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“Imperfection,” a.k.a. “Perpetual Progress”?
By
Kristina Robb-Dover
Epektasis: it may sound like a venereal disease, but it is actually Latin for “perpetual progress;” and it has been around since the fourth century whenGregory of Nyssa coined the term as a way to explain his understanding of true perfection in the spiritual life. True perfection, for Gregory, consisted not in reaching some elusive, Platonic…
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