Doctrine Analysis
Doctrine Analysis — 1 Corinthians | English → Bavarian
Purpose
This document is the full doctrine matrix for the 1 Corinthians curriculum, required by PRD Phase 1 Step 5. It is generated to be fully consistent with assets/doctrine_risk_registry.json: every doctrine name, risk tier, and review-routing decision below matches that registry exactly. This file adds two things the registry does not itself provide in narrative form: (1) an explicit mapping of every doctrine to the ten curriculum doctrines named in the curriculum parameters, and (2) a chapter-by-chapter walkthrough of all sixteen chapters of 1 Corinthians, so that full-book coverage is demonstrated and no chapter’s doctrinal content is silently skipped, even though the core passage (15:1-11) remains the theological anchor.
Method
Each row below reproduces the risk, primary_passages, and review_routing fields verbatim from doctrine_risk_registry.json, adds a curriculum-category mapping, and summarizes the bavarian_risk_notes field as a “Translation Risk” column. Doctrines already established in the baseline Romans package (grace, faith, sanctification, sainthood, spiritual_gifts, christian_fellowship, mutual_edification, thanksgiving, lordship_of_christ, resurrection_of_christ [tier re-assessed], church_as_gods_people, divine_calling) are marked “Baseline (re-scoped for 1 Cor)” in the category column where they recur as their own line item, in addition to being cross-referenced under the curriculum doctrine they support.
Full Doctrine Matrix
| # | Doctrine | Curriculum Category | Bavarian Doctrine Name | Risk | Primary Passages (1 Corinthians) | Translation Risk Summary | Review Routing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Apostolic Gospel Tradition (Received and Delivered) | The Resurrection of Christ and Believers | d’apostolische Überliaferung vom Evangelium | Critical | 15:1-3 | Collides with Bavarian Catholicism’s own positive category of sacred Tradition; must land on Paul’s closed, fixed apostolic eyewitness content, not open-ended ongoing ecclesiastical Tradition. | Human theologian |
| 2 | Resurrection of Christ | The Resurrection of Christ and Believers | d’Aufersteh’ng vom Christus | Critical | 15:3-8, 15:20 | Tier raised from baseline’s Medium (Romans) to Critical here, since this is the core passage’s anchor doctrine. ὤφθη must be a verb of bodily encounter (“hat si zoagt”), never the noun “Erscheinung” (Marian-apparition/ghost-sighting default). | Human theologian |
| 3 | Resurrection of Believers | The Resurrection of Christ and Believers | d’Aufersteh’ng vo de Gläubign | Critical | 15:12-58 | Denial of this doctrine destroys the gospel per Paul’s own argument (15:12-19); “spiritual body” intersects with the geistlich/clergy collision risk — must read as a real transformed physical body, not a disembodied or clerical sense of “spiritual.” | Human theologian |
| 4 | Victory Over Death | The Resurrection of Christ and Believers | da Sieg über’n Tod | High | 15:42-58 | Climactic doxological payoff of the core doctrine; vocabulary itself is stable/low-collision, but the whole passage’s triumphant, historically-grounded tone must not be flattened into generic comfort language. | Human theologian |
| 5 | Christian Unity versus Factionalism | Christian Unity versus Factionalism | d’kristliche Oanheit gegn Spaltung | High | 1:10-17; 3:1-9; 11:18-19; 12:12-27 | Bavaria’s own Reformation-era confessional split gives “Spaltung” unusually loaded historical resonance beyond the baseline’s general Romans risk; must read as personality-driven intra-congregational rivalry, not an echo of that schism. | Human theologian |
| 6 | Church as God’s People | Christian Unity versus Factionalism | d’Kirch als Volk vo Gott | High | 1:2; 12:27-28; 16:19 | Baseline doctrine reused; “Kirch” defaults to the physical parish building/Kirchweih identity, not the NT gathered-people sense; must be distinguished from the related but distinct “Tempel” (temple) metaphor of ch.3 and 6. | Human theologian |
| 7 | Divine Calling | Christian Unity versus Factionalism / Marriage and Singleness | Gottes Beruafung | Medium | 1:1-2,9,24,26; 7:15-24 | Baseline doctrine reused; 7:15-24’s application to marital/social circumstance sharpens the everyday career-vocation homonym risk already documented for Romans. | Native speaker review |
| 8 | Mutual Edification | Christian Unity versus Factionalism / Order in Worship | d’gegenseitige Erbauung | Low | 3:9-15; 14:1-40 | Baseline doctrine reused; governing criterion for regulating spiritual gifts in ch.14. No significant doctrinal risk. | Automated review |
| 9 | The Cross as Wisdom and Power | The Cross as Wisdom and Power | s’Kreuz als Weisheit und Kraft | High | 1:18-25; 2:1-5 | Bavarian folk-Catholic visual saturation (Herrgottswinkel, Wegkreuz) risks “the word of the cross” being heard as reference to a familiar devotional object rather than the specific doctrine of Christ’s atoning death as paradoxical divine wisdom/power. | Human theologian |
| 10 | Spirit-Revealed Wisdom and Mystery | The Cross as Wisdom and Power | d’vom Geist offenbarte Weisheit | Medium | 2:6-16 | ”Geheimnis” risks folk-secrecy connotation; “Mysterium” risks pulling toward the sacramental/liturgical register; must anchor to God’s wisdom now revealed in the crucified Christ. | Native speaker review |
| 11 | Grace | The Cross as Wisdom and Power / cross-cutting | d’Gnad | High | 1:4; 3:10; 15:10; 16:23 | Baseline doctrine reused. 15:10 attributes Paul’s entire apostolic identity/labor to grace alone; the baseline’s devotional-transaction risk (pilgrimage vows, votive offerings) must not bleed into this explicit grace-versus-merit contrast. | Human theologian |
| 12 | Apostolic Ministry and Stewardship | The Cross as Wisdom and Power | s’apostolische Amt als Verwaltung | Medium | 3:5–4:21 | Register-gap terms with fairly transparent equivalents; primary risk is not confusing 4:15’s pastoral fatherhood with God’s unique Fatherhood. | Native speaker review |
| 13 | Church Discipline | Church Discipline and Holiness | d’kirchliche Zucht | High | 5:1-13 | Catholic tradition’s own excommunication vocabulary (“Bann”) could over- or under-color “an’n Satan ausliefern,” detaching it from Paul’s stated restorative purpose. | Human theologian |
| 14 | Holiness and Sexual Ethics | Church Discipline and Holiness | d’Heiligkeit und d’sittliche Reinheit | High | 5:1-13; 6:9-20 | ”Unzucht” must not be softened or narrowed; “fleischlich” risks a narrower sexual-appetite reading than Paul’s broader worldly-immaturity sense elsewhere. | Human theologian |
| 15 | Christ Our Passover | Church Discipline and Holiness | Christus, unser Passahlamm | Critical | 5:6-8 | Requires explicit OT Exodus-Passover background for an audience whose liturgical calendar centers on Ostern without a lived Passover reference point; risk of collapse into generic Easter association without the sacrificial-lamb typology. | Human theologian |
| 16 | The Church and the Believer’s Body as Temple of God | Church Discipline and Holiness | d’Kirch und da Leib als Tempel vo Gott | Critical | 3:16-17; 6:19-20 | Requires “Tempel,” not “Kirch,” precisely because “Kirch” defaults to the parish building; must confirm the indwelling-presence meaning (corporate in ch.3, individual in ch.6) rather than a mere architectural comparison. | Human theologian |
| 17 | Redemption: Bought with a Price | Church Discipline and Holiness | d’Erlesung um an teuern Preis | High | 6:19-20; 7:23 | Bare commercial “erkaaft” risks flattening the costly, self-sacrificial sense; must be conceptually tied to baseline salvation = Erlösung despite differing vocabulary. | Human theologian |
| 18 | Sainthood (Called to be Holy) | Church Discipline and Holiness / cross-cutting | d’Heiligkeit vo alle Gläubign | High | 1:2; 6:1-2; 16:1,15 | Baseline doctrine reused. Rural patron-saint/Namenstag culture makes “de Heiling” default to venerated canonized figures, not Paul’s corporate every-believer sense, including at 6:1-2’s “the saints will judge the world.” | Human theologian |
| 19 | Sanctification | Church Discipline and Holiness / cross-cutting | d’Heiligung | Medium | 1:2,30; 6:11 | Baseline doctrine reused. 6:11 grounds new identity in completed, Spirit-given sanctification despite behavioral immaturity; must not read as self-directed moral self-improvement. | Native speaker review |
| 20 | Marriage and Singleness | Marriage and Singleness | d’Ehe und s’Oanigsei | High | 7:1-40 | ”Jungfrau” carries a strong default association with the Virgin Mary given Altötting-anchored Marian devotion; Paul’s generic pastoral category in 7:25-38 risks a Marian devotional reading without clarifying context. | Human theologian |
| 21 | Spiritual Gifts | Marriage and Singleness / Spiritual Gifts and the Body of Christ / cross-cutting | d’Gnodngob’n | Medium | 1:7; 7:7; 12:1-31; 14:1-40 | Baseline doctrine reused. 7:7 extends the concept to marriage/singleness itself as a grace-given calling; must remain explicitly grace-given, not natural talent or personality. | Native speaker review |
| 22 | Christian Liberty and Conscience | Christian Liberty and Idol Meat | d’kristliche Freiheit und s’Gwissn | Medium | 8:1-13; 10:23-33 | ”Wissn,” “Gwissn,” “Anstoß” are fairly transparent; primary care is preserving the sharp knowledge-vs-love contrast fully developed in ch.13. | Native speaker review |
| 23 | Christian Liberty and Idol Meat (Idolatry) | Christian Liberty and Idol Meat | da Götzendienst und s’Götzenopferfleisch | Critical | 8:1-13; 10:14-22 | Single highest-stakes cultural-collision doctrine: Bavarian folk-devotional use of saints’ images/statues (Marterl, Herrgottswinkel) means “Götzenbild”/“Götzendienst” must never be read, even by implication, as commentary on Catholic image veneration — a live Reformation-era iconoclasm flashpoint. | Human theologian |
| 24 | Apostolic Self-Denial as a Model of Liberty | Christian Liberty and Idol Meat | d’apostolische Selbstverleugnung | Medium | 9:1-27 | Paul voluntarily surrenders legitimate rights, modeling ch.8’s liberty-limited-by-love principle; athletic imagery is culturally transparent. | Native speaker review |
| 25 | Old Testament Warning as Typology | Christian Liberty and Idol Meat | d’Warnung durch’s Alte Testament | Medium | 10:1-13 | ”Vorbild” usually carries a positive connotation; context must clarify Israel’s wilderness failures function as a cautionary warning-pattern, not a model to imitate. | Native speaker review |
| 26 | Lordship of Christ | Christian Liberty and Idol Meat / Spiritual Gifts and the Body of Christ / cross-cutting | d’Herrschaft vom Christus | Critical | 8:6; 12:3; 16:22 | Tier raised from baseline’s High (Romans) to Critical: 8:6’s “one Lord” and 12:3’s confession test directly polemicize against Corinth’s plurality of pagan “lords.” Softening exclusivity here risks reintroducing the very competing-lordship framework Paul refutes. | Human theologian |
| 27 | The Lord’s Supper | The Lord’s Supper | s’Herrnmahl | Critical | 10:16-21; 11:17-34 | Single highest-stakes doctrine in the entire curriculum: collides directly with the fully developed Mass/Eucharist tradition (transubstantiation, Real Presence), not merely a register gap. Requires a dedicated translator’s note distinguishing shared ground from active denominational difference, without adjudicating the debate. | Human theologian |
| 28 | Christian Fellowship | The Lord’s Supper / cross-cutting | d’kristliche Gmoaschaft | High | 1:9; 10:16-20; 12:13 | Tier raised from baseline’s Medium (Romans) to High: 10:16-20 uses this term for participation in Christ’s body/blood via the Supper, contrasted with pagan demon-participation — a specifically Eucharistic-weighted occurrence requiring review alongside the Lord’s Supper doctrine. | Human theologian |
| 29 | Order in Worship: Headship and Head Coverings | Order in Worship | d’Ordnung im Gottesdienst und s’Haupt-Sei | High | 11:2-16 | Theologically/culturally sensitive gender-order doctrine; the head-covering custom has an unusually strong living Bavarian cultural anchor (pre-Vatican-II headscarf/veil practice), reducing pure register-gap risk but raising the command-vs-cultural-application question for Phase 3 teaching, not translation. | Human theologian |
| 30 | Spiritual Gifts and the Body of Christ | Spiritual Gifts and the Body of Christ | d’Gnodngob’n und da Leib vom Christus | High | 12:1-31 | The πνευματικός/geistlich family collides with the everyday word for a priest/clergyman (“der Geistliche”), risking a clerical-office misreading of Paul’s every-believer sense; reuse “Leib vom Christus” verbatim per the baseline Romans-12 cross-reference. | Human theologian |
| 31 | Faith | Spiritual Gifts and the Body of Christ / Love as the Greater Way / cross-cutting | da Glaam | Medium | 2:5; 12:9; 13:2,13; 15:1-11,14,17 | Baseline doctrine reused. 15:2’s continuous-aspect “you are being saved… if you hold fast” must not collapse ongoing saving faith into a single past transaction. | Native speaker review |
| 32 | The Gifts of Tongues and Prophecy | Spiritual Gifts and the Body of Christ | d’Gob vo de Zungenred und d’Weissogung | Critical | 12:10,28,30; 14:1-40 | Double risk: (1) register-gap — no lived Bavarian Catholic liturgical experience of glossolalia; (2) lexical collision — bare “Zunge” defaults to ordinary body-part/language sense, so the compound phrase must always be used. | Human theologian |
| 33 | Love as the Greater Way | Love as the Greater Way | d’Liab als da größere Weg | Critical | 13:1-13 | Everyday Bavarian “Liab” covers romantic, familial, and general affection without distinction — the risk here is an over-familiar native word working against the doctrinal content, not an unfamiliar borrowed one; treat with the rigor the baseline applies to “grace.” | Human theologian |
| 34 | Order in Worship (General Assembly Conduct) | Order in Worship | d’Ordnung beim Gottesdienst | High | 14:26-40 | 14:34-35’s instruction on women’s silence is contested and exegetically debated; render literally and let accompanying teaching material, not the translation, carry interpretive nuance. | Human theologian |
| 35 | Thanksgiving | Order in Worship / cross-cutting | da Dank | Low | 1:4,14; 14:16-18 | Baseline doctrine reused. Standard term, no significant risk. | Automated review |
| 36 | Christian Giving (The Collection) | Closing Exhortations | d’kristliche Freigebigkeit | Low | 16:1-4 | ”Kollekte” is familiar and positively anchored via the Mass’s own regular collection practice. | Automated review |
| 37 | Maranatha and the Second Coming | Closing Exhortations | Maranatha und Christus sei Wiederkumft | Medium | 16:22 | Retain transliterated “Marana tha” per baseline’s Aramaic-retention pattern (abba = Abba); gloss briefly at first occurrence so the urgent prayer for Christ’s return is not lost. | Native speaker review |
| 38 | Anathema: The Closing Warning | Closing Exhortations | da Anathema-Fluch zum Schluss | High | 16:22 | German/Bavarian ecclesiastical “Bann” vocabulary risks over-formalizing Paul’s brief closing warning into a technical canonical procedure rather than his urgent, personal appeal. | Human theologian |
Chapter-by-Chapter Doctrinal Coverage (Full-Book Mandate)
Every chapter of 1 Corinthians is reviewed below. Where a chapter’s content is already fully captured by doctrines documented elsewhere in the matrix, that chapter is marked “reviewed — no additional doctrine” rather than omitted.
| Ch. | Active Doctrines (matrix #) | Coverage Note |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 18, 21, 28, 35 | Opening greeting establishes calling, sainthood, grace, thanksgiving, and immediately introduces the factionalism/cross-wisdom themes that dominate chs. 1-4. |
| 2 | 9, 10, 11, 31 | Cross as folly-to-the-world/wisdom-of-God argument continues; Spirit-revealed wisdom introduced. |
| 3 | 5, 12, 16, 11, 8 | Factional “of Paul / of Apollos” rivalry; stewardship/building metaphor; first Temple-indwelling statement (corporate, 3:16-17). |
| 4 | 12 | Continuation of apostolic ministry/stewardship; reviewed — no additional new doctrine beyond #12. |
| 5 | 13, 14, 15 | Church discipline case study; incest scandal; Christ-our-Passover leaven metaphor. |
| 6 | 16, 17, 14, 18, 19 | Lawsuits among believers (sainthood/corporate identity); individual-body Temple statement; sexual ethics vice list; “bought with a price.” |
| 7 | 20, 7, 21 | Marriage, singleness, “remain as called,” gifts extended to marital state. |
| 8 | 22, 23, 26 | Idol meat/liberty/conscience introduced; “one Lord” confession against pagan plurality. |
| 9 | 24 | Apostolic self-denial as a model of voluntarily limited liberty; reviewed — no additional new doctrine. |
| 10 | 25, 27, 23, 28 | OT wilderness warning typology; first direct Lord’s-Table language contrasted with pagan sacrificial meals. |
| 11 | 29, 27, 5 | Head-covering/headship instruction; full Lord’s Supper institution-and-abuse passage; disorderly divisions at the Table. |
| 12 | 30, 26, 6, 28, 5, 31, 32 | Spiritual gifts as one Spirit’s varied manifestations; body-of-Christ unity metaphor; confession test; tongues/prophecy first listed among gifts. |
| 13 | 33, 31 | Love chapter; reviewed as the curriculum’s own doctrinal peak — no additional new doctrine beyond #33/#31. |
| 14 | 32, 34, 8, 35, 21 | Tongues and prophecy regulated for edification; general worship-order instructions, including the contested women’s-silence passage. |
| 15 | 1, 2, 3, 4, 11, 31 | Core passage (15:1-11) plus the full resurrection argument through the chapter’s end; victory-over-death doxology. |
| 16 | 36, 37, 38, 6, 11, 18 | Collection instructions; closing greetings; Maranatha; anathema warning; final grace benediction. |
Full-book coverage confirmed: all sixteen chapters contribute directly to at least one cataloged doctrine; no chapter is silently omitted. Chapters 4, 9, and 13 are noted above as continuing or crystallizing doctrines already introduced elsewhere rather than introducing wholly new ones, and are recorded as explicitly reviewed for that reason.
Risk Tier Summary
(Reproduced verbatim from assets/doctrine_risk_registry.json for consistency; see that file as the authoritative source of record.)
| Risk Tier | Count | Review Routing |
|---|---|---|
| Critical | 9 (per registry risk_summary; see note below) | Human theologian, every occurrence |
| High | 15 | Human theologian |
| Medium | 11 | Native speaker review |
| Low | 3 | Automated review (native-speaker orthography spot-check still required per baseline convention) |
| Total requiring theologian review | 24 | — |
| Total requiring native-speaker review | 11 | — |
| Total automated-only | 3 | — |
Note on tier counting: a line-by-line count of the 38 doctrine entries in this matrix (matching each entry’s individual risk field) yields 10 Critical / 15 High / 10 Medium / 3 Low. This differs by one entry each from the registry’s own aggregated risk_summary totals (9/15/11/3). Per-doctrine risk tiers in the matrix above are, per the task mandate, reproduced exactly as recorded per-entry in doctrine_risk_registry.json and are therefore authoritative; the aggregate summary table is reproduced as-is from the registry for traceability, and this discrepancy is flagged here for correction at the next registry version increment rather than silently resolved.
This document extends, and does not contradict, assets/doctrine_risk_registry.json, the baseline Romans doctrine_risk_registry.json, and analysis/08_core_glossary.md. See analysis/04_comparative_theology.md for cross-tradition interpretive analysis of the ten curriculum doctrines.
Critical Risk Doctrines
Apostolic Gospel Tradition (Received and Delivered)
Bavarian name: d’apostolische Überliaferung vom Evangelium
Key terms: received, delivered, gospel, of first importance
Review routing: Human theologian
CRITICAL: the technical receive/deliver (paralambanō/paradidōmi) formula collides with Bavarian Catholic culture’s own strong, positive category of sacred Tradition alongside Scripture. This can helpfully anchor the idea of fixed, authoritative content, but reviewers must ensure it lands specifically on Paul’s closed apostolic eyewitness testimony to Christ’s death, burial, and resurrection, not an open-ended, ongoing ecclesiastical Tradition.
Resurrection of Christ
Bavarian name: d’Aufersteh’ng vom Christus
Key terms: raised, resurrection, appeared, third day
Review routing: Human theologian
Risk tier elevated from the baseline’s Medium rating to Critical for this curriculum, since Christ’s resurrection is the direct theological anchor of the whole book’s core passage. The resurrection-appearance verb ὤφθη must be rendered as a verb of bodily encounter (‘hat si zoagt’), never as the noun ‘Erscheinung,’ which in Bavarian folk-Catholic usage strongly defaults to Marian apparitions or ghost sightings rather than a real, physical, historical event witnessed by named, checkable people.
Resurrection of Believers
Bavarian name: d’Aufersteh’ng vo de Gläubign
Key terms: resurrection of the dead, firstfruits, spiritual body, imperishable
Review routing: Human theologian
CRITICAL: Paul argues that denying believers’ future bodily resurrection destroys the gospel itself (15:12-19). The ‘spiritual body’ (σῶμα πνευματικόν) terminology directly intersects with the ‘geistlich’ clergy-collision risk documented for spiritual gifts, so reviewers must confirm the resurrection body is understood as a real, transformed physical body, not a disembodied ‘spiritual’ (in the clerical or ghostly sense) existence.
The Church and the Believer’s Body as Temple of God
Bavarian name: d’Kirch und da Leib als Tempel vo Gott
Key terms: temple of God, temple of the Holy Spirit, body, indwelling
Review routing: Human theologian
CRITICAL: the metaphor requires ‘Tempel’ rather than ‘Kirch,’ precisely because the baseline documents ‘Kirch’ as defaulting overwhelmingly to the physical parish building and its Kirchweih festival identity in everyday Bavarian usage. Even using ‘Tempel,’ reviewers must confirm the indwelling-presence meaning — corporately in chapter 3 and individually in chapter 6, grounding sexual ethics in the body’s sacred status — comes through rather than a mere architectural comparison.
Christ Our Passover
Bavarian name: Christus, unser Passahlamm
Key terms: Passover, unleavened, leaven, sacrificed
Review routing: Human theologian
CRITICAL: requires explicit Old Testament Exodus-Passover background for a Bavarian Catholic audience whose liturgical calendar centers on Easter (Ostern) without a lived Passover reference point; the sacrificial-lamb typology risks being lost if ‘Passahlamm’ is simply absorbed into a generic Easter association without the OT background being supplied.
Christian Liberty and Idol Meat
Bavarian name: da Götzendienst und s’Götzenopferfleisch
Key terms: idol, idolatry, food sacrificed to idols, demon, table of the Lord
Review routing: Human theologian
CRITICAL — the single highest-stakes cultural-collision doctrine in this book: Bavarian Catholic folk-devotional culture makes heavy, positive use of religious images and statues (patron saints, Marterl wayside shrines, the Herrgottswinkel). ‘Götzenbild’/‘Götzendienst’ must be understood strictly as pagan idol-worship condemned in Scripture and must never be read, even by implication, as commentary on Catholic veneration of saints’ images or icons — a historically live Reformation-era iconoclasm controversy point specific to German-speaking Christianity. Mandatory theologian review for every occurrence.
The Lord’s Supper
Bavarian name: s’Herrnmahl
Key terms: Lord’s Supper, remembrance, body, blood, new covenant, unworthily
Review routing: Human theologian
CRITICAL — the single highest-stakes doctrine in the entire curriculum: unlike register-gap doctrines with no competing Bavarian tradition, this collides directly with a fully developed, doctrinally load-bearing competing tradition — the Catholic Mass (Eucharist), with its theology of transubstantiation and Real Presence. A Bavarian Catholic audience’s default frame for the institution words (‘des is mei Leib… des is mei Bluat’) is almost certain to be read through Mass/Eucharistic categories rather than (or in addition to) Paul’s ‘remembrance’ framing. Mandatory theologian review for every occurrence; a dedicated translator’s note distinguishing shared ground (real spiritual significance, corporate remembrance) from points of active denominational difference (the nature of Christ’s presence) is recommended, without adjudicating that debate within the translation itself.
The Gifts of Tongues and Prophecy
Bavarian name: d’Gob vo de Zungenred und d’Weissogung
Key terms: tongues, interpretation of tongues, prophecy, edification
Review routing: Human theologian
CRITICAL, double risk: (1) register-gap — historic Bavarian Catholic liturgical tradition has no lived experience of glossolalia, unlike Pentecostal/charismatic contexts, so the concept itself needs explanation; (2) lexical collision — bare ‘Zunge’ defaults to the ordinary body-part/language sense in everyday Bavarian, so the compound phrase ‘in Zungen redn’ must always be used, never the bare noun, to avoid confusion.
Love as the Greater Way
Bavarian name: d’Liab als da größere Weg
Key terms: love, faith, hope, greatest
Review routing: Human theologian
CRITICAL: everyday Bavarian ‘Liab’ covers romantic love, family affection, and general fondness without distinction — exactly the conflation Paul’s ἀγάπη resists. Unlike most register-gap terms in this book, the risk here is not an unfamiliar borrowed word but an over-familiar native one that actively works against the doctrinal content required; the chapter’s own extensive behavioral definition must be leaned on heavily in surrounding teaching material. Treat with the same rigor the baseline applies to ‘grace.‘
Lordship of Christ
Bavarian name: d’Herrschaft vom Christus
Key terms: lord, one Lord, Jesus is Lord, Maranatha
Review routing: Human theologian
Risk elevated from the baseline’s High rating to Critical for this curriculum: 8:6’s ‘one Lord, Jesus Christ’ and 12:3’s confession test are direct polemics against the plurality of ‘lords’ in the Corinthian pagan environment. Softening the exclusivity here risks reintroducing precisely the competing-lordship framework Paul is refuting, a sharper stake than the baseline’s general Romans usage anticipated.
High Risk Doctrines
Christian Unity versus Factionalism
Bavarian name: d’kristliche Oanheit gegn Spaltung
Key terms: division, schism, strife, body of Christ, members
Review routing: Human theologian
HIGH RISK: Bavaria’s own confessional history — the Reformation-era Catholic/Protestant split running through German-speaking lands — gives ‘Spaltung’ unusually loaded historical resonance, distinct from and in addition to the risk documented in the baseline Romans package for the same term family; reviewers must ensure the rendering reads as personality-driven intra-congregational rivalry, not an echo of that confessional schism.
The Cross as Wisdom and Power
Bavarian name: s’Kreuz als Weisheit und Kraft
Key terms: cross, wisdom, foolishness, power of God
Review routing: Human theologian
HIGH RISK: Bavarian folk-Catholic visual culture is saturated with crucifix imagery (the Herrgottswinkel devotional corner, roadside Wegkreuz shrines, documented in the baseline). ‘The word of the cross’ risks being heard as a reference to a familiar decorative or devotional object rather than the specific doctrinal content — Christ’s substitutionary atoning death — Paul is proclaiming as paradoxical divine wisdom and power.
Church Discipline
Bavarian name: d’kirchliche Zucht
Key terms: deliver to Satan, put out, judging
Review routing: Human theologian
HIGH RISK: Catholic tradition’s own formal excommunication vocabulary (‘Bann’) could helpfully or unhelpfully color ‘an’n Satan ausliefern’ with purely institutional-canonical overtones, detached from Paul’s stated restorative purpose (the offender’s ultimate salvation, not vindictive punishment).
Holiness and Sexual Ethics
Bavarian name: d’Heiligkeit und d’sittliche Reinheit
Key terms: sexual immorality, fleshly, temple of the Holy Spirit, bought with a price
Review routing: Human theologian
HIGH RISK: ‘Unzucht’ must not be softened or narrowed given the specificity of the incest case in chapter 5 and the broader vice-list in 6:9-11; ‘fleischlich’ additionally risks a narrower sexual-appetite reading than Paul’s broader worldly-immaturity sense elsewhere in the book, requiring careful contextual disambiguation.
Redemption: Bought with a Price
Bavarian name: d’Erlesung um an teuern Preis
Key terms: bought, price, not your own, glorify God in your body
Review routing: Human theologian
HIGH RISK: a bare commercial ‘erkaaft’ (‘bought,’ as in an ordinary purchase) risks flattening the costly, self-sacrificial redemption sense; must be conceptually tied to the baseline’s salvation = Erlösung doctrine even though the specific vocabulary differs.
Marriage and Singleness
Bavarian name: d’Ehe und s’Oanigsei
Key terms: marriage, virgin, gift, freedom
Review routing: Human theologian
HIGH RISK: ‘Jungfrau’ carries a strong default association with the Virgin Mary given the intensity of Bavarian Marian devotion anchored at the national shrine of Altötting (documented in the baseline); Paul’s generic pastoral category for any unmarried woman in 7:25-38 risks being read through a Marian devotional lens without clarifying context at each occurrence.
Order in Worship: Headship and Head Coverings
Bavarian name: d’Ordnung im Gottesdienst und s’Haupt-Sei
Key terms: head, head covering, glory, authority
Review routing: Human theologian
HIGH RISK: the ‘Haupt’ headship metaphor is theologically and culturally sensitive gender-order doctrine requiring accurate, non-editorializing rendering. The head-covering custom itself has an unusually strong living cultural anchor in Bavaria — pre-Vatican-II Catholic women commonly wore headscarves/veils to Mass — which reduces pure register-gap risk but raises the pastoral question (for Phase 3 teaching material, not the translation) of command versus culturally-bound application.
Spiritual Gifts and the Body of Christ
Bavarian name: d’Gnodngob’n und da Leib vom Christus
Key terms: spiritual gifts, body of Christ, members, baptized in one Spirit, spiritual person
Review routing: Human theologian
HIGH RISK: the ‘πνευματικός/geistlich’ term family collides directly with the everyday German/Bavarian word for a priest or clergyman (‘der Geistliche’), risking a clerical-office misreading of Paul’s every-believer sense; the body-of-Christ metaphor itself should reuse ‘Leib vom Christus’ exactly as anticipated in the baseline AI instruction set’s Romans-12 cross-reference for full cross-curriculum consistency.
Order in Worship (General Assembly Conduct)
Bavarian name: d’Ordnung beim Gottesdienst
Key terms: order, edification, interpret, women keep silence
Review routing: Human theologian
HIGH RISK: 14:34-35’s instruction on women’s silence in the assembly is a contested, exegetically debated passage whose precise scope is disputed; render literally and let accompanying teaching material, not the translation itself, carry the necessary interpretive nuance.
Victory Over Death
Bavarian name: da Sieg über’n Tod
Key terms: death, victory, sting, imperishable, last Adam
Review routing: Human theologian
HIGH RISK: this is the climactic doxological payoff of the curriculum’s central doctrine (the resurrection); although the individual vocabulary items (‘Tod,’ ‘Sieg,’ ‘Stachel’) are stable and low-collision, the doctrinal stakes of the whole passage require theologian-level review to ensure the triumphant, historically-grounded tone is not flattened into generic comfort language.
Anathema: The Closing Warning
Bavarian name: da Anathema-Fluch zum Schluss
Key terms: accursed, anathema, love the Lord
Review routing: Human theologian
HIGH RISK: German/Bavarian ecclesiastical vocabulary has its own formal excommunication term (‘Bann’), which risks over-formalizing Paul’s brief closing warning into a technical canonical procedure rather than his urgent, personal appeal for genuine love for the Lord.
Grace
Bavarian name: d’Gnad
Key terms: grace, unmerited, labored, not in vain
Review routing: Human theologian
Reused from the baseline Romans registry. 1 Corinthians 15:10 attributes Paul’s entire apostolic identity and labor to grace alone — the baseline’s documented devotional-transaction risk (pilgrimage vows, votive offerings) must not bleed into this explicit grace-versus-merit contrast.
Sainthood (Called to be Holy)
Bavarian name: d’Heiligkeit vo alle Gläubign
Key terms: saints, holy ones, called
Review routing: Human theologian
Reused from the baseline Romans registry. Bavarian rural Catholic folk piety’s intense local patron-saint and Namenstag culture makes ‘de Heiling’ default overwhelmingly to venerated canonized figures, not Paul’s corporate sense of every believer, including at 6:1-2’s ‘the saints will judge the world.‘
Christian Fellowship
Bavarian name: d’kristliche Gmoaschaft
Key terms: fellowship, participation, share
Review routing: Human theologian
Risk elevated relative to the baseline’s Medium rating: 10:16-20 uses this term for participation in Christ’s body and blood through the Supper, contrasted with pagan participation with demons — a specifically Eucharistic-weighted occurrence not anticipated by the baseline’s general Romans usage, requiring review alongside the Lord’s Supper doctrine.
Church as God’s People
Bavarian name: d’Kirch als Volk vo Gott
Key terms: church, body of Christ, saints, assembly
Review routing: Human theologian
Reused from the baseline Romans registry. ‘Kirch’ defaults overwhelmingly to the physical parish building and its Kirchweih festival culture, not the NT gathered-people sense; distinguish carefully from the ‘Tempel’ metaphor of chapters 3 and 6, which makes a related but distinct indwelling-presence point.
Medium Risk Doctrines
Spirit-Revealed Wisdom and Mystery
Bavarian name: d’vom Geist offenbarte Weisheit
Key terms: mystery, natural person, spiritual person, mind of Christ
Review routing: Native speaker review
‘Geheimnis’ risks defaulting toward vague folk-secrecy, while the more formal ‘Mysterium’ risks pulling toward the specifically sacramental/liturgical register of Catholic usage; must be anchored explicitly to God’s wisdom now revealed in the crucified Christ, not an ongoing hidden rite for initiates.
Apostolic Ministry and Stewardship
Bavarian name: s’apostolische Amt als Verwaltung
Key terms: steward, building up, reward, spiritual fatherhood
Review routing: Native speaker review
‘Verwalter’ and ‘Voda’ (spiritual fatherhood, distinct from divine Fatherhood) are register-gap terms with fairly transparent Bavarian equivalents; primary risk is ensuring 4:15’s pastoral fatherhood is not doctrinally confused with God’s unique Fatherhood documented in the baseline’s father entry.
Christian Liberty and Conscience
Bavarian name: d’kristliche Freiheit und s’Gwissn
Key terms: freedom, conscience, knowledge, stumbling block, right
Review routing: Native speaker review
‘Wissn,’ ‘Gwissn,’ and ‘Anstoß’ are fairly transparent, low-collision Bavarian vocabulary; primary care needed is preserving the sharp contrast between knowledge (which puffs up) and love (which builds up), a contrast fully developed in chapter 13.
Apostolic Self-Denial as a Model of Liberty
Bavarian name: d’apostolische Selbstverleugnung
Key terms: right, authority, crown, self-discipline
Review routing: Native speaker review
Paul voluntarily surrenders legitimate rights for the gospel’s sake, modeling chapter 8’s liberty-limited-by-love principle; the athletic-competition imagery (‘Siegeskranz,’ ‘kämpfa’) is culturally transparent and low risk.
Old Testament Warning as Typology
Bavarian name: d’Warnung durch’s Alte Testament
Key terms: type, example, wilderness, idolatry
Review routing: Native speaker review
‘Vorbild’ usually carries a positive connotation in everyday Bavarian usage; context must clarify that Israel’s wilderness failures function here as a cautionary warning-pattern, not a model to imitate, requiring surrounding teaching material to supply the negative framing explicitly.
Maranatha and the Second Coming
Bavarian name: Maranatha und Christus sei Wiederkumft
Key terms: Maranatha, Lord, come, second coming
Review routing: Native speaker review
Retain the Aramaic transliteration ‘Marana tha’ as-is, following the baseline’s established pattern for Aramaic terms (‘abba = Abba’); gloss briefly with its meaning at first occurrence so the urgent prayer for Christ’s return is not lost.
Faith
Bavarian name: da Glaam
Key terms: faith, believe, trust, in vain
Review routing: Native speaker review
Reused from the baseline Romans registry. 15:2’s continuous-aspect ‘you are being saved… if you hold fast’ must not collapse the ongoing nature of saving faith into a single past transaction disconnected from present life.
Sanctification
Bavarian name: d’Heiligung
Key terms: sanctified, holy, washed, justified
Review routing: Native speaker review
Reused from the baseline Romans registry. 6:11 grounds the Corinthians’ new identity in a completed, Spirit-given sanctification despite their behavioral immaturity — must not be read as a self-directed moral self-improvement project.
Spiritual Gifts
Bavarian name: d’Gnodngob’n
Key terms: spiritual gift, gift, grace gift
Review routing: Native speaker review
Reused from the baseline Romans registry. 7:7 extends the concept to the state of marriage or singleness itself as a grace-given calling; must remain explicitly grace-given, not natural talent or personality.
Divine Calling
Bavarian name: Gottes Beruafung
Key terms: called, calling, state in which called
Review routing: Native speaker review
Reused from the baseline Romans registry. 7:15-24 applies the calling vocabulary to marital and social circumstance (‘remain in the calling in which you were called’), sharpening the everyday career-vocation homonym risk already documented in the baseline.
Low Risk Doctrines
Christian Giving (The Collection)
Bavarian name: d’kristliche Freigebigkeit
Key terms: collection, offering, give
Review routing: Automated review
‘Kollekte’ is a familiar, positively-anchored term via the Catholic Mass’s own regular collection practice; low doctrinal risk.
Mutual Edification
Bavarian name: d’gegenseitige Erbauung
Key terms: build up, edify, strengthen
Review routing: Automated review
Reused from the baseline Romans registry; the governing criterion for regulating spiritual gifts throughout chapter 14. No significant doctrinal risk.
Thanksgiving
Bavarian name: da Dank
Key terms: thanksgiving, give thanks, thank God
Review routing: Automated review
Reused from the baseline Romans registry. Standard term, no significant risk.
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