ABSTRACT
It is naive to suggest that there was little change in the Christian church in the first thousand years. Yet compared with the diversity we see today, the first millennium ended with a remarkably unified entity. At no other time in the history of the Church has the term catholic (meaning universal) been more aptly used. The persecutions, debates, and power struggles had not managed to destroy the unity that was so powerful and attractive to men like Constantine. This was all about to change forever.
