christianity

This is exactly as I propose above. This idea comes from when I look at places such as Ethiopia, Syria, or Armenia, who had polities or populations that adopted christianity and made it a part of their culture as opposed to having a colonial power impose its culturally informed faith upon them...

There's a lot of dispute about what happened to St. Paul after his "Damascus Road" experience. According to the Lukan account in Acts, he went to Jerusalem shortly after recovering his sight; however, St. Paul himself only speaks of his conversion once: in second Corinthians, and then he refers...

So I've been thinking lately again about the troubles of the Roman Empire in the early 5th Century, and if and how the Western part of the Empire could have been avoided. I'm looking to do this with no PoDs prior to the death of Theodosius in January 395. And what I'm specifically looking for is...

What if Huldrych Zwingli isn't killed at the Battle of Kappel in October 1531? Say he dies 1546 or after. How is the Protestant Reformation affected? For example, is this likely to curb John Calvin's career? What about England, or the Huguenots? And how is history thus changed?

This event, from 403 CE. Specifically, what if John Chrysostom remained Patriarch of Constantinople until a later death (sometime 415-420), while Theophilus is removed from his post as Bishop (or "Pope") of Alexandria, which also prevents his nephew Cyril from succeeding him. How does this...

My apologies if I'm treading a path already trod: Who would've been the earliest Roman Emperor to embrace Christianity as a religion. He doesn't need to convert (after all, Constantine technically only became a Christian on his death-bed baptism), and AFAIK, Commodus and Alexander Severus were...

How do you think could we get Western Christianity (e.g. Catholicism or something equivalent in this timeline) to have a separate category of priests similar to the Shadow Priests of the Warcraft universe? There would be two kinds of priests: Light Priests or simply called Priests who are...

Okay, I was thinking about this because of the ASB thread that supposes a majority Christian Japan after WWII. What if the Japanese Emperor converted to Christianity? I have three main scenarios: 1. During the Sengoku Jidai, the emperor converts to Catholicism. Perhaps a Catholic daimyo forces...

With a POD after the death of Christ, make the cannon of the Bible to include as many works as possible. My thought is to have it determined that the Holy Spirit inspires the text as you read it, thus what may seem like heresies might just not be inspired portions. Thus, you can throw in the...

I was thinking about this earlier but how could a Christian State arise similar to the idea of a Caliphate in Islam? A united Christian nation, Christendom, if you will. I was thinking if the Papal States tried to rule more directly instead of indirectly you could at least have a Catholic...

Suppose that by the early 1980s, a majority of white conservatives (Anglo-Saxons, Scots-Irish and other ethnic Western Europeans) are a combination of Heathenist, Celtic Reconstructionist Pagan, and folk Christian (that is, Christian with stronger "folkish" neopagan elements). This would be in...