this episode we look at van Kaam's formation field construct. Field theory rose to prominence in physics during the early 19th century which then influenced psychology — specifically field theorists like Kurt...
<p>What dimensions makeup the human person? Many have presented various models throughout philosophy and psychology—Plato, Aquinas, Soren Kierkegaard, Dallas Willard. In this episode we look at Adrian van Kaam's...
<p>What makes human persons unique out of all life forms? According to van Kaam, it is the human spirit, or what he calls, the "transcendence dynamic." Spirituality, is what we organize around that innate. dynamic. We...
<p>In this episode we give an overview of van Kaam's science of Formative Spirituality, which is made up of formation science, formation anthropology, and formation theology. We also explain the difference between...
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<p>In this episode we unpack the rise to influence that Adrian van Kaam had within the "third force" of psychology and specifically his connection to Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers. van Kaam taught psychology, and led...
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<p>This first episode provides a historical and biographical sketch of Fr. Adrian van Kaam who was born in 1920 in The Hague, The Netherlands.</p><p><br></p><p>If you like Dallas Willard, you'll appreciate Fr. van...
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