bible

As a non-religious Christian, I find it awesome to speculate the possibilities of an alternate Church from the one we know today. Obviously, the formation of the canon of the Bible is a very important part of Church history, but what if the canon we know today was so very different (larger or...

The cure for scurvy was discovered, lost, and rediscovered many times throughout history--from Ancient Egypt in 1550 BC, to Phoenician traders, to Crusaders, to the Portuguese, to the British Empire (who actually forgot the cure to scurvy, during the golden age of the Royal Navy), to the final...

Let's say that some time in the mid-to-late 14th century, the Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri is accepted by the Church to be the last book of the New Testament after the Book of Revelation. Dante himself isn't considered a prophet, but he is considered to be divinely inspired to collect and...