They're not MY leading theologians and I don't give a rip what someone with a theology degree has to say anyway. I'm sure you've heard the term, *college educated idiots*.
It doesn't mean they have the leading of the Holy Spirit in enlightening them to spiritual truth.
And if they converted to Catholicism, they're not MY theologians anyway. They're yours.
Not to mention that Lutheran or Episcopalian theologians don't speak for all of non-Catholic Christianity.
No one is saying that the “the leading of the Holy Spirit is absurd.” Rather, because of the diverse and often contradictory beliefs of Protestants and Episcopalians, each cannot claim to be guided by the Holy Spirit. That would make the Holy Spirit a contradiction unto itself.
Throughout its history the Catholic church has contradicted itself, therefore it's not being led by the Holy Spirit either.
Natural response from shallow Bible Christians, its like the three proverbial monkeys who would neither hear, see, or speak the truth. So all theologians are “college idiots” (wow!) including the the early Church fathers who assembled the books in the Bible.
There perhaps is a warning in the shallow end of the theological pool. Don’t go beyond this point.