the issues that can be discussed and setting the limits of the “imaginative” horizons of what the text will be permitted to say.57 Moreover, we evangelical Protestants have become isolationist in our reading, largely unaware of the pre-Reformation or extra-Reformation heritage of the Christian faith. Sola Scriptura has evolved into a Protestant isolationism that views pre-Reformation theology as unworthy and the classics of the Western tradition as unnecessary. Large communities of Protestant conservatives