Encyclopedic Dictionary of Bible and Theology

Cerlcus SEE CYRICUS. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Cerisiers (or Ceriziers), Rene de a French historian and ascetic theologian, of the order of the Jesuits, was born at Nantes in 1609. After having taught in several colleges of his order, he asked and received secularization. He was then made chancellor and councilor of Louis XIV. He died in 1662, leaving a great number … Continue reading “Cerisiers (or Ceriziers), Rene de”

Cerinthus, opponent of St. John Cerinthus, a traditional opponent of St. John. It will probably always remain an open question whether his fundamentally Ebionite sympathies inclined him to accept Jewish rather than Gnostic additions. Modern scholarship has therefore preferred to view his doctrine as a fusing together and incorporating in a single system tenets collected … Continue reading “Cerinthus, opponent of St. John”

Cerinthus Probably Cerinthus was educated in Egypt (Hippol., vii. 7, 33; x. 21 [ed. Duncker]); certainly he taught in proconsular Asia contemporaneously with John, the writer of the Gospel and Epistles, i.e. in the last quarter of the 1st cent. a.d. (Polycarp, quoted in Iren., adv. Haer. iii. iii. 4). Cerinthus is one of the … Continue reading “Cerinthus”

CERINTHIANS Ancient heretics, who denied the deity of Jesus Christ; so named from Cerinthus. They believed that he was a mere man, the son of Joseph and Mary; but that in his baptism a celestial virtue descended on him in the form of a dove; by means whereof he was consecrated by the Holy Spirit, … Continue reading “Cerinthians”

Ceridwen in British mythology, was the goddess of nature, but also goddess of death as well as of the renewal of life, according to the Druid’s doctrine of the transmigration of souls. Ceridwen was married to Tegid Voel, a man of high birth, whose fatherland lay in the middle of the Tegid Sea. A son, … Continue reading “Ceridwen”

Cerhas (; in later Hebrews or Syriac ), a surname which Christ bestowed upon Simon (Joh 1:42), and which the Greeks rendered by , and the Latins by Petrus, both words meaning “a rock,” which is the signification of the original. SEE PETER. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Cerf, Le SEE LECERF. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Cerezo, Matteo an eminent Spanish painter, was born at Burgos in 1635. He studied at Madrid, under Juan Carrefo, and painted several pictures for the churches of Madrid and Valladolid. His best performance is, Christ with his Disciples at Emmaus. He died in 1685. See Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Gnrale, s.v.; Spooner, Biog. Hist. of the … Continue reading “Cerezo, Matteo”

Cereus Paschalis SEE MAUNDY THURSDAY. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature