more news in ecumenism: ELCA and Orthodox agree on some things about the Trinity

We've already bowled over the Episcopalians on this matter, now it seems that we have bowled over the ELCA: they admit that the filioque was a local addition to the creed and not a part of the ecumenically-binding catholic tradition and that the "permanently normative and universally binding form of the Nicene Creed is the Greek text of A.D. 381". Practical effects: little to none, except that now there'll be a footnote in their liturgical books pointing out that it's really optional. Moral victory: still very far off, we've only got the most liberal of American Lutherans to admit that we may have a point about the history of the filioque and aren't heretics. Not very impressive, since some of the teachers at the ELCA seminary two blocks away from where I sit probably have grave reservations about calling God "Father" or "Son".