Wednesday, September 18, 2019
Catholic Theology Essay Highlights -- essays research papers
*Sense experiences/depth experiences: not limited by the empirical data-the really â€Å"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 â€Å"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: â€Å"Faith seeking understanding†– we need faith 1st before understanding can be reached. *Determining the â€Å"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 faith 1st (it’s a gift given to us by God) *Theology doesn’t 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). *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. Experience 2. 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 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 desire to know           and love (love doesn’t know boundaries)      *Exterior grace: second grace (based on message for community), God’s                revelation in Christ.     Â
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