AHC: Church of England as a "4th" Abrahamic Religion

You can't say it was all at once, as there was no unified England yet. Conversion of the general populace had been attempted by the Irish, but generally failed. Conversion really began around 600 a.d.. The last pagan king died in 687. But even then, a lot of the population was still pagan for centuries after, whereas almost all the Franks and their subjects were converted by 800.

Let's be honest, it's not like any of the Lithuanians, Russians, or Magyars were really anything but some tribes until just before Christianization, and while they did convert quite a bit later in some cases, I was speaking more of western Europe. The reconquista was exactly that, a re-conquering I don't think that counts as conversion as they were christian before and during, for some, Muslin reign.

If the Reconquista counts as a reconquering than so do the Augustine missions seeing as the native Britons had already by and large converted to Christianity, we have evidence of some isolated Christian practices through the period as well. Indeed we have examples of 5th Century cemeteries with Christian style Romano-British and pagan style Anglo-Saxon burials in the same area. Frankly your last sentence seems rather like moving the goalposts.

And if we use burial practices as a measure of Christianisation then the population was pretty thoroughly converted by the 8th Century- grave goods decline massively and position becomes standardised on an East-West axis. The main difference is that Anglo-Saxon cemeteries, pagan or Christian, tended to be set up in isolation and weren't focused on a churchyard- mainly because what didn't happen quickly was the large-scale establishment of rural parish churches as Anglo Saxon Christianity tended to favour monasticism and iterant wandering preachers rather than local vicars, though most of the major settlements had parish churches by this time.
 

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Not quite ASB; the closet I can see is the CoE absorbing some of the stranger religious ideas floating around at the time of the War of the Three Kingdoms.
Every time people use that term, I keep imagining time-displaced Roundheads and Cavaliers fighting against Cao Cao's forces in Wei, Shu, and Wu... :D
 
Doesn´t the Samaritans consider themselves descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob?

As Samaritans are considered an offshoot of Judaism, yes. Supposedly they claim descent from the northern Israelite tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh rather than "mainstream" Judaism, which traces its lineage to Judah, Benjamin, and the priestly Levites.

EDIT: Here's a Samaritan site.
 
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Yes, I know there are more than 3 Abrahamic religions out there but I think you know what I mean: instead of having Church of England as just another branch of Christianity have it become, as viewed by its own members and ousiders, a seperate Abrahamic religion like Chrisianity, Islam and Judeism.

POD has to be no earlier than Henry VIII rule.

there is Catholic, Protestant, Eastern Orthodox, Shia Islam, Sunni Islam, Ibadi Islam...
shouldnt it the 7th?
 
there is Catholic, Protestant, Eastern Orthodox, Shia Islam, Sunni Islam, Ibadi Islam...
shouldnt it the 7th?

Those you mentioned are generally considered sects of Christianity and Islam, not separate religions altogether (even if their adherents often treat each other as if they were). This hypothetical "Church of England" would have to be as different from Christianity as Christianity is from Islam or Judaism for it to "count" for many people.
 
An alternate version of Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of Britain could perhaps work as a third testament..

Geoffrey claim his history is translated from a Latin original, written by the Prophet Saint Merlin, son of the Archangel Michael. This history includes extensive prophecies by Merlin, predicting that England is the future location of the New Jerusalem promised in Revelations, which the prophecies say will be a revived Camelot. This will happen when the kings of England fulfil their divinely appointed destiny, and unite the world under their banner. Naturally, any nation which dares oppose the English, God's new chosen people, shall be eternally damned.

The Catholic church condemns this as heretical, but it proves understandably popular with English royalty, so is never fully suppressed. When a later English king quarrels with the Pope, they adopt Geoffrey's History as a third testament, using it to justify their defiance of the Pope.

The king would need the support of leading figures in the English church, and even then it's pretty unlikely, but if they were successful England could end up with a church at least as distinctive as Mormonism.

How about someone adding a theme of William Blake somewhat earlier:

And did those feet in ancient time
Walk upon England's mountains green:
And was the holy Lamb of God,
On England's pleasant pastures seen!

And did the Countenance Divine,
Shine forth upon our clouded hills?
And was Jerusalem builded here,
Among these dark Satanic Mills?

This could result in a "gospel" or tradition of Jesus visiting Britain before his crucifixion - somehow endowing Britain with a special and separate role in greater Christianity. So special a role that "Anglicanism" became that fourth Abrahamic faith.
 
I came across this recently while reading a biography of Admiral John "Jacky" Fisher. It's obviously nuts, but John Fisher appears to have been an admirer and there were many other influential people who shared the belief. If this movement is embraced by the masses, and importantly by the Anglican hierarchy, then you might meet the criteria for the "fourth Abrahamic religion" by 2014. It is still Christian though, but sufficiently different from the mainstream to standalone. I can't see the Anglican Church altogether abandoning Christ as a deity (at least overtly).
 
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