John, within the Reformed tradition, what would be a definition of spirituality and how would that be practised?
JD: We would tend to think of spirituality more in terms of relationship with God. The formal distinctives of Reformed spirituality would probably revolve around four things. Number one is Scripture the Reformation produced many commentary writings and there is a great emphasis on biblical preaching, biblical theology that comes directly from the centrality of Scripture and sense of being a people before God, listening to his Word. Secondly, the knowledge of God and the knowledge of ourselves. Calvin says that all true knowledge comes from the knowledge of God and the knowledge of ourselves. So, in one sense, there is no distinction between theology and science. The understanding of God, the understanding of the world in which we live are two sides of the one coin. Thirdly, another emphasis is Luther s classic doctrine of the priesthood of all believers. There are no distinctions between office holders, clergy, pastoral staff and ordinary members of the church. All christians are on th
