Truth Defined!

Mr. White,
You raise an intruiging question, and one that Modernity has circumlocuted at great expense, (after the even greater expense of the Wars of Religion). Provided yourself and Pauper Frater promise not to burn my peasants and slaughter my villages, so that I am forced to emigrate to the New World, I will tell you that I do not think the Filioque is necessary for Christian orthodoxy. The scriptural case for the proposed revision pointed to by Pauper Frater is much stronger than that for Filioque itself, which depends on a logical extension of the economic (or historical or missional) relationship between the members of the Trinity into the eternal (or ontological) relationship. The Orthodox have been sounding this note since Chalcedon, and it is high time that we recognized that it is a dashed good point. The scripture says "though," who are we to add that it is also "from?"
Augustine, on the other hand, was not ourselves, but AUGUSTINE when he decided that it was also "from," and thus our difficulty.

But let us proceed to the main event: I cannot and will not turn on my Protestant loyalties and embrace all seven ecumenical councils, principally because, as you all well know, Mary as "Theotokos" (Mother of God) takes a dangerously speculative step with regard to Christology. (I might add, however, against the austere tastes of the Reformed, that I have no particular problem with Iconography in houses of worship.)

Finally, I feel I must say that the Foundational Truths to which you refer are, in great measure, philosophical ones which the ancient world held unquestioned, and which, in our own time, make the subject of truth a difficult one. As an example, several of the truths which stand, as it were, behind the 3 Creeds are:

The Unity of Reality, The Existence of the Spiritual World, the Knowability of Reality, and, further on, the Reliability of Scripture- (whatever, ecumenically speaking, that is).
I might ask, as a subset of your own question, whether we all agree on these pre-doctrinal theses?

dogmatically,
Sir R.F. Burton