Islander,
I actually once took a class in Systematic Theology in AOG college (PC's church), other then the humorous need for the lecturer to defend the need for Systematic Theology from a small section of the class. (I'm mean I had no objectons to their views but why enrol for a course if your utterly convinced that the subject shouldn't be studied).
The other realy striking issue was just how many people had wrong ideas about the trinity. At the start of section he let the students express their views and then picked out which heresies their views included. nearly everyone fell into or got close to one error or another.
So I'd agree that the vast majority of Christians that sit in the pews have a clear idea of the trinity. (Incidently I actually got the top mark for the essays on the trinity, I argued that the church had spent 2000 years basically declaring any substantive attempt to clarify the doctrine as a heresy.)
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