A SAVIOR WITHOUT THE SUPERNATURAL?
As a minister and student (back to school working on my MA in Religious Studies), I've found a disturbing trend that goes back almost 60 years. Liberal scholarship now influences (dominates) all Catholic and mainline Protestant universities and has taken foothold in some evangelical institutions as well. With this liberal worldview, scholars search for the "real" Jesus of the Bible, often called the quest for the "historical Jesus." This view eventually strips Jesus and the Bible of the supernatural, and leaves the reader with a Gospel full of holes. No virgin birth, no miracles, no resurrection, and His return is debatable. So here is the question: CAN JESUS BE A "SAVIOR" WITHOUT OPERATING IN THE SUPERNATURAL? Why ask this question? As Francis Schaeffer has written, Liberal Theology begins with the intelligentsia, is taught in academia, delivered in the pulpit, and ends up in the pew (the church body as a whole). I've seen the effects; Christians with a weak faith, if they even have a "real" faith at all.
For example, some deny the Virgin birth and its historical accuracy. If the New Testament authors are being accused of exaggerations or outright fabrications, we have a huge problem; the integrity of the Bible and its propositions are in jeopardy. Luke goes out of his way to make sure what he wrote was accurate and trustworthy, "Inasmuch as many have undertaken to compile an account of the things accomplished among us, just as they were handed down to us by those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and servants of the word, it seemed fitting for me as well, having investigated everything carefully from the beginning, to write it out for you in consecutive order, most excellent Theophilus; so that you may know the exact truth about the things you have been taught. -Luke 1:1-4.
Now enter the Liberal Scholar who says that not only is it impossible for God to use a literal virgin in the birth of the Incarnation, but most or all of the other miraculous stories are "impossible" as well. But what does Jesus say about the miracles? "When the men came to Him, they said, "John the Baptist has sent us to You, to ask, 'Are You the Expected One, or do we look for someone else?'" At that very time He cured many people of diseases and afflictions and evil spirits; and He gave sight to many who were blind. And He answered and said to them, "Go and report to John what you have seen and heard: the BLIND RECEIVE SIGHT, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, the POOR HAVE THE GOSPEL PREACHED TO THEM. Blessed is he who does not take offense at Me." -Luke 7:20-23.

Again the liberal fires back denying the authenticity of Jesus' statement, the authorship of the Gospel itself, and the date of its composition (which involves the denial of prophecy). Which brings us back to the topic. If a hole can be blown in our most basic theological doctrines, then the whole of scripture is subject to ridicule and denial. I'm sure the battle has only begun!