I also liked the way Paul McCusker handled it in his Passages series, in which kids from our world end up in another and basically live in certain Old Testament stories. In one book, it's clear that this other world has not had its "New Testament" yet, but a prophet knew that everything was building up to the climax of God's grand plan (ie: salvation through Christ's crucifixion and resurrection/ the equivalent that world would have); the kid of that story says, "I know what it's leading up to!" but the prophet tells him to not detail this event before its time. In the Moses book, a firstborn boy from our world goes up to the Moses character to receive the mark of blood on his forehead (the book transferred it from the doorposts to the children's foreheads) but the Moses character says that he has already been covered (ie: the boy was a Christian in our world and that transferred over to his time in this other world that did not yet have its Christ figure). The problem with that, though, is that in order to say those things, Passages specifically depended on the world-hopping that happened, which, I assume, isn't happening in your story.
I was almost going to say that you could write this pre-crucifixion/resurrection and go with a more Jewish-type of faith (ie: hoping for Messiah rather than already having had him come), but you say the setting is idealized medieval, so that kinda nixes that idea if you wanted to pursue the ambiguous world setting.
However... I remember reading one juvenile biography as a kid about Indians (that is, Native Americans) who had not received the Gospel and yet at least one man in the village did have at least something of an understanding of and relationship with God. That would easily work in this world or another.
The pro of these is that you could get away with not having to specify anything about a crucifixion/resurrection event, whether or not it's happened in the world of your story. The con is that you would lose that very important element (yea, the very pinnacle) of the Christian faith. So if your story needs that, then I've just talked myself into a corner and will proceed to shut up. Statistics: Posted by Ariel.of.Narnia — Tue Jan 12, 2016 6:32 am
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