*Sense experiences/depth experiences: not limited by the empirical data-the really "real" is not necessarily able 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 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 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 Theology/Fundamental Theology: Explains what theology is all about.
*Theology: "Faith seeking understanding" ? we need faith 1st before understanding can be reached.
*Determining the "cannon" (cannon of scripture): list of writings that adequately express the faith of the community.
*Apacal Writings: didn't make it onto the list (cannon) because they didn't 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 person of faith
*Also sees faith as the goal of theology
*We have to have ...