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A Central Theme to “Scriptural Spirituality” 41 found in Jer 22:16. The two Testaments are thus tied together in different ways: not only by the linked concepts of justice and love, but also by liberation as a theme running through and, by implication, unifying the Hebrew and Greek sections of the Bible. 61 The only reason one can construe from Biblical Spirituality the sense that the New Testament is given priority over the Old, is Nolan’s statement that God’s “revelation of new things ended with Jesus and the last book of the Bible.” 62 Elsewhere, though, he writes more clearly on this matter: that we must understand the Old Testament and the God of the Old Testament patriarchs the way Jesus understood them. 63 It seems that, for Nolan, Jesus, as laid bare historically-critically, is the key. Whatever queries one might have about this way of relating the two Testaments, 64 for Nolan justice is the foundation to the Old Testament, and love to the New. “Biblical spirituality is Kingdom spirituality”; 65 and specifying both parts of that sentence: “The message of the gospel is the message of freedom.” 66 61 Most explicitly in Nolan, Biblical Spirituality, 53–54 and Nolan, “The Theology of Liberation and the Bible,” 36–38; most extensively in Nolan, God in South Africa, 106–33; cf. Nolan, “The Theology of Liberation and the Bible,” 30. 62 Nolan, Biblical Spirituality, 22. 63 See Nolan, Jesus before Christianity, 137; Jesus before Christianity 2 , 10–19. 64 See the argument followed in footnote 53. More importantly here, though, one might critique Nolan’s optimism at being able to find (the real thoughts of) the real Jesus behind the New Testament texts. The different waves of research into the historical Jesus have borne many results, but none definitive. All researchers tend to find their own Jesus (by now a well-known point)—an insight that has important implications not only for the philosophy of science, but also for thinkers on spirituality: see the fourth section of this essay titled “Context, individuality and extrapolation.” (To be clear: my problem is not with the historical-critical methodology; that I find positive. My problem is with the too optimistic outlook that often accompanies such research.) 65 Nolan, Biblical Spirituality, 57. 66 Ibid., 58.
42 The Old Testament and Christian Spirituality Nolan’s concern for the political scene in pre-1994 apartheid South Africa and his interpretation of the Bible echo each other precisely. Justice and love are neither socio-political concerns alone nor a biblical affair alone. These two are linked together inextricably in the way Nolan reads the Bible and lives his life. 2.4 Snyman: Living before God Snyman regards coram Deo as the expression that would come closest to formulating what the Old Testament—his particular focus—would understand as spirituality. 67 He employs the tripartite division of the Old Testament into Torah, Prophets and Writings in order to present brief samples relevant to explaining what spirituality in the Old Testament is. 68 Spirituality starts, for Snyman, with God, 69 and with God crafting a relationship with people, beginning with the revelation of his Name (Exod 3:14–25).� hy
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