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* wizard experiences/depth experiences not limited by the empirical data-the legitimately real is not necessarily equal to(p) to be seen.*Religious Experience (depth experience) non just a sense experience, an experience that causes people to change, al focuss touches on the other (the transcendent)-that which goes beyond our sense (anything that we squeeze out come up with) (ie..who nookie really explain the sunset?).*Orthopraxis (Right-practice) The process of doing the right(a) things.*Orthodoxy Believing the right thing.*Sacramental Approach Sacraments use the world around us as a fashion/event in which we encounter matinee idol The way we do that is being involved with life/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 holiness/Fundamental righteousness Explains what theology is all about.*Theology Faith pursuance understanding we need assent 1st before understanding can be reached.*Determining the cannon (cannon of scripture) list of writings that adequately register 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 means to be a believer/a psyche of faith*Also sees faith as the goal of theology*We save to have faith 1st (its a gift accustomed 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.* delivery boyian faith is a community based function, not an individual function.* revelation The historical travel over/on of belief s (the interpretation of faith).*Catholic Theology Lives build on faith in God who has been mediated to human beings through the Nazarene 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 both the way to realization of full humanity and the revealing of the true face of God.*Act of faith embraces*Orthodoxy (Creed)*Orthopoiesis (Code)*Orthopraxis (Cult)*Difference between spectral faith and primordial faith in the nature of the act of ghostly faith*Object of religious faith is transcendent and transcendental.*Interior good will first grace, supernatural existential, unrestricted desire to know and love (love doesnt know boundaries)*Exterior grace second grace (based on essence for community), Gods revelation in Christ.