Call it whatever you want. Your symantic “unity of doctrine” is a dogmatic object of worship not unlike the other Created Things worshiped and served per Romans chapter 1.
For years, LCMS' hierarchical self-worshiping semantacists have been about as relevant as teats on a bull to the congregations they've left swinging in the "autonomous" breeze - where the actual WORK of the called is performed.
Faith isn't rendered by "unity of doctrine" -- it's rendered in the individual hearts and minds of the priesthood of all believers by the Holy Spirit - through HIS Word.
>>If so, how did you miss the useless apology?
Easy to miss because it wasn’t, and has never been, in the curriculum, super genius.
It never once came up in the class rooms, or the dorm rooms, or the locker rooms, or the bar rooms -- where enquiring minds explored and debated all subjects on campus.
And there's STILL no position paper explaining why the CPH edition of The Jews and Their Lies is, for all practical appearances, a white wash.
Meanwhile - the LCMS' Icon for their "more catholic than Catholic" reformation is still...
