I'm looking for the noun that best points to the (religious) person who is a confirmed believer, but who nevertheless has grown to disbelieve the official teachings/dogma. To try to make it a bit clearer, I could imagine a Christian who firmly holds on to the membership of the church and who believes in the Lord Jesus Christ, but who can accept as fact neither the story about the birth of Jesus nor His Resurrection. Is there such a word? (I don't expect one could use the word 'disbeliever', though this comes pretty close in meaning to the signification I have in mind.)
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