ULFILAS

ŭlˈfĭləs or Wulfilawoolˈfĭlə [Gothic,=little wolf], c.311–383, Gothic bishop, translator of the Bible into Gothic. He was converted to Christianity at Constantinople and was consecrated bishop (341) by the Arian bishop Eusebius of Nicomedia. Ulfilas then returned to the Visigoths as a missionary; it was partly as a result of Ulfilas's work that the Goths became and remained Arians for so long in the face of triumphant Catholicism. Of Ulfilas's Bible only fragments remain—parts of Genesis, Nehemiah, most of the Gospels, and the whole of Second Corinthians, with several more fragments. Ulfilas is said to have invented the alphabet that he used.

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Dictionary of World Biography: The Ancient World - Vol. 1
Book by Frank N. Magill; Fitzroy Dearborn, 1998
Subjects: World History
ULFILAS Born: 311; the region of modern Rumania...Contribution: An apostle to the Goths, Ulfilas developed an alphabet for the Gothic language...Empire. Early Life Not much is known of Ulfilas early life. Tradition has it that his...
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The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing Biblical, Historical, Doctrinal, and Practical Theology and Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Biography from the Earliest Times to the Present Day - Vol. 12
Book by Johann Jakob Herzog; Funk and Wagnalls Company, 1908
Subjects: Theology--Encyclopedias
...sole document dealing with the death of Ulfilas, it would appear that, shortly after the council of Aquileia, Ulfilas and other bishops went to the imperial...winter of 381-382, and somewhat later Ulfilas was summoned by the emperor to return...
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The Encyclopedia of Christianity - Vol. 2
Book by Erwin Fahlbusch, Jan Mili� Lochman, John Mbiti, Jaroslav Pelikan, Lukas Vischer, Geoffrey W. Bromiley, David B. Barrett; Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1999
Subjects: Christianity--Encyclopedias
...individual Goths. We know the most about Ulfilas (largely through church historian Philostorgius...A - persecution of Christians forced Ulfilas and his circle to flee south (probably...according to Gothic historian Jordanes). Ulfilas, who died in 383, translated parts of...
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English Writers: An Attempt Towards a History of English Literature
Book by Henry Morley; Cassell, 1887
Subjects: English Literature--History And Criticism, Fiction
...tribe of Goths known as the Moso-Goths, by Ulfilas, its Christian guide. Of Ulfilas -- whose name is written also Ulfila, Ulphilas...Bishop of Dorostorus Silistria . This account of Ulfilas was found by Professor G. Waitz, ! . written...
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Ambrose of Milan and the End of the Nicene-Arian Conflicts
Book by Daniel H. Williams; Clarendon Press, 1995
Subjects: Ambrose--Saint, Bishop of Milan--d. 397--Views on Arianism, Arianism--Italy--Milan Region--History, Milan (Italy)--Church history
...divided into three parts: the major tenets of Ulfilas trinitarian doctrine chs. 41 - 54 , Ulfilas career chs. 55 - 62 , and a creed attributed...borders during the regime of Constantius II. Ulfilas personal history has been the subject of several...
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The Fall of Rome: Beginning in the Fourth Century, an Unprecedented Wave of Immigration Washed over the Roman Empire, Leading to the End of the Empire in the West
Magazine article by Dennis Behreandt; The New American, Vol. 22, October 30, 2006
Subjects: Goths (Germanic people)--History, Roman Empire, 30 BC-476 AD--History, Rome, Italy--History
...muddy path between rows of shoddy hovels. Ulfilas, the Bishop, scratched his head and...the time, was in the city of Antioch. Ulfilas, who was famous both among the Goths...the land of the Romans. Probably it was Ulfilas who journeyed back to the Danube to deliver...
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The United Bible Societies and World Mission
Magazine article by Samuel Escobar; International Bulletin of Missionary Research, Vol. 30, April 2006
Subjects: Bible, Christianity, Religious history, Religious missions, Society, United Bible Society
...importance of the vernacular for communicating the Gospel of Jesus Christ. It includes such outstanding figures as Jerome, Ulfilas, Cyril, Tyndale, and Luther. By the eighteenth century this tradition seems to have diminished, but it revived during...
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Speaking in Tongues
Magazine article by Lowell Weiss; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 275, June 1995
Subjects: Anthropological linguistics--Research, Bible (Sacred work), Linguistics--Research, Wycliffe Bible Translators--Research
...Indo-European languages, for example, were first devised by missionaries during the course of translation. The missionary Ulfilas is generally given credit for putting Gothic into writing in the fourth century, Mesrob for Armenian in the fifth century...


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encyclopedia articles on: Ulfilas  - 8 results

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Ulfilas
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
ULFILAS ul fil s or Wulfila wool fil Gothic...the Arian bishop Eusebius of Nicomedia. Ulfilas then returned to the Visigoths as a missionary...Corinthians, with several more fragments. Ulfilas is said to have invented the alphabet that...
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Arianism
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...formula (see Constantinople, First Council of ), and Arianism within the empire seems to have expired at once. However, Ulfilas had carried (c.340) Homoean Arianism to the Goths living in what is now Hungary and the NW Balkan Peninsula with such success...
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Visigoths
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...in Dacia as agriculturalists, and many had accepted Arian Christianity (see Arianism ), partly as a result of the work of Ulfilas . About 364 a group of Visigoths devastated Thrace, and punitive measures were undertaken against them. They were also involved...
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Missions
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...centers of Christian mission in Alexandria by the 2d cent., and at Constantinople by 404. Through his missionary efforts Ulfilas (311 83) converted the Goths to Arian Christianity (also see Arianism ). The following centuries were marked by notable...
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Uppsala, University Of
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...universitys library contains more than 1 million volumes and about 20,000 manuscripts, notably the Codex argenteus of Bishop Ulfilas The university has faculties of theology, law, medicine, arts (historical-philosophical and linguistic), social science...
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