Encyclopedic Dictionary of Bible and Theology

Carpenter, Charles an English Baptist minister, was born at Alsford, Hants, in 1796. He was converted in his youth, and baptized at Folkestone, Kent. He established the first Baptist chapel at Dover, and afterwards removed to Rochester, where he gathered a new church and was its pastor for four years. He next settled in London … Continue reading “Carpenter, Charles”

Carpenter, Burton a Baptist minister, was born at Monkton, Vt., March 5, 1785. He was ordained in 1816, in Schoharie County, N. Y., where he was a useful and successful pastor for nearly a third of a century. In 1838 he removed to the West, on account of ill health, but was able to preach … Continue reading “Carpenter, Burton”

Carpenter, Alfred G a minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church South, was born in South Carolina, Aug. 1, 1837. He professed religion at the age of fourteen; became careless afterwards, but was reclaimed when about eighteen; labored from that time as exhorter and Sunday school superintendent till 1862, when he was licensed to preach, and, … Continue reading “Carpenter, Alfred G”

Carpenter the rendering in the Auth. Vers. of the Hebrews , charash’ (2Sa 5:11; 1Ch 14:1; Isa 44:13, etc.), as also of its Greek equivalent .(Mat 13:55; Mar 6:3; 1Es 5:14; Sir 38:27, etc.), a general name, applicable to an artificer in stone, iron, or copper, as well as in wood. SEE ARTIFICER. The Hebrews, … Continue reading “Carpenter”

Carpasia A titular see of Cyprus. Carpasia, Karpasia, also Karpasion (sometimes mistaken for Karpathos) is said to have been founded by King Pygmalion near Cape Sarpedon, now Cape St. Andrea, at the extreme end of a peninsula on the north-east shore of Cyprus, a short distance north of the modern Rhizokarpaso. Its first-known bishop, St. … Continue reading “Carpasia”

Carpano, Pietro Vicente an Italian scholar and sacred orator, a native of Milan, lived in the early half of the 17th century. He was secular priest and director of the seminary of Brescia, where he taught eloquence. He wrote, De Ratione Scribendi hEpistolas Scholce Priores (Brescia, 1613): Christus Nascens, Christus Circuncisus, Poemata (Genoa, 1625): Della … Continue reading “Carpano, Pietro Vicente”

Carpani, Giuseppe an Italian theologian and poet, was born at Rome, May 2,1683. He joined the Jesuits, taught rhetoric, philosophy, and theology at, the Germanic college of Rome, and died there about 1765, leaving seven Tragedies in Latin verse (Vienna, 1746; Rome, 1750): De Jesu Infante (Rome, 1747); both works are published under his academic … Continue reading “Carpani, Giuseppe”

Carpagna, Gasparo an Italian cardinal, theologian, and numismatologist, who lived in the latter half of the 17th century, wrote, Epistola Pastoralis in the series of Carlo Borromeo: Instructiones Pastorum. (Louvain, 1702; Rouen, 1707). But Carpagna is better known as the collector of a cabinet of coins and medals, a catalogue and description of which is … Continue reading “Carpagna, Gasparo”

Carpaccio, Vittore A Venetian painter whose real name was Scarpazza, b. at Venice about 1455; d. in the same city between 1523 and 1526. He was one of those Venetian masters who formed a link between the earlier artists, such as Jacobello del Fiore and the classic painters like Giorgione and Titian. Lazzaro Bastiani was … Continue reading “Carpaccio, Vittore”

Carpaccio, Benedetto an Italian painter, probably the son or nephew of Vittore, painted a picture in 1537, in the church of the Rotonda, at Capo d’Istria, representing the Coronation of the Virgin. See Spooner, Biog. Hist. of the Fine Arts, s.v.; Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Gneral s.v. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature