Encyclopedic Dictionary of Bible and Theology

Submission To authority, Jesus an example of Mat 26:39; Mat 26:42; Mar 14:36; Luk 22:42; Heb 5:8 Of Paul 1Co 16:7 Obedience Fuente: Nave’s Topical Bible

Subliminal (Lat. sub. under + limen, the threshold) Term popularized by F. Myers to describe allegedly unconscious mental processes especially sensations which lie below the threshold of consciousness. See Unconscious Mind. — L.W. Fuente: The Dictionary of Philosophy

Sublimation (Lat. sublimatio, from sublimare, to elevete, lift up) The psychological mechanism, described by Freudians, which consists in the discovery of a substitute object for the expression of a basic instinct or feeling, e.g., the sublimation of the sex impulses in aesthetic creation — L.W. Fuente: The Dictionary of Philosophy

Subleyras, Pierre a French painter and engraver, was born at Uzes in 1699, and was the son of Matthieu Subleyras, a painter of considerable merit. Pierre, at the age of fourteen, went to Toulouse in order to receive lessons from Antoine Rivalx. In 1724 he went to Paris, took the course in the Academy, and … Continue reading “Subleyras, Pierre”

Sublapsarians, or Infralapsarians is the name given by the orthodox Reformed theologians to those who consider the divine decree of election as dependent upon that which permitted the introduction of evil. The supralapsarians, on the contrary, consider the decree of election, or of predestination to eternal salvation or damnation, as the original decree upon which … Continue reading “Sublapsarians, or Infralapsarians”

SUBLAPSARIANS Those who hold that God permitted the first man to fall into transgression without absolutely predetermining his fall; or that the decree of predestination regards man as fallen, by an abuse of that freedom which Adam had, into a state in which all were to be left to necessary and unavoidable ruin, who were … Continue reading “SUBLAPSARIANS”

Subjects See Citizens; Government; Patriotism; Rulers Citizens; Government; Patriotism; Rulers Fuente: Nave’s Topical Bible

Subjectivisma) In Epistemology The restriction of knowledge to the knowing subject and its sensory, affective ind volitional states and to such external realities as may be inferred from the mind’s subjective states. See Solipsism, Ego-centric Predicament. b) In AxiologyThe doctrine that moral and aesthetic values represent the subjective feelings and reactions of individual minds and … Continue reading “Subjectivisma) In Epistemology”

Subjectivism, epistemological Doctrine contending that every object apprehended is created, constructed by the apprehender. (Montague). — H.H. Fuente: The Dictionary of Philosophy

Subjectivism the doctrine of Kant that all human knowledge is merely relative, or, rather, that we cannot prove it to be absolute. According to him we cannot objectify the subjective; that is, we cannot prove that what appears true to us must appear true to all intelligent beings; or that, with different faculties, what now … Continue reading “Subjectivism”