…hermeneutics nourishes respect as respect for the otherness of the Other…[citing Gadamer:] ‘It is the Other who breaks into my ego-centredness and gives me something to understand.’…interpreters conditioned by their own embeddeness in specific times, cultures, and theological or secular traditions need to listen, rather than seeking to ‘master’ the Other by netting it within their own prior system of concepts and categories. This premature assimilation of the Other into one’s own prior grooves of habituated thought constitutes the ‘control’ and advance commandeering that Gadamer calls ‘Method.’

- Anthony Thiselton, Promise, 133-34.