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Supremacy, Royal In the Church of England all ecclesiastical jurisdiction is annexed to the crown; and it is ordained that no foreign potentate shall exercise any power, civil or religious, within the limits of that kingdom. Canon 2 of the Church of England says: Whosoever shall hereafter affirm that the king’s majesty hath not the … Continue reading “Supremacy, Royal”

Supremacy, Papal The papists claim for the See of Rome, represented in the person of the pope, a principality of power over all others, as the mother and mistress of all Christian churches; and all other patriarchs are required to receive their palls from the Roman pontiff. This doctrine is chiefly built on the supposed … Continue reading “Supremacy, Papal”

SUPREMACY OF THE POPE A doctrine held by the Roman Catholics, who believe that the bishop of Rome is, uner Christ, supreme pastor of the whole church; and, as such, is not only the first bishop in order and dignity, but has also a power and jurisdiction over all Christians. This doctrine is chiefly built … Continue reading “SUPREMACY OF THE POPE”

SUPREMACY, OATH OF See OATH. Fuente: Theological Dictionary

SUPREMACY, GRANTED TO CERTAIN MEN Gen 25:23; Gen 27:29; Gen 37:7; Gen 48:19; Gen 49:8 Fuente: Thompson Chain-Reference Bible

Supremacy SUPREMACY.Few things are more remarkable in the Gospels than the absolute supremacy over nature and man which Christ is represented as both claiming and exercising. In this respect the Synoptics bear, if anything, a more striking witness than the Fourth Gospel. Christ appears from first to last as exercising lordship over matter and natural … Continue reading “Supremacy”

Supramanya a Hind deva, son of Siva, and sprung from the eye in the forehead of that god. He fought the giant Sura Parma, and with the most powerful weapon of his father split him in two, after seven days of battle. The festival Kandershasta is celebrated in his honor. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological … Continue reading “Supramanya”

SUPRALAPSARIANS Persons who hold that God, without any regard to the good or evil works of men, has resolved, by an eternal decree, supra lapsum, antecedently to any knowledge of the fall of Adam, and independently of it, to save some and reject others: or, in other words, that God intended to glorify his justice … Continue reading “Supralapsarians”

Supralapsarianism (Lat. supra, before; and lapsus, the Fall of man) The theological view that God positively decreed the Fall of man as a means to the manifestation of His Power of salvation, attributed to Calvinism but opposed by some “Infralapsarian” Calvinists. See Predestination. — V.J.B. Fuente: The Dictionary of Philosophy

Suppression of Monasteries in England From any point of view the destruction of the English monasteries by Henry VIII must be regarded as one of the great events of the sixteenth century. They were looked upon in England, at the time of Henry’s breach with Rome, as one of the great bulwarks of the papal … Continue reading “Suppression of Monasteries in England”