SMC103Y1 Lecture Notes - Francis De Sales, Francis Xavier, Pope Francis
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Being faced refers to interruption or summons by another person"s face (weak and needs help) The outsider allows us to see the injustice (drawback of living in the center of the world) Difficult to see our own culture because we are immersed in it. By living in an imperial empire you become an imperial self (source of problems and solutions) Begin to lose what it meant to be an empire as it declined christians began to lose face of what it was to be. Views of why decline: manichean dualism: defn"ing the empire by saying whats bad and good, eusebian ethusiaism: empire is good and sign of gg.