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Questioning Believer

I just took a quiz on Beliefnet - " What's Your Spirituality Type ?"  I thought I'd check it out since I'm interested in liturgical spirituality, and currently doing some readings on the tension between contemplation and action.  The idea that there might be different "spiritual types" is not new.  Assuming one's spirituality is a mode of integrating one's relationship with God or the transcendent with the with the world and one's own life, it would make sense that some do it differently.  It's even possible there might be spiritual archetypes, just as a Jungian approach to personality could posit types and archetypes.  There are even inventories on spiritual gifts that suggest correspondance to a person's personality typology.  So what is my spirituality type? Actually this Beliefnet survey does not address these issues at all. It merely assumes a single hierarchy, not multiple archetypes, of "spiritual"assent to given rel