Equivalent to obedient, dependent, responsible for their work, but linked to a quality educational task, although dependent on authority.
The term submission implies a certain humility and the acceptance of someone who is above and from whom the educator feels sent and subsidiary. It is the authority that demands simplicity and delivery of the judgment itself, since the students are not offered their own message, but rather the one received from Someone superior who sends
It is the opposite of rebellious, autonomous and independent, who gets along so well with science or culture.
It is a good quality of the educator, especially the one who collaborates in Christian education. But it should not be identified with the parallel concept of excessive subjection, subordination or dependence without more. The educator has to be free enough to think on his own and has to practice submission as a virtue, not as poverty.
Pedro Chico González, Dictionary of Catechesis and Religious Pedagogy, Editorial Bruño, Lima, Peru 2006
Source: Dictionary of Catechesis and Religious Pedagogy
(-> faith, love, service). Christianity is not a religion of submission to God, as perhaps Islam is, but an experience of love for God and neighbor. In any case, there is in Christianity an element of submission that is based on the behavior of Christ, who did not violently rebel against authority, but submitted by allowing himself to be killed. In this line, one can speak of a political submission, “submit every person to the constituted authorities…” (Rom 13,1), and of a mutual submission, of a personal and reversible nature, that is, that it goes in both directions, from faith in Christ, within marriage: submit to one another, in the love of Christ” (Eph 5,1). At a given moment, the same Pauline tradition has been able to invoke this principle of subjection that is no longer reversible, thus ratifying a hierarchical social order in which some are subject to others, as the domestic codes* of the pastoral letters suppose (patriarchalism* ). In any case, the New Testament as a whole is not a text of submission, but rather the opposite: a text of freedom and mutual love, as the texts of Paul (Gal, Rom) and the Gospels, especially the Gospels, have impressively highlighted. give me. Submission as a “theological” principle has entered later Christianity, from sources contrary to the spirit of the Bible, such as the First Letter of Clement*.
PIKAZA, Javier, Dictionary of the Bible. History and Word, Divine Word, Navarra 2007
Source: Dictionary of Bible History and Word
Action of subordinating the judgment, decision or own affections to those of other people, or to abide by and obey the law or a certain system of things. Some examples of submission are: that of Jesus Christ to his Father (1Co 15:27, 28), of the Christian congregation to Jesus (Eph 5:24) and to God (Heb 12:9; Jas 4:7), of Christians to those who take the lead in the congregation (1Co 16:15, 16; Heb 13:17, note; 1Pe 5:5), from the Christian women to the established order of teaching in the congregation (1Ti 2:11), from the slaves to their owners (Tit 2:9; 1Pe 2:18), from wives to their husbands (Eph 5:22; Col 3:18; Tit 2:5; 1Pe 3:1, 5), from children to their fathers (1Ti 3:4; compare Lu 2:51; Eph 6:1) and from subjects to rulers or higher authorities. (Ro 13:1, 5; Tit 3:1; 1Pe 2:13; see SUPERIOR AUTHORITIES; HEADSHIP; OBEDIENCE.)
The submission or subjection of a Christian to humans involves the conscience and is determined by his relationship with God. Therefore, when submission involved compromising or violating divine law, God should be obeyed rather than men. (Ac 5:29) Accordingly, Paul and Barnabas “did not yield in submission” ™ to the false brothers, who, contrary to God’s revealed purpose, advocated circumcision and adherence to the Mosaic law as requirements for salvation. (Ga 2:3-5; compare Ac 15:1, 24-29.)
Contributions made on behalf of fellow Christians in need are shown at 2 Corinthians 9:13 to be proof of a person’s submission to the good news, for it is a Christian obligation to help fellow believers in need. (Jas 1:26, 27; 2:14-17)
Source: Dictionary of the Bible