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n296ww74p7t	Jordan Joseph Wales	Sacrifice in the Theology of Gregory the Great	2014		.txt	text/plain	188	6	33	In the long-running late antique debate on the nature of Christian perfection, Gregory's sacrificial theology of human life with God makes a speculative contribution: a new theory of perfect love that makes possible an aspiration to contemplative perfection even in worldly life. His teaching on sacrifice accomplishes a theological re-negotiation of the clashing traditions of Augustine and Cassian, opening a broad horizon of new cultural possibilities by elaborating a theory of spiritual perfection capacious enough to embrace the secular.	cache/n296ww74p7t.txt	txt/n296ww74p7t.txt