christianity

There was once a time before 664 where Ionan Christian beliefs dominated Northumbrian Christianity, nearly upended the Gregorian mission, and rivaled papal power in the British Isles. After a few contentious years of argumentative debate over such things as the interpretation of the date of...

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...

http://aijaa.com/zB0iIH This is my first official map of Magellanica showing European colonies c.1800. I'll post more maps as I get them done.

There's this (possibly apocryphal) story I remember reading about as a child about how Gahndi in his youth went to a church to find out about spiritual answers, only to be turned away by a racist deacon and/or priest (sources vary). As such this made Gahndi a bit more critical and bitter towards...

So, prior to the 1800s, generate a Christianity offshoot followed by an average sized country. EDIT: by offshoot I mean something that is clearly based in Christianity but differs by the inclusion of eg a new prophet

Is it possible to take the nomads of the Eurasian steppes and have one group of them form a nomadic empire or state while being predominantly Christian or having Christianity as the state religion (kind of like how the Golden Horde became Islamic)? (Are there examples already?)

As we all know, Christianity was adopted in the Sassanian Persian empire with the Sassanian Emperor converting to Christianity in 1086 AUC (333 AD) and Christianity becoming the official religion of the Sassanian Empire (albeit a form syncretized with Zoroastrianism with Zoroaster seen as a...

Title says it all. The state must not be a colony. Bonus points if you can get this christian kingdom to be a regional power.

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I'm not talking about Unitarian Universalism, but the more traditional Protestant religion developed in Transylvania in the 16th and 17th centuries. The main beliefs of Unitarians are: -God is the sole, indivisible creator and master of the Universe. He/she is perfect, omnipotent and...

Based on an idea from a few months back -- what if, instead of inviting the Almoravid forces from Africa to help fight off the invading forces of Alfonso VI, the tiafas had managed to consolidate around Seville? (Details in the link; if they're important here than yes, the Normans are also in...

Artists interpretation of Amakusa Shiro, leader of the Shimabara Rebellion. From Wikipedia The Shimabara Rebellion (島原の乱 Shimabara no ran) was an uprising in what is now Nagasaki Prefecture in southwestern Japan lasting from December 17, 1637, to April 15, 1638, during the Edo period. It...

So CKII rightly gets a lot of slack for its portrayal of what happens to the marginalised faiths when they "reform" which inevitably leads to centralisation in that game. Just like with Vicky II we can forgive some of this due to its gamey nature, but are there any real life examples of attempts...

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So as we all know that the Roman and Han Empires were both mired in crises in the late second and third centuries, but that they emerged from said crises very differently -- China split into three kingdoms for most of the century, was briefly reunited by the Jin, only to fall apart again in the...

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Any thoughts about what climate and vegetation zones would there be in Pacific Magellanica? And natural resources? Population?

The fan application to the timeline - To Ourselves, To New Paganism As you probably know in the eighth-ninth centuries Ab urbe condita (using Roman chronology to avoid confusion), the process of mixing and philosophical rethinking of old religions began. In essence, a modern religious...

How would she pick a papal name? What are some good choices? How could this come about? I know the code of canon law says, "Only a baptized man (Latin: vir) validly receives sacred ordination." However, I think some have taken this to mean that women only cannot validly be ordained as deacons...

What would happen if Constantine loses the battle of the milvian bridge? Would Christianity be stopped and what religion would replace it?