Reading scripture openly requires suppressing traditional presuppositions.

Evidence

In more recent years, however, we have come to regard the first part as the larger challenge: to receive the Word with an open mind—blindfolding our prejudices and presuppositions and letting the text speak for itself, unbridled by our traditional presumptions. — Chuck Missler, The Kingdom, Power and Glory, 85

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the hermeneutic discipline of bracketing assumptions (Husserl/eschatology of reading) and ‘the text’ speaking for itself that also appears in literary close-reading method. — connects to: Sacred texts must be studied by stripping away later interpretive layers — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 396; Christian polemicists read the Qur’an against its own interpretive tradition — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 324; Christian polemists preferred their own readings over traditional Islamic interpretation

Broader Connections

• Sacred texts must be studied by stripping away later interpretive layers #corroborates (0.85) — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 396
• Christian polemicists read the Qur’an against its own interpretive tradition #exemplifies (0.80) — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 324
• Christian polemists preferred their own readings over traditional Islamic interpretation #corroborates (0.80)