Choiseul (Beaupre), Gabriel Plorent de a French prelate, was born at Dinant in June 1685. He was consecrated bishop of Saint-Papoul, July 17, 1718, and bishop of Mende in 1723. He died in 1767, leaving Statuts Synodaux (Mende, 1739, 8vo). See Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, s.v. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Choir-Wall, Or Choir-Screen
Choir-Wall, Or Choir-Screen is the wall or screen of wood, metal, or stone which divides the choir or presbytery from the rest of the church. It is usually ornamented, often with great beauty. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Choir Religious
Choir Religious Members of a religious institute or order who are obliged to recite the Office in common; or at least in private, even though not bound by Holy Orders; usually those professed under solemn vows, as distinguished from lay religious or those professed under simple vows, e.g., nuns engaged in teaching as contrasted with … Continue reading “Choir Religious”
Choir
choir The part of the church reserved for the stalls of canons, priests, monks, and choristers, separated from the rest by low carved partitions of stone or wood. In early churches it extended from the apse to the nave of which it was part, and the term was later made to include the entire eastern … Continue reading “Choir”
Choin, Louis Albert Joly De
Choin, Louis Albert Joly De a French prelate and theologian, was born at Bourg, in Bresse, January 22. 1702. He was grand-vicar of the diocese of Nantes. Having been called to that bishopric, he evinced lively zeal and earnest morality, introducing wise reforms in his diocese which he strengthened by the simplicity of his manners … Continue reading “Choin, Louis Albert Joly De”
Choice, William
Choice, William a minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church South, was born in Hancock County, Georgia, in January 1800. He was admitted into the Georgia Conference in 1832, and continued in it, with but a few short interruptions, until 1846, when he was transferred to the Florida Conference. He was zealous and faithful to the … Continue reading “Choice, William”
Choice, Choose, Chosen
Choice, Choose, Chosen “to pick out, select,” means, in the Middle Voice, “to choose for oneself,” not necessarily implying the rejection of what is not chosen, but “choosing” with the subsidiary ideas of kindness of favor or love, Mar 13:20; Luk 6:13; Luk 9:35 (RV); Luk 10:42; Luk 14:7; Joh 6:70; Joh 13:18; Joh 15:16, … Continue reading “Choice, Choose, Chosen”
Choice, axiom of
Choice, axiom of or Zermelo’s axiom, is the name given to an assumption of logical or logico-mathematical character which may be stated as followsGiven a class K whose members are non-empty classes, there exists a (one-valued) monadic function f whose range is K, such that f(x) &isinx for all members x of K. This had … Continue reading “Choice, axiom of”
Choice
Choice CHOICE.In the Gospels, choice is always expressed by one small group of closely connected words, viz. , , . And these at once define the nature of the choice, which is not that of decision, but that of selection. Perhaps the English term which more precisely than any other answers to is to cull, … Continue reading “Choice”
Choetshitshalba
Choetshitshalba in the mythology of Thibet, is an evil god, who threatens the destruction of the world; hence another, Jamadaga, was created to battle incessantly with him. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature