ABSTRACT
Methodological Agnosticism are considered to be agnostic—a term coined by the writer Thomas Huxley in the late 1860s, as an Anglicized version of the ancient Greek agnostos, naming one who claims to possess no privileged knowledge on a given topic. However, the people say “in theory” because, despite appeals to the contrary, some have argued that the field of religious studies is still very much interested in the articulation of broad truth claims, in ascer taining the nature and validity of religious experience, and then trying to determine the relationship between religion and a higher or deeper reality. As the majority decision famously put it: it might well be said that one’s education is not complete without a study of comparative religion or the history of religion and its relationship to the advancement of civilization. The desire to take metaphysics out of the equation was certainly challenged.
