Not yet another 'History of the Church' written from within the Christian mind-frame, this is deliberately provocative, no-holds-barred, open-forum discussion of one of the major Current Affairs of our time -- the 'Challenge of Change' in an age when 'the rate of change is accelerating'; and it also unravels the dramatic but little-known story of the rise, decline and future of the Christian Empire -- a story both fair and foul, and as full of courage and compromise, surprises and contradictions, plots and plans and counterplans as any best-selling spy story available today. Read on -- you shall be the Judge...