What most evangelicals tend conveniently to ignore is that it was tradition in this sense that was responsible, under the guidance of the Spirit, for the canonization of the tradition in its first sense. It should also be noted that in the early going this “body of understanding,” although authoritative, was not official and was itself in process of formulation. Such matters as canon, Trinity, church order, and infant baptism belong to tradition in this sense, where the seeds of understanding lie