protestantism

The Republic of Novgorod in present-day Northwestern Russia was closely related to Scandinavia and the Germanic peoples, was a member of the Hanseatic League, with Russian merchants being the most respected foreign of the Germans, and despite Orthodoxy there were two heresies that could have...

The Bulgarian national revival (link:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulgarian_National_Revival) in the 18th - 19th centuries was more directed against the Greek cultural and spiritual influence, exerted in this number also through the church, than against the Ottoman conquerors - for example, the...

I've been working on a Christian Japan timeline off-site for a little while now, and while I originally started it as a Catholic Japan TL, I recently began exploring the much more rarely explored idea of Japan instead being Protestant. This happened after I read up on the Chinese Rites...

Let's say that enough nobles in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth convert to Calvinism to the point where they're officially a protestant state and aid the anti-Habsburg uprisings in Hungary. What would their relationship be with each other and neighboring states? Would Hungary be an...

I'm writing a timeline where Christian II of Denmark isn't deposed from his position as King of Denmark, Norway and Sweden, due to him not carrying out the Stockholm Bloodbath. At first I was initially thinking that it wouldn't have a big effect on the course of The Reformation in Scandinavia...

One of the major reasons that Ireland remained Catholic was that Protestantism was seen as the faith of the English oppressors. But was it possible for them to consider a non-Anglican branch? Was there any way for Scottish Presbyterianism to reach Ireland and be seen as a way to remain outside...

How could Christian II avoid being deposed and hold on to the throne of Denmark and Norway until his death in 1559? How much of a difference would that make in Danish and Scandinavian politics? Wikipedia says he tried to increase the rights of commoners and bourgeoisie at the expense of the...

As the title says, sometime during Queen Mary I’s reign, she marries Elizabeth to Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy, as was floated around in OTL. What now? Would Elizabeth still become Queen if she’s married to a foreigner? Obviously she’d have Philip’s backing but might some nobles resist?

In 1501, 17-year-old Martin Luther entered the University of Erfurt to study law. However, he switched to studying religion and philosophy, a decision that would eventually lead to him leaving university and joining the Order of Saint Augustine in 1505. And we all know how his career as an...

I've seen here and there some discussions about how if Gustavus Adolphus survived Lutzen or was more successful in the 30 Years War, he would have become a sort of Protestant Holy Roman Emperor, ruling over Northern Germany. But are there any historical sources that show this was what he had in...

So in my TL (link below), England and thus Britain stays Catholic, and Denmark-Norway is more successful in maritime expeditions. I don't know how strong a correlation ons can draw between "Protestant->Capitalist Innovations and First Industrializers" but one cannot deny that Britain and the...

Basically, what if, for some reason, Philip II of Spain decided to do a Henry VIII and break with the Pope and declare himself the head of the Church in Spain and the Low Countries around the early years of his reign?

Your challenge is to have the majority of Hungary be Lutheran by the year 1600.

Sigismund II (October 18, 1523 - September 9, 1596) "I won't be a king of your conscience."

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...

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...

I remember hearing about how anglicans at one point were trying to be in communion with Catholicism at one point but it fell through. (This was in the 1970s if I'm correct.) So here's a challenge, with a POD after 1900 make the USA's various protestant denominations catholic I'm talking...

IOTL, the gravitational center of Dutch Protestant discontent with Habsburg rule was actually located not in Amsterdam, which remained mostly loyal to the Spanish until it was captured by military means, but in Flanders, particularly the key port city of Antwerp. As the Eighty Years' War...

IOTL, the Cologne War of the 1580's was a major religiously-motivated conflict that occured in the region of the northern Rhine river basin in Germany. It sprung as the Archbishop-Elector of Cologne, Gebhard of Waldburg, married a protestant woman and then announced a plan to secularize the...