I've been told by an alum of one that no one in any of the mainline schools
> of theology really believes in God in any literal sense, and mostly take the
> bible and such to be metaphors.
>
We're getting dangerously close to dissertation territory here, but what on Earth does "literal" mean in this context?
And leaving that aside, I know faculty at both General and Union Theological Seminaries who would beg to differ.
-- "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað."