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Spiritual Gifts: A Psychometric Extension

Journal of Psychology and Theology, 1994
Spiritual gifts inventories appear to be constructed in a scientific manner, but they are often technically inadequate. The current study examined the psychometric properties of the Objective Questionnaire Testing set of the Motivational Spiritual Gifts Inventory (MGI). Analyses of the questionnaire data indicated that despite the apparent strength of
Stewart E. Cooper, Stephen D. Blakeman
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Spiritual Gifts

2017
Abstract Mormons believe that spiritual gifts must be in evidence in the true church and cited them frequently as evidence of a divinely sanctioned “restoration” of the gospel. Even many contemporary Restorationists broke with Mormons on the question of cessationism.
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Spiritual sensitivity in gifted children

Roeper Review, 1998
Starting from an early age, some gifted children show evidence of spiritual sensitivity. These children understand the universality of spiritual concepts such as forgiveness of others, develop spiritual self‐awareness through asking questions and finding spiritual problems to solve, develop a systematic philosophy of life and death, or are seekers of ...
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Parting gifts: the spiritual needs of children

Journal of Child Health Care, 2006
This article discusses the spiritual lives of children who are facing severe illness or bereavement. Initially, it describes a children's story which had some impact on the author's spiritual views during childhood. The concept of children as spiritual beings is discussed and questions are raised as to why relatively little attention has been given to
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‘Spiritual’ Gifts in the Pauline Community

New Testament Studies, 1974
The role of St Paul's co-workers may be inferred in some measure from the designations or ‘titles’ given to them. When used of colleagues in the Christian mission, the term ‘brothers’ often means preachers although it may include travelling companions (συνεκδήμοι) and others who are not necessarily engaged in ‘religious’ functions.
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Spirituality in the gifted: Proposals for the spiritual development of the intellectually gifted

Gifted Education International
The purpose of this article is to review the relevance of spirituality in the intellectually gifted and to derive a proposal for helping and guiding them in their spiritual concerns based on their psychological characteristics that may influence the way they experience spirituality.
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Spiritual Gifts and Status Inversion

2017
This chapter enlists Carole Crumley’s notion of heterarchy as a means of critiquing and refining Wayne Meeks’s notion of status inconsistency as it pertains to Pauline assemblies. The chapter shows that status is to be viewed not only as a multidimensional phenomenon but also as the subject of intense contest, negotiation, and change over time.
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Spiritual Gifts and Spiritual Formation in 1 Corinthians and Ephesians

Journal of Pentecostal Theology, 2013
This article seeks to define ‘spiritual formation’ as it would be understood by the apostle, and to relate that concept to his teaching on spiritual gifts, with particular reference to 1 Corinthians and Ephesians. It argues that in Ephesians spiritual gifts of wisdom and revelation build the ‘body’ towards the goal of cosmic re-unification in Christ ...
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Religion and Spirituality between Capital and Gift

Religion and Theology, 2011
Abstract The main concern of this paper is the question of what sociological concepts are appropriate to describe resources derived from religious participation and belief. I test two possibilities: first, the capital paradigm and second, the gift theory.
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Islam’s Gift: An Economy of Spiritual Development

The American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 2019
AbstractAccording to the standard narrative, economics is an objective and scientific study of universal laws applicable to economic affairs of modern societies. After a brief introduction, the second section of the article presents a counter‐narrative that disputes this claim, and provides an alternative point of view that situates modern economics ...
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