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The Middle Ages were dubbed the ‘Dark Ages’ almost before they had begun to draw to a close. Ever since then, they have continued to be seen as a time of hardship and oppression, full of popes and crusades. In the second volume of 2,000 Years of Christ’s Power, another side of the Middle Ages shines through though: The continual workings of Christ as He built His kingdom through figures such as...

divided by both politics and religion: the Byzantine Emperor and the patriarch of Constantinople faced the Holy Roman Emperor and the pope of Rome. Henceforward the Christian world was in effect two worlds, divided by culture, government, and religious issues. Here were the fateful seeds which finally bore fruit in the great East-West schism of 1054.5 These deep historical changes, then, were landmarks which ushered Christianity out of the early Church period into a new era—the Middle Ages (the
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