Spiritual Intelligence

First published in 2000. This is Volume 10 No 1 of the International Journal for the Psychology of Religion. One of the most important concepts in the history of psychology is intelligence. Traditionally intelligence has been thought of as a more or less unitary mental capacity connoting a general problem-solving ability and skill at abstract reasoning. More recently a major counter-argument to the idea that intelligence is unitary was published by Howard Gardner (1993) In his view intelligence is not a unitary construct but instead is multidimensional comprised of linguistic musical logical-mathematical spatial bodily-kinesthetic interpersonal and intrapersonal facets. Since then a dialogue has continued about what does and does not constitute an intelligence. This journal is a collection of essays that discuss this question.