And yet it is precisely this construction that the Confessing Church must destroy, for it veils the seriousness of the ecumenical problem and of the church itself in the broader sense. As true and biblical as the assertion may well be that truth exists only in unity,29 the assertion is equally true and biblical that unity is possible only in the truth.30 Where one church solely seeks unity with another, without consideration of or beyond the truth claim, truth itself is being denied and there the