Doug> Jim heartfield wrote:
>> This is the original home of agnosticism, and more than a few
>> CofE theologians will happily tell you that they do not believe
>> in God, other than as a metaphor for man's wonder.
Doug> A friend of mine who spent some time in an Episcopal
Doug> seminary said pretty much the same thing of the faculty
Doug> there, and at most other such places.
I am, by formal training anyway, a liberal Protestant theologian (of the United Methodist type), and I can confirm this general view. At any rate, it's fairly safe to assume that a liberal theologian's conception of God is a substantive revision of the classical conception of God, substantive enough that most 'ordinary' Christian believers classify us as agnostics at best, more typically, as atheists.
However, most liberal Protestant theologians do not, in my experience, self-identify as 'atheist' or 'agnostic'. The idea being that not assenting to the classic conception of God doesn't make one an atheist in any but the most vulgar way, i.e., only in the estimation of those who do assent to, and insist on, the classical conception.
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