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Showing 1 to 20 of 221 for “"gifts"”.
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Adolescence and Spiritual Gifts
… relations between adolescence and spiritual gifts. The study begins with the doctrine of the Holy Spirit, spiritual gifts, and adolescence. The results of this study attempts to link the life stage of adolescence with adulthood. The work attempts to suggest that the Holy Spirit works in the …
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A Rhetoric and Philosophy of Gifts
… question is what the relationship between gifts and rhetoric might be. In order to approach this question, this project offers a review of related literature on the topic of gifts. It then provides analysis and discussion that contextualize the question. The project finally concludes by …
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The gifts of Odin: the violaceous amethyst
The Gifts of Odin: The Violaceous Amethyst, follows the Miller family as they battle tarantula fish, learn secrets from trees, and go up against a conniving, double-crossing, espresso-drinking villain.
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Relationship Between Four Temperament Types and Nineteen Spiritual Gifts
… relationship between temperament and spiritual gifts. Traditionally they have been seen as offspring of discrete disciplines, the former belonging to the realm of psychology and the latter to theology. When some writers recently hypothesized a possible correlation between temperament and …
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The Correlation of Personality Factors with Spiritual Gifts Clusters
… correlation between temperaments and spiritual gifts, and psychological types and spiritual gifts, but fewer correlations than anticipated were identified.</p> <p>The purpose of this study was to explore hypothetical predictive models regarding the correlation between 16 personality factors and …
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Courtly constraints: clothing, gifts and honour in Medieval Romance
… to demonstrate how clothing, honour, gender and gifts shape the experiences of the characters as they find their social place, and disrupt the body as a category on which to base nobility. Although my texts emerge from different social and historical circumstances, the clothing they depict …
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Publicness, Priorities, and Mega-gifts: Does Money Change Anything?
… is made. In the two cases studied, mega-gifts were found to have some limited effects on salience of priorities. Three different interpretations can be drawn from the findings. First, as loosely-coupled structures, higher education institutions guard against change. Second, control is a …
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A Correlational Study of Jungian Psychological Types and Nineteen Spiritual Gifts
… the Jungian psychological types and spiritual gifts. The purpose of this study was to investigate the possible correlation between the Jungian psychological types and a selection of 19 spiritual gifts of the New Testament.</p> <p>Method</p> <p>This study employed two instruments to measure the …
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Major Gifts to The Seed Company : Who Gives Them and Why
<p>The Seed Company, a faith-based organization committed to Bible translation projects for hundreds of minority language communities, depends upon major donor support for its success and growth. There is a dearth of research available regarding philanthropic characteristics of major donors within …
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Gifts of Rights?: A Legal History of Employment Pension Plans in Canada
… from their 19th Century characterization as gifts to reward employees for long and faithful service, to their current 21st Century construction as terms of the contract of employment. The thesis argues that Canadian lawmakers within all three legal regimes structuring rights and obligations …
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Gifts Rescinded: The Impact of Losing the Gifted Label due to Relocation
Abstract High student mobility in some populations, coupled with an ever evolving and inconsistent conception of giftedness, has led to increasing numbers of students being labeled gifted in one location only to have that label taken away in another. This work examines the impact of gaining and …
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The development and initial validation of the Glassboro Inventory for Twelve-Step (GIFTS)
… of the Glassboro Inventory For Twelve-Step (GIFTS), a new measure of twelve-step engagement which improves upon previous twelve-step measures. The GIFTS was validated against the Alcoholics Anonymous Involvement (AAI; Tonigan, Connors, & Miller, 1996) as well as several positive psychology …
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Intangible gifts : a novel with accompanying exegesis ’Japan, the love story and myself’
The story is set in a small Australian city where there are strong undercurrents of religious and racial discrimination. Rosanna, the protagonist, narrates her life through fragments of memory, drawing upon her experience as a child and young woman in Australia and Japan. Her understanding of home …
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Cracked commodities, cursed gifts: Transacting women and conceptualizing exchange in early modern England
… of cultural work, and the distinction between gifts and commodities became an important ideological question. In responding to this question, Renaissance drama reveals how contemporary constructions of marriage and female sexuality both participate in and confound the effort to keep gift and …
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Gifts from Afar: The Creation of an Imperial Lapdog in Tang–Song China
This thesis directly addresses a significant gap in the fields of sinology and pet studies by exploring pre-modern Chinese pet-keeping practices in detail for the first time in either discipline. More specifically, this thesis centres on the social and economic practice of lapdog-keeping across the …
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Supervising Gifted People: A Consideration of the Fivefold Gifts in the Effective Supervision of Missionaries
… GIFTED PEOPLE: A CONSIDERATION OF THE FIVEFOLD GIFTS IN THE EFFECTIVE SUPERVISION OF MISSIONARIES Donald Stanley Meador, Th.M. The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2017 Supervisor: Dr. M. David Sills God gifted to the church certain people with specific ministry functions in order to …
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Financial vs Non-Financial Gifts and Workers' Performance: An Experimental Analysis of Reciprocity in the Workplace
Background and research orientation, rationale and objectives. Gift giving or reciprocity is widely used in organisations as an attempt to further improve employee performance and productivity, which is ultimately believed to result in higher levels of organisational performance and success. …
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“Impact is our true North”: a relational approach to the global distribution of U.S. foundations’ philanthropic gifts
… decide to distribute their philanthropic gifts to internationally-oriented causes and nongovernmental organizations. Amid myriad pressing social, economic, and environmental challenges spanning the globe, there is increased demand for financial assistance from private sources, including …
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Spiritual Nurture in the Local Seventh-day Adventist Congregation Through the Spiritual Gifts of Prophecy and Shepherding
… church as a nurturing entity, and the spiritual gifts that enable the church to develop a ministry of spiritual nurture.</p> <p>Method. This study followed the documentary methodology. The Scripture data, in both Old and New Testaments, regarding the purpose of the church and the gifts of …
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