Dr. Cone says, “Black consciousness is the key to the black man’s emancipation from his distorted self-image.”6 But, surely back of black consciousness is human consciousness. How can man know who he is, and what he is if he starts with the idea that he is unknowable non-being to unknowable being. Why does Cone not follow the Reformers, and especially Calvin, when he says that man knows himself only if, in the act of knowing himself, he, at the same time, knows his Creator-Redeemer God in the Christ