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*Sense experiences/depth experiences not limited by the empirical data-the really real is not necessarily commensurate to be seen.*Religious Experience (depth experience) Not just a sense experience, an experience that causes people to change, always touches on the other (the transcendent)-that which goes beyond our misgiving (anything that we gouge 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 most us as a way/event in which we encounter beau ideal The way we do that is being involved with life/experiences in this world-that we argon able to reach paragon 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.*Theolo gy Faith seeking understanding we need creed 1st before understanding can be reached.*Determining the cannon (cannon of scripture) list of writings that adequately express the assurance of the community.*Apacal literary works 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 erudition/study of faith (it has excepted way of doing things).*Theology has a special subject matter the act & content of faith*Act what it means 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 know into action-practice what you preach.*Christian faith is a community based function, not an individual function.*Revelation The historical passing over/on of beliefs (the interpretation of faith).*Cath olic 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 revelation of God in the world.*Christ accepted as the center of the universe and the hope of humanity.*Christ as two 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, supernatural existential, unrestricted craving to know and love (love doesnt know boundaries)*Exterior grace second grace (based on message for community), Gods revelation in Christ.