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Originally Posted by dlish
From what i can remember, Arian had boycotted the Council of Nicea which is where the concept of the trinity was born.
I wonder how it would have changed the course of history had he attended.
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This was my thought. Without the divinity of Jesus, without the trinity, Arianism starts to look a lot more like Islam than Roman Catholicism. If Arianism became the main force of Christendom in the Byzantine era, the antithesis between Islam and Western Christianity may have been significantly reduced such that the crusades and dark age may not have happened.
One can also imagine a situation in which Mohamed was seen by the (Arian) Church as a scholar not an enemy.
Almost reminds me of the Amis novel "The Alteration" that jumps off from the point of Martin Luther being made Pope Germanicus and the Anglican/Roman split in the Church not happening.
Is anyone brave enough to write a counter-factual history in which Mohammed is elected "Pope Orientus I" in an Arian Church, the Caliphate and Christendom overlap and the Dark Ages never happen?