TY - BOOK AU - Needham,Nicholas R. TI - 2000 years of Christ's power SN - 0946462490(pbk.) AV - BR305 .N37 2004 U1 - 270 NEE 21 PY - 2011///,2000 and 2004 CY - London, Darlington (England) PB - Grace Publications Trust, Distributed by Evangelical Press KW - Reformation KW - Renaissance N1 - Includes bibliographical references and indexes; Part 1: The Age of the Early Church Fathers: The historical background: Rome and Israel -- The Jesus movement-- The apostolic fathers, persecution and apologetics -- Gnostics, Catholics and Montanists -- African Christianity: Alexandria and Carthage -- From persecution to toleation -- Christianity, paganism and society in the 4th Century -- The Arian controversy -- John Chrystostom, Jerome and Augustine of Hippo -- Christological controversies: From Apollinarius to the Concil of Chalcedon -- The fall of Rome and the new Germanic Kingdoms in the West -- The East divided: From the Monopysites to Maximus the Confessor; Part 2: The Middle Ages: Islam and the Church -- Charlemagne and the Holy Roman Empire -- The Byzantine Empire: From Leo the Isaurian to the East-West Schism -- The Cluniac Revival, Hildebrand and the Investiture Controversy -- The Crusades -- Holy Russia: Orthodoxy among the Slavs -- The Universities and the rise of Scholasticism -- The age of the Innocent III -- The Byzantine Empire: From the Crusades to the fall of Constantinople -- The Catholic Church in crisis: From the Avignonese captivity to the Hussites; Part 3: Renaissance and Reformation: Songs of Spring: The Renaissance -- Maturing Sun: Martin Luther and the birth of the Protestant Reformation -- Warm days: Renewing the Church, 1521-31 -- Ripeness to the core: John Calvin and the Reformed faith -- Flowers for the Bees: The radical reformation -- The Winnowing wind: Europe divided -- Sweet kernel: The English and Scottish Reformations -- Gathering Swallows: The Catholic Counter-Reformation -- Thou hast Thy music too: The Eastern Orthodox World ER -