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*Sense experiences/depth experiences non limited by the empirical data-the really real is not necessarily able to be seen.*Religious exist (depth experience) Not just a sense experience, an experience that ca affairs people to change, al commissions touches on the other (the transcendent)-that which goes beyond our understanding (anything that we can come up with) (ie..who can really explain the sunset?).*Orthopraxis (Right-practice) The process of doing the right things.*Orthodoxy Believing the right thing.*Sacramental Approach Sacraments use the world around us as a way/event in which we encounter God The way we do that is being involved with disembodied spirit/experiences in this world-that we are able to reach God in the afterlife (ex eating is a way of being joined w/ God).*The things of this world matter-it becomes the way we reach God on the road to reaching eternal happiness (meeting God).*Foundation theology/Fundamental Theology Explains what theology is all about.*The ology confidence seeking understanding we need doctrine initiative before understanding can be reached.*Determining the cannon (cannon of scripture) list of writings that adequately declaim the faith of the community.*Apacal Writings didnt make it onto the list (cannon) because they didnt adequately express what the community expressed as far as their understanding of faith.C.Rahner Sees theology as the science/study of faith (it has excepted way of doing things).*Theology has a special subject matter the act & content of faith*Act what it room to be a believer/a person of faith*Also sees faith as the goal of theology*We have to have faith 1st (its a gift given to us by God)*Theology doesnt assume faith, it produces it. Theology is a practical science, it impels us to put what we pick out into action-practice what you preach.*delivererian faith is a community based function, not an individual function.*Revelation The historical passing over/on of beliefs (the interpretation o f faith).*Catholic Theology Lives build on faith in God who has been mediated to human beings through Jesus Christ.*Formative Factors in Theology (Macquarrie) where we get our theology from 1. Experience2. Revelation God making himself ... ...esus as the definitive divine revelation of God in the world.*Christ accepted as the center of the universe and the hope of humanity.*Christ as both the way to realization of full humanity and the disclosure of the true face of God.*Act of faith embraces*Orthodoxy (Creed)*Orthopoiesis (Code)*Orthopraxis (Cult)*Difference between religious faith and primordial faith in the nature of the act of religious faith*Object of religious faith is transcendent and transcendental.*Interior grace first grace, witching(prenominal) existential, unrestricted desire to know and love (love doesnt know boundaries)*Exterior grace second grace (based on message for community), Gods revelation in Christ.