WI: Trinity is considered heterodox

This thread is not meant to debate Christian doctrines. Rather, the WI is what would the global religious scene be, presuming Christianity can gain ascendance in Rome, that standard Theology stretching back to Tertuallian, Origen, and then headier theologians such as Athanasius, Chrysostom and Augustine were all Unitarians, and not Trinitarians?

Would Judaism become like Zoroastrianism (irrelevant and tinier) and essentially get absorbed into Christianity? Would Islam essentially be a different branch of Christianity? Would there be modern versions of Jehovah's Witnesses that are Trinitarian?

Lastly, what if older, better authenticated, manuscrips were unearthed beginning in the 19th century that showed that 1 John 5:7 had a Trinitarian statement? How would "Orthodox" Christians react?
 
This thread is not meant to debate Christian doctrines. Rather, the WI is what would the global religious scene be, presuming Christianity can gain ascendance in Rome, that standard Theology stretching back to Tertuallian, Origen, and then headier theologians such as Athanasius, Chrysostom and Augustine were all Unitarians, and not Trinitarians?

Would Judaism become like Zoroastrianism (irrelevant and tinier) and essentially get absorbed into Christianity? Would Islam essentially be a different branch of Christianity? Would there be modern versions of Jehovah's Witnesses that are Trinitarian?

Lastly, what if older, better authenticated, manuscrips were unearthed beginning in the 19th century that showed that 1 John 5:7 had a Trinitarian statement? How would "Orthodox" Christians react?

Many of the Germanic tribes ("barbarians") were Arian by the 5th century, so if you have more of them aggressively promote Arianism or persecute their Nicene opponents like the Vandals tried to, it could do the trick. I'm not sure how you would convert the theologians you mention without butterflying some of the others.

You might be able to revive nontrinitarianism albeit with different interpretations of it with a combination of more successful Mormonism (three separate entities with unity of purpose make up the Godhead if I understand correctly) Jehovah's Witnesses (I've seen enough Watchtower tracts to know that they make lengthy biblical arguments against trinitarianism), and Unitarians with 19th century or later PODs.


The Council of Nicaea was also overwhelmingly Trinitarian, especially in the "Latin West". Westerners saw the Arian dispute as a quarrel among Origen's followers if my source is correct.

Changing earlier theologians to Arianism or other forms of nontrinitarianism would likely make the other ones vanish from history. I'm fairly strict on the "butterfly effect". :)

The main source I used here was Justo González's The Story of Christianity Volume 1: The Early Church to the Dawn of the Reformation.

Of course, such PODs would make it so Islam would not exist, which would make for a far stronger Zoroastrianism.

Judaism would still exist. Jewish religion and culture has survived intense persecution and genocidal maniacs in OTL, so I see no reason why it would vanish in alternate timelines.
 
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