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CoireotOres RomOni, a congregation of cardi- nals and Boman theologians of thirty-five members, appointed by pope Pins Y to revise the decretwn Cfror Hani (see Corpus juris Canonici), Among the five car- dinals who belonged to the college was Hugo Boncom- pagnus (subsequently pope Gregory XIII). The work was completed during the pontificate of Gregory XIII, who ordered the compilers to index all that had been collected, with regard to the decretum, by the con- gregation and by others, to invite all Catholic acad- emies to co-operate in the work of revision, and to have all the former editions of the decretum compared. Gregory sanctioned the work July 1, 1580. — Wetzer u. Welte, Kirchen-Lex. ii, 894.
CoxTodi, Heimrich, a prominent writer of the Ra- tionalistic school, was bom at Zurich, July 81, 1752. He was admitted to the ministry in 1775 ; continued his theological studies in Leipsic and Halle, where es- pecially Semler (q. v.) had great influence upon him, and was in 1786 appointed professor of ethics and nat- ural law at the gymnasinm of Zurich. This position he retahied until h'ls death, Sept. 14, 1798. His princi- pal works are Gtschiehie des ChiUasmus (A vols. Frankf. and Leips. 1781-88, fhU, but very diffuse, and abound- mg in worthless matter); Bekuchtung der Ossck. de$ j6d, u. ehristL Bibekanons (Halle, 1792, 2 vols.) ; PkUos. Ai^sdtM u. Oesprdche (Whiterthur, 1786, 2 vols.); Versueh Hber Qott, die WeU u. d. mensdd, Seele (Berlin, 1788), and the periodical BeUrdge tur BeJ^r- denmg des vernQs^fUgen Denkens in d.Beli^ion (IS num- bers, Winterthur, 1781-1794 ; two numbers appeared after his death under the name of Neue BeUrdffe),^
Pierer, Universal-Lexikon, iv, 464 ; Herzog, BeaiUEn-' cykhpddUy m,167.
Corruption (prop, some form of hrp^^MocAoA', Sia<p^tipw), This term is used in Scripture to signify the putrefoction of dead bodies (Psalm xvi, 10), the blemishes which rendered an animal unfit for sacrifice (Lev. xxii, 25), sinful inclinations, habits, and prac- tices, which dedSle and ruin men (Rom. viii, 21 ; 2 Pe- ter ii, 12, 19), everlasting ruin (Galat. vi, 8), men in their mortal and imperfect state (1 Cor. xv, 42, 50).
MouvT OF CoBBUPTioM (Ti'^H^B*? ^H, Sept. 6poc roi) Mo<rxt^ v. r. Mo<T^a&, Vulg. mons offinsioms\ a hill in the neighborhood of Jerusalem, where Solomon had established the worship of the Ammonitish deity Milcom, which Josiah overthrew (2 Kings xxiii, 18). Tradition assigns the locality of the " Mount of Of- fence" to the eminence immediately south of the Mt. of Olives (see Barclay, CUy of the Great King, p. 64 sq.; Stanley, Pa^. p. 185, note). See Jebusalbx.
Corrapticdlao, a sect of Monophysites, who taught that the body of Christ before the resurrection was corruptible. See Momophtsitbs ; Sevbriaits,
Cortex, DoNoso. See DoNoeo Cobtbz.
CortholtfCHBUTiAN, an eminent Lutheran Church historian, was bom at Burg, in the island of Femem, Denmark, Jan. 15th, 1632. His studies, commenced at Schleswig, were continued in the universities of Ros- tock, Jena, Leipsic, and Wittenberg. In 1662 he be- came professor of Greek at Rostock, where he was made D.D. He was afterwards called to the profes- sorship of theology at Kiel by the duke of Holstein- Gottorp, and in 1666 became vice-chancellor of that universi^. He died March 81 (or April 1st), 1694. His principal works are, De persecuHonibus ecdesim primitivte sub imperatoribus ethnicis (Jen. 1660, 4to ; Kileu. 1689) ; Paganus obtrectator s, de calumtdis gen^ tilium Gib. ui, Kit 1698; Lubec, 1708, 4to); Disqmsi' tiones Anti-Baroniana (KU. 1700, 1708, etc.) ; Bisi. eccL N, T. (Lips. 1697), etc. See Piping, Memoria Theo- logorum nostra ataie darissimorum (Lips. 1705, p. 571 sq.) ; Bayle, Dictionary, s. v. ; Iselin, ffist. Wdrterbuch; Schrdckh (i, p. 178) ; Herzog, Beal-EncyJdop, viii, 82.
Corvey, Abbey of, a celebrated monastery near Hdxter, in Germany. The Benedictines of Corbie (q. v.), in Picardy (France), sent out in 816 a colony to found a convent in the forests of Sollingen, T)ut the monks removed in 822 to a more healthy region^ where they established Corbeja nova, or Corvey. Louis the Pious endowed them with numerous possessions and privileges, and his example was followed by many other princes and laymen, so that Corvey soon became the richest of all the German convents. The abbot obtained a voice in the diets, and was amenable only to the papal authority. The school of the convent was highly flourishing during the 9th and 10th centuries. Among the many celebrated men who proceeded tiom Corvey was Ansgar (q. v.), the apostle of the Scandi- navians, the learned Paschasius Radbertus (q. v.), St. Adalbert, archbishop of Magdeburg, and many arch- bishops of Bremen and Hamburg. At the period of its greatest prosperity the convent had twenty-four theological professors, and its library was celebrated for its large number of classical manuscripts. Thus the first five books of Tacitus, which were commonly regarded as lost, were found in Corvey. Unfortunate- ly, this exquisite library was destroyed in the Thirty Years' War. In 1794 Corvey was erected into a bish^ opric, but secularized in 1804, and joined in 1807 to Wes^halia, and in 1815 to Prussia. See Wigand, Gesch. d, Abtei Korveg (H6xter, 1819) ; and Korveische Geschichlsquellen (Lpz. 1841); Schumann, Ueber das Chronicon Corv^ense (Gfitt 1889); Wetzwr u. Welte, Kircken-Lex, ii, 898.
CorvinuB, Ahthokt (properly Rabbnbb), one of the German Reformers, was bom at Warburg fai 1501*
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