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Melanchthon exchanged letters with Patriarch Jeremiah. They did not agree on justification by faith alone. This will be a major problem for protestant reformers. Are you suggesting an autocephalous church for each German prince? Theologically it does not work for the Magisterial Reformation...

This should probably be Holy Apostles instead of Holy Wisdom.

Some flavors have been, and there is no reason it could not be again.

Careful. 'Person' has a special meaning in Trinitarian discussions. The three are one essence, not one person. Traditional Christian prayers are often addressed to individual persons of the Trinity, but I think that they (or at least their theologians) would agree that praying to one person...

Julian is not in the same class as Ovid or Marcus Aurelius in either style or content.

I don't think this will work. The Protestant princes had political motivations. Religious freedom was one of them, but for some princes religion was just a cover for political control. Buying their support seems to be directly opposed to the idea of strengthening the central authority.

Have you read the Wikipedia article and its sources?

I think @John7755 يوحنا is referring to @Gukpard 's proposal that Matthew's Magi be identified with Zoroastrianism. If they were Zoroastrians, they were not Zoroastrians as we know them. Arguments that they were Zoroastrians requires speculation on the nature of (the precursors of)...

That's not unreasonable as long as we remember the the relationship between the historical Magi and pre-Sassanian Zoroastrianism is not entirely clear. The meaning of the gifts has been greatly debated by scholars, Christian and non-Christian alike. Much of the discussion (aside from the...

It should go without saying that views varied over time, geography, and personality, but I'll say it just the same. Most generally, Christian writers at this time tended to categorize religions/philosophies as either Christian, Jewish, and Gentile/Heathen. Christians could be further divided...

Then you don't really have Christianity. Might as well just invent something altogether new. Strip out the messianic teachings and you are left with something that isn't differentiated enough from existing threads of Judaism. It probably never grows past its Jewish roots and even there is...

Not necessarily. Holding them as a client state and restricting proselytizing should suffice. There is no guarantee that Turks make it that far west. Oh, those poor, sweet butterflies.

That really depends on if there is a Byzantine-Persian war in the early VII and how it plays out. The answer to both of those depends on the author.

Are you supposing that he fixes the problems that led to his deposition? Unless he gets the finances turned around and earns the respect of the army, a revolt is inevitable. If he does manage to accomplish this, he likely dies within a couple of years. After that, the empire collapses into...

It is at least as likely that in his death he is see as a inspiring martyr.

That's not the strongest source.

Things change. At the time of Bar Kokhba, the Temple was a recent memory. Some of the Jewish leaders would have had parents that worshipped in it. Roman Judea existed as a province and was largely Jewish. Jump ahead to Julian. The Temple has been gone for nearly 300 years --- about ten...

How do you plan on controlling their breeding?