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Authors: Diarmaid MacCulloch

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Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years (210 page)

United States of America; and Christian Right; Rights struggles; War (1861-5); Congress; Constitution; and cremation; Declaration of Independence (1776); and decolonization; 'Founding Fathers'; Great Depression; indigenous Christianities (
see also
Millerites; Mormons; Pentecostalism); and Japan; and Latin America; Marshall Plan; national anthems; Orthodoxy in; Pacific colonies (Hawaii; Philippines); Prohibition; Protestant character United States of America -
cont
.; and Reformed Protestantism; Revolution (1776-83); Roman Catholicism in; and sexual revolution; Socialism in; in Vietnam; War of

Episcopal Church (Protestant Episcopal Church of the USA); in Africa; in Philippines

universalism and Origen

universities (and see individual names) ; and Jesuits; modern; in Renaissance

urban life

Urfa:
see
Edessa

Ursulines

Ussher, James (1581; Archbishop of Armagh 1625-56)

usury

Utraquism and Utraquist Church;
defined
;
see also
Hussites

Valdes, Juan de (?1490-1541) and Valdesianism

Vatican Council(1870-71) ; Vatican Council II (1962-5); Vatican State:
see
Rome

vegetarianism

Venice ; and Fourth Crusade; and papacy

Vermigli, Piermartire (Peter Martyr; 1499-1562)

Vermont

vernacular liturgy

vestments

Vienna; Congress of (1815)

Vikings:
see
Norsemen

Vincent of Lerins (d.
c.
445) and 'Vincentian Canon'

Virginia

virgins and virginity; Chinese;
see also
Mary

Visigoths

King: Alaric I (
c.
370; 395-410)

visions

Vitoria, Francisco de (1483-1546)

Vladimir-on-the-Kliazma

Vodou:
see
syncretism

Voltaire (Francois-Marie Arouet; 1694-1778)

Vulgate:
see
Bible

Wahhabite Islam and Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Wahhab (1703-92)

Waldensians

Wales

Wali-Allah, Shah (1703-62)

wall paintings

warfare and violence; and Carolingians; and early Christians; and Goths; just war theory; and modern Christians; and Muslims; and Russians;
see also
crusades; George; pacifism; Peace of God movement; Sergius and Bacchus; soldiers

Warsaw, Confederation of (1573)

Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)

wealth, and Christianity;
see also
Jesus Christ

Weber, Max (1864-1920) and 'Protestant work ethic'

Wentworth, Thomas, Earl of Strafford (1593-1641)

Wesley, Charles (1707-88)

Wesley, John (1703-91) , Plate 38

Wessex

Kings; Alfred (849-99); Ine (d.725)

Western Christianity, Ch.; and Enlightenment;
see also
Protestantism; Roman Catholicism; Western (Latin) Church

Western Empire:
see
Roman Empire

Western (Latin) Church (medieval), Chs., Ch.; and 'barbarian' rulers; and Bible; character;
defined
; and Iconoclastic Controversy; invention of theology; and mission in Asia; and original sin; and Orthodox Christians; and penance, Purgatory and indulgences; and persecution ; and Rus'; and sexual regulation; symbol of
Romanitas
; tidymindedness of;
see also
architecture: Gothic, Romanesque; Arianism; Catholicism;
filioque
; Great Schism; Greek Catholic Church; Gregorian Reform; Mass; Roman Catholicism; Rome; Uniate Churches; union of Churches

Westminster; Abbey

Westphalia, Peace of (1648)

Whigs

Whitby; Synod of (664)

Whitefield, George (1714-70), Plate 37

Whitefriars:
see
Carmelites

Whithorn

Wilberforce, William (1759-1833)

Willem of Orange:
see
United Provinces:
stadhouders

William of Ockham:
see
Ockham

William the Silent:
see
United Provinces:
Stadhouders

Wisdom literature;
see also
Bible: individual books: Proverbs

witchcraft

Wittenberg (Lutherstadt-Wittenberg); Castle Church; University

women; in ancient Greek society; and Christianity; as clergy; and education; and Enlightenment; and Iconoclast Controversy; leadership roles and Christian activism ; as mystics; as prophets;
see also
families; feminism; marriage; Mary; men; misogyny; nuns; ordination; witchcraft

Worcester

Word of Faith movement

World Council of Churches

World War(1914-18), Maps(921-3)

World War(1939-45)

Worms, Diet (1521)

Wyclif, John (
c.
)

Xhosa people and language

Xi'an (Chang'an); 'Nestorian stele', Plate

Ximenes de Cisneros, Francisco (1436-1517)

Yahweh;
see also
God

Yemen

York (Eboracum)

youth

Yugoslavia;
see also
Bosnia-Herzegovina; Croatia; Montenegro; Serbia; Slovenes

Zelanti

Zinzendorf, Nikolaus Ludwig, Count von (1700-1760)

Zion;
see also
Jerusalem

Zoroastrianism

Zulu

Zurich

Zwingli, Huldrych (1484-1531); and commonwealth; death; and Luther; and radicals

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