It is said that every human heart holds "a seed of desire and nostalgia for God," and that is the inspiration for creative intelligence, such as the arts, literature, and philosophy (Neuhaus). Eve

Alexander Maclaren's first act as president of the first Baptist World Congress was to ask all to stand and recite the Apostles' Creed so as to show "continuity with the historic church" (Hinson). This intrinsic catholicity of the fundamental ideas and principles impels those of Baptist faith to unity and universality wherever they have free play, and by doing so eliminate the cause of ecclesiastical strife and division, and lift to a place of power the forces that make for freedom for service, for unity and brotherhood (Hinson). At the center of the fundamental ideas and principles is the voluntary principle based on the lordship of Christ, and from it the autonomy of the local church, religious liberty and a free church in a free state (Hinson).

ry human desires to know the truth and to live the truth everyday (Neuhaus). Truth generally comes in the form of questions about the meaning of life, of suffering and of death, and the answers given to such questions determine whether one thinks universal and absolute truth is possible, for "every truth, if it really is truth, presents itself as universal, even if it is not the whole" (Neuhaus). Although there are obstacles to reaching the goal, one may define the human being "as the one who seeks the truth," because the search is so deeply rooted in human nature, that it is unthinkable that it is all in vain (Neuhaus). The very search implies the rudiments of a response, in everyday life, as in scientific method, the search is premised upon the intuition that there is an answer, and to deny the "thirst for truth is to imperil existence" (Neuhaus).

through the individual will, to corporatist, in which the

"To see you was I conceived, and I have yet to conceive that for which I was conceived," wrote Anselm. Given reason's capacity to exceed whatever it attains, it is not defeated by the inability to understand the object of its love, "thought has comprehended rationally that God is incomprehensible" (Neuhaus).

The classical answer to what is the human person, is found in the Orthodox theological tradition, "to be human is be become divine" (Hinlicky).

Baptists belong to the Free Church tradition, and as second-generation Protestants originating out of the separatist Puritan movement in England during the seventeenth century, they have drawn some of their ideas from the radical, especially Anabaptist, wing of the Protestant Reformation, central to which was the voluntary principle (Hinson). In England, Baptists were dissenters who opposed the efforts of the state and the church to mandate conformity to the Book of Common Prayer (Hinson). Baptists have applied the voluntary principle to their own corporate life, energetic promotion of religious liberty and, in most countries, preference for the separation of church and state as a means for safeguarding religious liberty (Hinson). Glenn Hinson writes:

just as Roman Catholics have stood near the corporatist

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