In each case the Scriptures would be the main, if not exclusive, basis for investigation. On the widest scale, every life of Christ is, in its way, a manual of biblical spirituality. Even when an author tries to limit himself to the external facts related in the Gospels, inevitably the spiritual dimension of Christ s personality shines through. It is impossible to talk or write about the Savior without revealing something of the Spirit with whom, as God, He had the same divine nature and, by whom, as man, He was filled to the depths of His humanity. In the present study, spirituality of Sacred Scripture is the science and art of the spiritual life as revealed in Sacred Scripture, interpreted by the Church, and lived out by the saintly followers of Christ from apostolic times to the present day.
Biblical spirituality is, therefore, first of all a science.
It is a science of faith because it accepts Sacred Scripture and Sacred Tradition as the sources of divine revelation. We believe on faith what God has revealed. But we also accept the Church s teaching on the meaning of divine revelation and on how this revealed wisdom is to be put into practice. Moreover, as a science, biblical spirituality forms an organized body of knowledge that has been developed over the centuries. Building on the deposit of faith, it seeks by human reason to show how the spiritual life is not only consistent with sound philosophy, but raises man s nature to heights of sublimity that would be impossible apart from Christianity.