Lee H.O. Critical Thinking or Just Critical?: Reintroducing Humility to the Literature Classroom

Christian Scholar’s Review, July 15, 2010, 421-437.The pre-eminence of the 'hermeneutic of suspicion' means that interpretive approaches tend to treat texts as hostile witnesses and interrogate them with a negative bias, this article claims. However, another approach, centered on humility in the receiver/interpreter, would have open-ended questions and more balance in handling texts. Humility is seen as much more appropriate to any human task, such as interpretation.