Ulfilas Apostle of the Goths: Together with an Account of the Gothic Churches and Their Decline (Classic Reprint)

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Teutonic race were the conceptions so bold, the achieve ments so great, and the ultimate failure so complete. Geographically their line of inﬂuence extends from the Bosphorus to the Pillars of Hercules. Chronologically their history covers the transition from the Roman empire to modern Europe. In the history of religion they are contemporaries and spectators of the passage from paganism to papacy. Their position from these different points of view is strangely similar. Driven like a wedge into the eastern side of Europe by the superincumbent weight of the Huns, they pass along the whole length of it, to be similarly thrust out at the west by the Franks. During this whole course they hold a place intermediate between barbarism and civili sation. They are not nomads, yet they are not able to found a state. Their political fate is matched by their ecclesiastical. They are not heathens, yet they are not acknowledged as Christians. Planted in an indefen sible position by their Arian creed, they are crushed between the opposing masses of heathendom and Catholicism.

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