coelum empireum

alternative coelum empyreum · alternative caelum empireum · alternative caelum empyreum

1. historicaluncountableThe outermost part of the cosmos in the Ptolemaic system; Heaven.

   Around [the earth] circled the stars in primum mobile and above this the heaven, coelum empireum, where Christ sat at the right hand of God

   1978, G. R. Potter, Zwingli, published 1984, page 17

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   After the death of the individual, the individual’s soul, if it is blessed, is taken to the celum empyreum to await the resurrection of the body.

   2002, Eric L. Saak, High Way to Heaven: The Augustinian Platform Between Reform and Reformation, 1292–1524, page 426

   The Ptolemaic cosmos that depicted a Primum Mobile as the first sphere below the coelum empireum (also defined as habitaculum Dei) was well consistent with this thought.

   2010, Paul Richard Blum, Philosophy of Religion in the Renaissance, page 133