It approaches the text as a specimen to be studied. 

Step-by-step explanation

Well, old is considered gold, this is not the essence for most modernist. The view of scripture is difference because they considered the scripture to have been written in old times. Since the world has evolved since then, to the modernist they consider the scripture as a specimen to be studied. This is because modernity calls for the freedom of conscience which allows the reinterpretation of the traditional teaching or teachings of the Bible in philosophical, historical and even theological theories. Thus, their attitudes towards Scriptures as theological source are tied upon approaching the text as a specimen to be studied.