ABSTRACT
Maturational limitations and sheer inexperience will obviously restrict thinking among younger children. Intuitive, often termed Pre-operational, thinking has several important characteristics. Before children move out of the limitations of intuitive thinking they appear to pass through an intermediate stage where they are striving to break out of their limitations, because they are clearly unsatisfactory to them. There is evidence that no sudden change in thinking occurs with the onset of adolescence, nor with transition from one type of school to another. A more intelligent child has more ability to call upon, in religion as in other areas of experience, and the people would expect him to do better. A great deal of religious thinking is propositional and therefore can only be dealt with at a formal operational level of thought, to be intellectually satisfying.
