Encyclopedic Dictionary of Bible and Theology

Charitably chari-ta-bli ( , kata agapen): The Revised Version (British and American), which substitutes love for charity regularly, removing the latter word from the vocabulary of Scripture, makes a like change in Rom 14:15, the only occurrence of charitably in the King James Version; the Revised Version (British and American) in love. See CHARITY. Fuente: … Continue reading “Charitably”

CHARITABLENESS-UNCHARITABLENESS (A) CHARITABLENESS(1) Duty of Pro 17:9; Mat 7:3; Rom 15:1; Gal 6:1; 1Pe 4:8 –SEE Mercy (2), MERCIFULNESS (2) Judgment Forbidden Mat 7:1; Rom 2:1; Rom 14:4; Rom 14:13; 1Co 4:5; Jam 4:12 –SEE Mercy (2), MERCIFULNESS (B) UNCHARITABLENESS(1) General References to Isa 29:20; Isa 29:21; Mat 7:4; Joh 1:46; Act 28:4; 1Ti 6:4 … Continue reading “CHARITABLENESS-UNCHARITABLENESS”

Charitableness General references Pro 10:12; Pro 17:9; Mat 5:23-24; Mat 6:14-15; Mat 7:1-5; Luk 6:36-42; Mat 18:21-35; Luk 17:3-4; Joh 7:24; Rom 14:1-23; 1Co 4:5; 1Co 10:28-33; 1Co 13:1-13; 1Co 16:14; Gal 6:1; Eph 4:32; Col 3:13-14; 1Ti 1:5; 1Ti 4:12; 2Ti 2:22; Jas 2:13; Jas 4:11-12; 1Pe 3:9; 1Pe 4:8 Love; Uncharitableness Fuente: Nave’s … Continue reading “Charitableness”

Charitable Irish Society Founded, 17 March 1737 , in Boston , is the earliest American Emigrant aid society emigrant aid society. Originally it was anti -Catholic , but at present it is preponderantly Catholic in membership and in those to whom it ministers. Fuente: New Catholic Dictionary

Charitable Bequests, Civil Law Concerning The word charity, as employed by the courts and used as descriptive of uses and trusts which will he upheld as charitable, has been the subject of a number of definitions. In the famous Girard will case (Vidal v. Girard, 2 How. U. S. 127), Horace Binney defines a charitable … Continue reading “Charitable Bequests, Civil Law Concerning”

charitable bequests In law, gifts made by will for the welfare of the community or of an indefinite part of it, and so contrasting with what is left to private individuals; thus schools, orphanages, hospitals, churches, and libraries may be the recipients of charitable bequests. Technically a bequest is a gift of personal property, a … Continue reading “charitable bequests”

Charistia was a festival of relatives among the Romans, celebrated Feb. 19. The whole family was then assembled, past differences and discords were laid aside, and the bonds of love and unity were made firmer. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Charisterius In the Valentinian fragment preserved by Epiphanius (Haer. xxxi, 6), this name is given to one of five moons without consorts, whose generation took place at a late point in the series of emanations. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Charismata See Gifts. Fuente: Dictionary of the Apostolic Church charismata (Greek: gifts) A theological term designating certain extraordinary gifts of the Holy Ghost , granted to individual Christians, not for their personal sanctification, but for the spiritual advantage of others. Saint Paul enumerates most of them in 1st Corinthians 12: the word of wisdom, the … Continue reading “Charismata”

Charisma (), (1.) one of the names by which baptism was designated in the early Church; (2.) a spiritual gift. SEE GIFTS, SPIRITUAL. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature