Encyclopedic Dictionary of Bible and Theology

Call (usually , kara’, , both which words evidently contain the same root as their Engl. equivalent) signifies (besides its use in giving a name), I. To cry to another for help, and hence to pray. he first passage in which we meet with this phrase is in Gen 4:26, Then began men to call … Continue reading “Call”

Calkins, Mary Whiton (1863-1930) Professor of Philosophy at Wellesley College with which institution she was associated from 1891. She advanced an objective idealism of the Roycean character, styling her views as absolutistic personalism. She endeavored to find psychological justification for her views in the gestalt theory. Her works were in both fields of her interestAn … Continue reading “Calkins, Mary Whiton”

Calkers workmen skilled in stopping the seams of the deck or sides of vessels. The inhabitants of Gebel were employed in such work on Tyrian vessels (Ezek. 27:9, 27; marg., “strengtheners” or “stoppers of chinks”). Fuente: Easton’s Bible Dictionary Calkers Those who stop up the seams between the boards of a ship, the modern way … Continue reading “Calkers”

Calker ( , machazik’ be’dek, a repairer of the breach, as in 2Ki 12:8; 2Ki 22:5; Sept. and Vulg. translate at random, , habuerunt nautas ad ministerium varice supellectilis),a workman skilled in stopping the seams of the deck or sides of a vessel, which appears to be the correct idea of the passages (Eze 27:9; … Continue reading “Calker”

Caliya in Hindu mythology, is the name of a great evil serpent, who was ultimately overcome and crushed by the god Vishnu in his incarnation Krishna. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Calixtus III, Pope Also spelled Calixtus III. Reigned from 8 April 1455 to 6 August 1458 . Born on 31 December 1378 at Xtiva, Valencia , Spain as Alphonso de Borgia; died on 6 August 1458 at Rome , Italy . He was Bishop of Valencia, then cardinal . As pope he organized Christian Europe … Continue reading “Calixtus III, Pope”

Calixtus III Pope, Spaniard of Valencia, named Alphonso Borgia, who was elevated to the papacy April 8,1455. He granted a commission to review the proceedings on the trial of Joan of Arc, which decided that she died a martyr for her religion and country. Calixtus did not canonize her, but permitted the celebration of certain … Continue reading “Calixtus III”

Calixtus II, Pope Also written Calixtus II. Son of Count William of Burgundy. Reigned from 1119 to 1124 . Born in Quingey, France as Gumo; died Rome, Italy . He was a Benedictine , Archbishop of Vienne, and cardinal . As pope he disciplined the French clergy , decreed against investiture , simony, and concubinage … Continue reading “Calixtus II, Pope”

Calixtus II Pope, son of Guillaume, count of Burgundy, was made archbishop of Vienne in 1088, and elected pope Feb. 1, 1119, while in retirement at Cluny. He was judged likely to compose the troubles about investiture, which had agitated the Church for fifty years; and even Henry V appeared to join in the general … Continue reading “Calixtus II”

Calixtus I, Saint, Pope Reigned 218 to 223. Martyr ; Roman of the “gens Domitia”; died in Rome, Italy. He was an archdeacon . As pope he regulated the marriage laws and granted communion to the adulterous after due penance had been undergone. Feast , Roman Calendar, 14 October . Fuente: New Catholic Dictionary