THE DISCLOSURE AND ONGOING UNFOLDING OF UNIQUENESS AS A FOUNDATIONAL ELEMENT OF CONSONANT HUMAN FORMATION (GUIDANCE, TRANSCENDENCE, IDENTITY, SPIRITUALITY).

摘要

This study investigates the disclosure and ongoing unfolding of uniqueness as essential to the process of consonant human formation. Commencing with an actual event in the author's life that exemplifies this process, the study proceeds by articulating foundational statements about human formation.;At each step of the research, constructs from the Science of Foundational Human Formation which are used to articulate fondational statements and proximate elements of formation, are dialogued with insights from various auxiliary sciences such as philosophy, psychology, sociology, pedagogy, anthropology, philosophy of religion, theology, scripture, Church history, and Church teachings. In addition, examples from prose, poetry, African oral and symbolic traditions, the writings of various spiritual masters, as well as the author's personal reflections and experiences, have been integrated at appropriate intervals throughout the text.;The obstacles and facilitating conditions for this process are summarized at the end of each chapter in Divisions One to Four.;Division Five consists of the major conclusions of the research, along with their related minor conclusions. Here also the dissertation is subjected to affirmative-denial testing to determine its foundational validity; obstacles and facilitating conditions are summarized and applied to the formation of all human beings, religious people, Christians, and African priests.;These statements apply to all human beings--Division One; to people who live in a relationship to a Transcendent Being--Division Two; to people who are Christians--Division Three; and to people who are African Roman Catholic priests--Division Four.;The dissertation closes with a summary of the contributions made by this study to the Science of Foundational Human Formation.