christianity

Nestorian Christianity arrived to tibet as early as the 6th century, with Patriarch Timothy even considering to establish a Tibetan metropolitan. So, WI Christianity won over Buddhism for the hearts of the Tibetans? How will it affect the rest of Asia? Remember that Tibet influenced Mongolia...

Is it realistically possible for Christianity to become more mainstream and more common in North Africa and the Middle East again by the time of the modern era? What would have to happen for it to occur? Can a native Middle Eastern government pull it off on its own? Does this require European...

I have a challenge for you that may require a somewhat liberal approach to butterflies. The main focus in this one is Italy during the Migration Period but in a world where Christianity (and consequently Islam) never took hold. Let’s imagine that Christianity rises in the first-century as yet...

Otl, the Visogoths managed to repulse the Umaayads from Iberia, thus keeping it Christian. But what if they failed, and Iberia fell to invaders? Could a christian state emerge in the mountainous north, ala the Kingdom of Tangiers in northern Morocco? What would the ramifications be? Ooc: the...

Instead of having a vision of God, Paul has a seizure on the road and dies. What are the long-term consequences? The most immediate consequence is that Paul never preaches across the Roman Empire and becomes an author of Christian New Testament (CNT) texts. So the seven Pauline epistles that...

There is a currently-active thread asking a similar question about Islam, but I felt as though the topic could be broadened. To quote my post from that thread... Now, in hindsight, perhaps Tengrism was not a great example in this context, but my other points still stand. How come some...

How do you think European culture would have turned out like if most countries would have been successfully converted to Islam in the 16th and 17th century, following a successful Ottoman occupation? Modern Turkey seems to be a curious mixture of German and Middle Eastern culture. Outside of...

The caliphates spread from arabia to Spain to Pakistan, and the islamic faithspread farther, into india, central asia, subsaharan africa, and indonesia, converting people from native pagan faiths, Hinduism, buddhism, zoroastrianism, and christianity. My question is, why? I know about the tax on...

So for those who don’t know, Christianity was a minor cult that existed in the Levant in the late [1st century] and early [2nd century] before eventually being incorporated into a Roman mystery religion that existed mainly in the Levant and along the southern coast of the Anatolian peninsula up...

I was thinking about how the Philippines is the only Christian-majority nation in Asia. As well as how it contrasts to the number of Christian-majority nations in Africa today. With that in mind, what would it take for another Asian country to get a majority Christian population?

Judaism is not just a religion, but a cultural and ethnic identity. Technically Christianity is too, especially in Europe, but only informally. What if Christian Churches have actively incorporated this into their theologies and encouraged for the particular denomination of their brethren to...

What changes in History would need to come to pass so that in 2019, most European countries are at least as religious as the Southern States of the USA? For example, LGBT rights are rejected in favor of a Biblical interpretation of sexuality, and the duty men and women must fulfill, there is a...

So I was thinking of how Roman repression of Judaism and early christianity contrast with how most Persian empires are much more tolerant. Now I dont know much about parthian tolerance or attitude to Christianity but I assume they'd be better than rome. What if for whatever reason, when Jesus...

What if Evangelicalism (also known as Evangelical Christianity or Evangelical Protestantism) had never existed? How might things have been altered by its absence?

In many Christian communities around the world, Fire is seen as a negative symbol, associated with the Devil, Hell, and Perdition. However in Central European Catholicism, it is usually seen as positive, symbolising the warm family hearth, the Eternal Flame above the Tabernacle in the Church...

In Japanese RPG games and some similarly themed Western video games (for example the JRPG "Chrono Trigger" or the Hungarian Manga RPG "Amnézia") the world presented before the player has a kind of syncretism of Medieval Japan and Medieval Europe, with some common Modern elements also added in...

Miguel Serveto, AKA Michael Servetus, was a Spanish-born medical physician, astronomer, and Christian theologian from the 16th century who is mostly famous for expressing a radical view of the Father-Son-Spirit trinity, in a way that could be considered a derivation of the Arianist doctrine from...

There is a minority view professed by some Christian denominations (Jehovah's Witnesses, Seventh-day Adventists, possibly also Christadelphians and Unitarians, not sure about the last two) that if you die as an unrepetant sinner, God punishes you not by sending you to Hell, but by destroying...

With a PoD after 1380, how can we tinker enough with the events of the Western Schism (in which there were two, then briefly three, Popes competing for supremacy over the Catholic Church) so that there's a long-lasting shattering of the Catholic Church in Europe over regional, national, and...

Between conquests of Ferdinand III of Castille (1252), and the final fall of Granada (1491) there is almost 250 years. It seems that Christian Cingdoms had a lot of bad luck later, since there was always either some plague, civil war or some new arabic intervention to save the Emirate of...