Stage 5 Conjunctive Faith
A stage 5 person is so comfortable with their place in the grand scheme of things that they are more interested in what is true than what they believe, understanding that the two might be dissimilar. They try to see from any wise perspective and are constantly creating a woven tapestry of belief. They let reality speak for itself regardless of its impact on them.

This person trusts that the "known" is out there and takes the initiative to discover it.

"Religiously it knows that the symbols, stories, doctrines and liturgies offered by its own or other traditions are inevitably partial, limited to a particular people's experience of God and incomplete. Conjunctive faith, therefore, is ready for significant encounters with other traditions than its own, expecting that truth has disclosed and will disclose itself in those traditions in ways that may comlement or correct its own."

One in stage 5 is wiling to be converted by other ways of thinking. This does not mean that the person is wishy washy or uncommited to one's own truth tradition. Conjunctive faith's "radical openness" to other traditions comes from the belief that "reality" cannot be held entirely in one tradition and spills over into many traditions.
"The new strength of this stage comes in the rise of the ironic imagination ­ a capacity to see and be in one's or one's group's most powerful meanings, while simultaneously recognizing that they are relative, partial, and inevitably distorting apprehensions of trancendent reality.

"The truth, I believe, is that Stage 5, as a style of faith-knowing, does exist and it is complex. . ."

"Looking at a field of flowers simultaneously through a microscope and a wide-angle lens."

James W. Fowler