Could you help identify royal religious apologia?

May 16, 2023 3:26 PM

I’m searching for other texts like The Questions of King Milinda, wherein a respected religious authority presented an account of his or her religion to a governing authority.
posted by jefficator to Religion & Philosophy (5 answers total)

One that immediately comes to mind is Judah haLevi's Kuzari, composed as a dialog between a rabbi and the king of the Khazars that results in the conversion of the king and a number of Khazar aristocrats to Judaism. There's an online version accessible through Sefaria.
posted by the tartare yolk at 4:54 PM on May 16, 2023 [1 favorite]

The 1660 Declaration of the Harmless and Innocent People of God Called Quakers, written by founder George Fox, may fit your bill. This version has modernized spelling and punctuation.
posted by Well I never at 4:57 AM on May 17, 2023 [1 favorite]

Fox was trying to convince the King to end persecution and imprisonment of members of the Religious Society of Friends.
posted by Well I never at 5:06 AM on May 17, 2023

Would Bede's account of King Edwin's conversion to Christianity work? With the two perspectives presented, paganism and Christianity, though we don't get that much detail about either, mainly the short simile about the sparrow flying through the building. It's Book 2 Chapter 13.
posted by paduasoy at 9:55 AM on May 17, 2023

Luther at the Diet of Worms?
posted by manageyourexpectations at 8:23 AM on May 18, 2023