Date of Award
7-1978
Degree Type
Master's Essay - Restricted
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
Theology
Abstract
Man and the culture of which he is a member have a consciousness of the future that expresses itself through its dominant symbols and myths. These •in turn hold the key to "what is hidden in the laps of the gods." Future consciousness is grounded in the fundamental experience of man in history. Man, says Karl Rahner, is a being involved in history: he cannot understand himself at any given moment without looking back toward a genuinely temporal past and without looking forward to a genuinely temporal future. His self-understanding embraces the beginning and end of his own individual history and of the history of the human community.
Recommended Citation
Sahatini, David B., "The Christian Concept of the Future and Salvation in Time in African Traditional Religion" (1978). Master's Essays (1922 - ). 2963.
https://epublications.marquette.edu/essays/2963
Comments
An Essay submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School, Marquette University, in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in Theology, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.