Are there any actual liberals here?

PloverWing said:

I'm maybe...moderately liberal, theologically. I generally accept modern science, and I accept higher criticism as one valid way to study the Bible. I think Schleiermacher made some excellent points, though I like Rudolf Otto's analysis better. Rauschenbusch changed the way I look at Christian ethics. On the other hand, I don't go as far in rejecting the supernatural as some liberal Christians do. I'm mostly good with the Nicene Creed.

That's liberal enough that I'm pretty comfortable in WWMC, but I can certainly think of theologians who are more liberal than I am.

I will say, though, that at an earlier point in my life, liberal Christianity saved me from atheism. When I could no longer be an Evangelical (by the American definition), liberal Christian theology was the safety net that caught my fall, that showed me a way to be Christian and still have intellectual integrity. I will forever owe a debt there.

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MaximumCrust said:

Is there actually anyone here who is liberal theologically and/or politically, or is this forum just conservatives arguing against liberalism?

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CaDan said:

You have to keep in mind that this subforum dates from the mid-aughts--the time of High Bushism in the United States. Evangelicalism and the reaction to evangelicalism were both at their peak. CF at that time was a more open yet more contentious place. "Liberal" and "Fundy" were routinely used as an insult.

The world has changed a lot in the interceding twenty years. But this subforum drifts along, a relic and remnant of an older and different time.

Evangelicalism as a political force has ebbed.

The Emergent Church is a forgotten anomaly.

Real Live Preacher retired his blog.

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