Gregory the Great : perfection in imperfection - Straw, Carole Ellen (Berkeley : University of California Press, 1988)
Microcosm and mediator -- A sacramental vision -- The saint and the social meaning of stability -- Soliditas caritatis -- Lubrica mutabilitas -- The logic of asceticism -- The mediator of God and man -- The God-Man and the new dispensation -- The sacrifice of a contrite heart -- Reform and the preacher -- The just penitent -- Constantia mentis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-266) and index.
Keywords: Gregory -- I, -- Pope, -- approximately 540-604.; Popes -- Biography; Biography