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12 Cards in this Set
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what 2 things help compassion grow?
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exposure: see poor and their lives
information: numbers and statistics |
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How does Christian faith help us develop our compassion?
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we see compassion as a virtue, faith enables us to greater compassion
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what 2 actions does compassion lead to?
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1. relief work: distributing food, clothes, etc
2. simplification of our lifestlye |
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what does he mean by structural change?
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problem is not an accident, its a result of political and economic structures/policies, need to change the sturcture to fix the problem
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is anger always a bad feeling?
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no, anger is other side of compassion. cant be one with out the other. be angry not hateful, more anger, the closer we are to God
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Difference b/t relief work and structural change?
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relief work - deal w/ symptoms
structural: preventative work |
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before humility what attitude do we tend to have?
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that the poor must and will save themselves, they dont really need me
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what spiritual crisis or conversion happens during this stage?
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realizing the poor know more/can do better. the poor are gods chosen intruments, not me
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what does he mean by romanticism
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that we can put the poor on a pedistal, we have to listen, they are alwasy right
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what crisis comes from romaticism?
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the poor dont live up to our heroic image we imagined
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what does solidarity to the poor mean?
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after crisis, we are no longer us and them, but we are one. Acknowledging we all have faults and weaknesses but we aer all on the same side of opression
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how many stages
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4
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