Doctrine Analysis
Doctrine Analysis — Acts 1–28, English–Bavarian
This document is the full-book doctrine matrix required by PRD Phase 1 Step 4/5. It is generated in lockstep with assets/doctrine_risk_registry.json: every doctrine name, risk tier, and review-routing decision below is IDENTICAL to that registry. This file adds the supporting-passage detail and chapter-by-chapter coverage trace the registry does not itself carry, and groups the registry’s 40 doctrines under the nine curriculum foci named in the curriculum parameters, plus one cross-cutting organizational grouping for foundational Christological/devotional doctrines that recur throughout the book rather than attaching to a single curriculum focus.
The core passage, Acts 2:1–41, is the theological anchor of the curriculum (Pentecost, the first apostolic sermon, and the first mass conversion/baptism response) — it is not, however, the scope boundary. Coverage below runs Acts 1 through Acts 28 without omission.
Part A — Doctrine Matrix (40 doctrines, consistent with doctrine_risk_registry.json)
A.1 The Holy Spirit and Pentecost
| Doctrine | Supporting Passages (Acts) | Risk | Translation Risk | Review Routing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Holy Spirit and Pentecost | 1:4-5; 2:1-4; 2:16-21 | High | ”Pfingsten” is a fixed calendar festival with folk customs (Pfingstlümmel); risks flattening a unique historical outpouring into a generic holiday. Spirit’s personal deity must not be reduced to impersonal folk “Geist.” | Human theologian |
| Tongues as Known Languages | 2:4-11; 10:46; 19:6 | High | ”Zungenreden” pulls toward modern charismatic ecstatic glossolalia, foreign/suspect to Bavarian Catholic dialect audience; Acts depicts real, known human languages. | Human theologian |
| The Gift of the Holy Spirit | 2:38; 8:14-17; 10:44-46; 11:15-17; 19:1-6 | High | Risk of conflation with the separately administered Confirmation (Firmung) sacrament; Acts presents immediate Spirit-reception joined to repentance-faith-baptism. | Human theologian |
| Repeated, Situational Spirit-Filling | 2:4; 4:8; 4:31; 13:9 | Medium | Register-gap borrowed “erfüllt”; risk of under-teaching filling as repeatable/situational, not a single unrepeatable Pentecost event. | Native speaker review |
A.2 The Gospel to Jews and Gentiles
| Doctrine | Supporting Passages (Acts) | Risk | Translation Risk | Review Routing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Gospel to Jews and Gentiles | 1:8; 10:1-11:18; 13:46-48; 15:7-19; 28:28 | High | Munich’s specific Nazi-era history requires the same historically aware handling the Romans baseline documents for Jew/Gentile unity language. | Human theologian |
| God’s Impartiality Toward All Peoples | 10:34-35; 15:9 | High | Same Munich/Nazi-era-history caution applies directly to this programmatic “no partiality” statement. | Human theologian |
| Abolition of Ritual Purity Categories | 10:9-16; 10:28; 11:1-18 | Medium | Adjective “gmoa” (common) shares its root with the baseline’s flagged noun “Gmoa” (secular municipality); must use an alternative adjective. | Native speaker review |
| Idolatry and Pagan Religion Contrast | 14:11-18; 17:16,22-31; 19:23-41 | High | Bavarian Catholic devotional life’s statues, wayside Marterl shrines, and processional images risk an implicit Protestant-polemic equivalence with pagan idol-worship if mishandled. | Human theologian |
A.3 Repentance and Baptism
| Doctrine | Supporting Passages (Acts) | Risk | Translation Risk | Review Routing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Repentance and Baptism | 2:38; 3:19; 8:12,36-38; 9:18; 10:47-48; 16:15,33; 18:8; 19:1-6; 22:16 | Critical | Near-universal Bavarian infant baptism and “Buße” defaulting to sacramental confession risk collapsing Acts’ repentance-then-believer’s-baptism sequence into the dominant sacramental pattern. | Human theologian |
| Household Salvation and Baptism | 16:15; 16:31-34; 18:8 | High | Frequently cited for infant/household baptism; must avoid implying automatic household-wide salvation apart from personal response. | Human theologian |
| Forgiveness of Sins Through Christ | 2:38; 3:19; 5:31; 10:43; 13:38; 22:16; 26:18 | High | Bavarian sacramental practice locates forgiveness in priestly absolution; risk that Acts’ baptism-in-Christ’s-name forgiveness is heard as needing ongoing confession-mediation. | Human theologian |
| Grace Cannot Be Purchased (Simon Magus) | 8:9-24 | Critical | Dramatizes exactly the grace-vs-devotional-transaction error flagged for Bavarian folk piety (pilgrimage vows, votive offerings); must not be blunted. | Human theologian |
A.4 The Church as Community
| Doctrine | Supporting Passages (Acts) | Risk | Translation Risk | Review Routing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Church as Community | 2:42-47; 4:32-35; 5:11; 9:31; 11:26; 12:5; 14:23,27 | High | ”Kirch” defaults to the physical parish building/Kirchweih culture; “Gmoa” is unusable (secular-municipality monopoly); requires “Kirchengmoaschaft” or explicit context. | Human theologian |
| Breaking of Bread as Fellowship Meal | 2:42,46; 20:7,11; 27:35 | High | Inevitably evokes the Mass’s Eucharistic fractio panis; requires a careful middle path, neither full Mass-liturgy resonance nor stripped sacramental meaning. | Human theologian |
| Church Leadership: Elders and Overseers | 14:23; 15:2,4,6,22-23; 20:17,28; 21:18 | Critical | ”Priester”/“Bischof” import the sacerdotal ordained priesthood and diocesan-episcopal hierarchy onto NT terms Acts 20 treats as interchangeable local leadership. Forbidden substitutions. | Human theologian |
A.5 Apostolic Authority and Miracles
| Doctrine | Supporting Passages (Acts) | Risk | Translation Risk | Review Routing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apostolic Authority and Miracles | 2:22,43; 3:1-10; 4:30; 5:12-16; 9:32-42; 14:3; 15:12; 19:11-12; 28:8-9 | High | Bavaria’s living miracle-attestation tradition (canonized saints, pilgrimage-shrine healings, ex-votos) risks “Zeichen und Wunder” reading as one miracle-tradition among others rather than unique apostolic gospel-authentication. | Human theologian |
| Laying on of Hands | 6:6; 8:17-19; 9:17; 13:3; 19:6; 28:8 | High | Identical liturgical term to Catholic Confirmation/ordination rites; risks over-sacramentalizing or wrongly hierarchy-restricting Acts’ broader, non-apostle-administered pattern. | Human theologian |
| Apostleship in Narrative | 1:2,15-26; 14:4,14 | Low | Stable, established borrowed term throughout Acts’ apostolic-succession narrative. | Automated review |
A.6 Persecution and Bold Witness
| Doctrine | Supporting Passages (Acts) | Risk | Translation Risk | Review Routing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Persecution and Bold Witness | 4:1-31; 5:17-42; 6:8-7:60; 8:1-3; 12:1-19; 14:19-20; 16:19-24; 21:27-36 | High | ”Freimüatigkeit” must consistently retain frank-public-speech-before-hostile-authority sense across many occurrences, not drift into generic personal courage. | Human theologian |
| Martyrdom | 7:54-60; 12:1-2; 22:20 | Medium | ”Bluatzeuge” is established and distinct from homonym-risk “Zeugnis”; moderate risk mainly concerns consistency across occurrences. | Native speaker review |
| Christian Identity: The Way | 9:2; 11:26; 19:9,23; 22:4; 24:14,22 | Medium | Low folk-Catholic collision; moderate risk concerns consistency of a proper-noun-like designation across many occurrences. | Native speaker review |
| The Church Perceived as a Sect | 24:5,14; 28:22 | Medium | Modern “Sekte” carries a strongly pejorative “dangerous cult” connotation absent from the neutral original “party/school of thought” sense. | Native speaker review |
A.7 Conversion of Paul
| Doctrine | Supporting Passages (Acts) | Risk | Translation Risk | Review Routing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conversion of Paul | 9:1-19; 22:3-21; 26:9-18 | High | ”Auserwähltes Werkzeug” inherits the baseline’s Erwählung register-gap risk — no lived Bavarian predestination-controversy tradition — now applied to a dramatic named individual’s conversion. | Human theologian |
| Deliverance from the Power of Satan | 26:18 | High | Bavarian Alpine folk-devil imagery (Perchten, Krampus-adjacent tradition) risks trivializing or folklorizing this text’s claim of personal spiritual bondage decisively broken by conversion. | Human theologian |
| Divine Calling and Election in Ministry | 9:15; 13:2; 16:9-10 | High | Reuses baseline’s Erwählung/beruafa register-gap caution, now applied to concrete missionary-commissioning narratives rather than abstract exposition. | Human theologian |
A.8 Justification apart from the Law
| Doctrine | Supporting Passages (Acts) | Risk | Translation Risk | Review Routing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Justification Apart from the Law | 13:38-39; 15:1-11; 15:24-29 | Critical | Reuses the Romans baseline’s Critical Rechtfertigung/Gerechtigkeit vocabulary, documented as a “borrowed churchy word” with limited lived Bavarian pastoral currency; Acts 13:38-39 is the book’s clearest programmatic statement, requiring extra explanatory framing rather than new coinage. | Human theologian |
| The Circumcision Controversy | 15:1,5,24; 16:3; 21:21 | Medium | Mostly historical/cultural for a Bavarian audience with no living circumcision practice; risk is theological comprehension of stakes, not lexical collision. | Native speaker review |
A.9 The Great Commission Fulfilled
| Doctrine | Supporting Passages (Acts) | Risk | Translation Risk | Review Routing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Great Commission Fulfilled | 1:8; 13:47; 28:28,30-31 | Medium | ”Mission” carries some regional grounding from Bavaria’s own Catholic missionary-sending orders; risk is mild under-teaching, not a competing folk tradition. | Native speaker review |
| Providence in Mission | 2:23; 17:26; 27:23-24 | Medium | Reuses baseline’s Vorsehung caution against a vague fatalistic folk reading rather than personal, purposive divine governance, now at mission-narrative crisis points. | Native speaker review |
A.10 Cross-Cutting Foundational Christology and Devotional Doctrines
These doctrines recur across the whole book and underlie every one of the nine curriculum foci above rather than belonging to a single one; included here for full-book completeness and matrix consistency with the registry.
| Doctrine | Supporting Passages (Acts) | Risk | Translation Risk | Review Routing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Resurrection of Christ in Apostolic Preaching | 1:22; 2:24,31-32; 4:2,33; 17:18,31-32; 23:6,8; 24:15,21; 26:23 | Medium | Reuses baseline’s Aufersteh’ng caution (no reincarnation/rebirth-cycle reading); extremely high-frequency term across apostolic sermons, elevating consistency stakes beyond Romans. | Native speaker review |
| Lordship and Messiahship of Christ Declared | 2:36; 10:36; 17:3 | Critical | Acts 2:36 is the direct narrative antecedent of the Romans 10:9 confession; must not diverge from the mandated “Da Jesus is da Herr” phrasing per Theological Consistency Rules. | Human theologian |
| Deity and Sonship of Christ | 9:20; 13:33; 7:56 | Critical | Reuses baseline’s Critical Sohn-vo-Gott caution; must not be conflated with the distinct “Son of Man” title at Stephen’s martyrdom. | Human theologian |
| Prayer and Intercession in Acts | 1:14; 2:42; 4:24-31; 12:5,12; 13:2-3 | High | Reuses baseline’s Fürbitt caution re: Altötting-centered Marian/saints intercessory tradition; corporate prayer directly to God on a believer’s behalf must not be assimilated into that mediating-saint pattern. | Human theologian |
| Atonement Language: Purchased with His Own Blood | 20:28 | Critical | Cross-references the Romans baseline’s mandatory escalation rule for any atonement/propitiation-language segment (originally Romans 3:25); applies without exception. | Human theologian |
| Sanctification and Inheritance | 20:32; 26:18 | Medium | Reuses baseline’s Heiligung/Kindschaft-cluster caution; limited direct occurrence, included for cross-curriculum consistency. | Native speaker review |
| Sainthood: All Believers Called Holy | 9:13,32,41; 26:10 | High | Reuses baseline’s caution that intense local patron-saint/Namenstag culture makes “de Heiling” default to canonized figures rather than the corporate every-believer sense. | Human theologian |
| Coming Judgment and Accountability | 17:31; 24:25 | Medium | Reuses baseline’s universal-accountability “Sünd”-trivialization caution, applied to Paul’s judgment-to-come preaching before pagan/Roman audiences. | Native speaker review |
| Mutual Edification and Exhortation | 2:40; 11:23; 14:22; 15:32; 16:40; 20:1-2 | Low | Standard exhortation vocabulary; low collision risk, consistent with baseline’s Low-risk Romans treatment. | Automated review |
| Thanksgiving | 27:35; 28:15 | Low | Standard term reused exactly from baseline; no significant risk. | Automated review |
| Peace with God | 9:31; 10:36; 24:2 | Low | Reuses baseline’s Low-risk relational-peace rendering; minimal collision. | Automated review |
Matrix totals (must equal doctrine_risk_registry.json risk_summary): Critical: 7 · High: 18 · Medium: 11 · Low: 4 · Total: 40. Theologian-routed: 25. Native-speaker-routed: 11. Automated-only: 4.
Part B — Chapter-by-Chapter Coverage Trace (Acts 1–28)
Every chapter of Acts is confirmed reviewed below. Chapters are listed in order; each entry names the active doctrines from Part A and, where a chapter’s doctrinal content is thin, states this explicitly rather than omitting the chapter.
- Acts 1 — Apostleship in Narrative (1:2,15-26); The Great Commission Fulfilled (1:8, programmatic statement opening the book); Prayer and Intercession in Acts (1:14). Reviewed in full; no additional new-term doctrines beyond those listed.
- Acts 2 — CORE PASSAGE (2:1-41). The Holy Spirit and Pentecost; Tongues as Known Languages; Repeated Situational Spirit-Filling (2:4); The Gift of the Holy Spirit (2:38); Repentance and Baptism; Forgiveness of Sins; Resurrection of Christ in Apostolic Preaching (2:24,31-32); Lordship and Messiahship Declared (2:36); Providence in Mission (2:23); The Church as Community (2:42-47); Breaking of Bread as Fellowship Meal (2:42,46); Prayer and Intercession (2:42); Mutual Edification and Exhortation (2:40). This chapter carries the single highest doctrinal density in the book.
- Acts 3 — Apostolic Authority and Miracles (3:1-10); Repentance and Baptism / Forgiveness of Sins (3:19); Resurrection of Christ in Apostolic Preaching (implicit, Peter’s sermon). Reviewed in full.
- Acts 4 — Persecution and Bold Witness (4:1-31); Repeated Situational Spirit-Filling (4:8,31); Prayer and Intercession (4:24-31); Apostolic Authority and Miracles (4:30); The Church as Community (4:32-35); Resurrection of Christ in Apostolic Preaching (4:2,33). Reviewed in full.
- Acts 5 — The Church as Community (5:11); Apostolic Authority and Miracles (5:12-16); Persecution and Bold Witness (5:17-42); Forgiveness of Sins (5:31). The Ananias/Sapphira episode (5:1-11) reinforces the Grace-Cannot-Be-Purchased doctrine’s underlying theme (integrity before God vs. transactional deception) though its primary registry attachment is Simon Magus in ch.8; noted here as thematically continuous, reviewed.
- Acts 6 — Laying on of Hands (6:6); Persecution and Bold Witness begins (6:8-7:60, Stephen’s arrest). Reviewed in full.
- Acts 7 — Persecution and Bold Witness / Martyrdom (7:54-60, Stephen’s death); Deity and Sonship of Christ (7:56, “Son of Man” — flagged for careful distinction from “Son of God”). Ancestral “father(s)” references (7:2,4,11-15,19) are TM-level, not separate doctrines; reviewed and noted.
- Acts 8 — Persecution and Bold Witness (8:1-3); Grace Cannot Be Purchased / Simon Magus (8:9-24); Repentance and Baptism (8:12,36-38); The Gift of the Holy Spirit (8:14-17); Laying on of Hands (8:17-19); The Gospel to Jews and Gentiles (Philip and the Ethiopian eunuch, 8:26-39, liminal Gentile-adjacent figure). Reviewed in full.
- Acts 9 — Conversion of Paul (9:1-19); Christian Identity: The Way (9:2); Sainthood (9:13,32,41); Deity and Sonship of Christ (9:20); Divine Calling and Election in Ministry (9:15); Laying on of Hands (9:17); Repentance and Baptism (9:18); Peace with God / The Church as Community (9:31). Reviewed in full.
- Acts 10 — The Gospel to Jews and Gentiles (10:1-48, the Cornelius narrative); God’s Impartiality (10:34-35); Abolition of Ritual Purity Categories (10:9-16,28); Lordship and Messiahship Declared / Peace with God (10:36); The Gift of the Holy Spirit (10:44-46); Tongues as Known Languages (10:46); Repentance and Baptism (10:47-48); Forgiveness of Sins (10:43). Reviewed in full — second-highest doctrinal density after ch.2.
- Acts 11 — The Gospel to Jews and Gentiles (11:1,18); Abolition of Ritual Purity Categories (11:1-18); The Gift of the Holy Spirit (11:15-17); The Church as Community (11:22,26); Christian Identity: The Way (11:26); Mutual Edification and Exhortation (11:23). Reviewed in full.
- Acts 12 — Persecution and Bold Witness / Martyrdom (12:1-19; James’s death, Peter’s imprisonment); Prayer and Intercession (12:5,12, the church praying for Peter). Reviewed in full.
- Acts 13 — Divine Calling and Election in Ministry (13:1-3); Repeated Situational Spirit-Filling (13:9); Deity and Sonship of Christ (13:33); Justification Apart from the Law (13:38-39, the book’s clearest programmatic statement); The Gospel to Jews and Gentiles (13:46-48); The Great Commission Fulfilled (13:47). Reviewed in full — theological hinge chapter for Justification apart from the Law.
- Acts 14 — Apostolic Authority and Miracles (14:3); Apostleship in Narrative (14:4,14); Idolatry and Pagan Religion Contrast (14:11-18); Persecution and Bold Witness (14:19-20); Mutual Edification and Exhortation (14:22); The Church as Community / Church Leadership (14:23,27). Reviewed in full.
- Acts 15 — The Circumcision Controversy (15:1,5,24); Justification Apart from the Law (15:1-11, 15:24-29 — the Jerusalem Council); Church Leadership: Elders and Overseers (15:2,4,6,22-23); The Gospel to Jews and Gentiles (15:7-19); God’s Impartiality (15:9); Apostolic Authority and Miracles (15:12); Mutual Edification and Exhortation (15:32). Reviewed in full — theological hinge chapter for the whole Jew/Gentile-law question.
- Acts 16 — The Circumcision Controversy (16:3, Timothy); Divine Calling and Election in Ministry (16:9-10, the Macedonian call); Household Salvation and Baptism (16:15, 16:31-34); Persecution and Bold Witness (16:19-24). Reviewed in full.
- Acts 17 — Lordship and Messiahship Declared (17:3); Idolatry and Pagan Religion Contrast (17:16,22-31, Athens/Areopagus); Resurrection of Christ in Apostolic Preaching (17:18,31-32); Providence in Mission (17:26); Coming Judgment and Accountability (17:31). Reviewed in full.
- Acts 18 — Household Salvation and Baptism / Repentance and Baptism (18:8); minor TM-level occurrences (messiah 18:5,28; gentiles 18:6; law 18:13; grace 18:27) with no new doctrine beyond those already tracked. Reviewed in full.
- Acts 19 — The Gift of the Holy Spirit / Repentance and Baptism (19:1-6); Tongues as Known Languages / Laying on of Hands (19:6); Idolatry and Pagan Religion Contrast (19:23-41, Ephesus/Artemis riot); Apostolic Authority and Miracles (19:11-12); Christian Identity: The Way (19:9,23). Reviewed in full.
- Acts 20 — Mutual Edification and Exhortation (20:1-2); Breaking of Bread as Fellowship Meal (20:7,11); Church Leadership: Elders and Overseers (20:17,28, the Ephesian elders address); Atonement Language: Purchased with His Own Blood (20:28, the book’s clearest atonement statement); Sanctification and Inheritance (20:32). Reviewed in full — theological hinge chapter for church leadership and atonement.
- Acts 21 — Church Leadership: Elders and Overseers (21:18); The Circumcision Controversy (21:21); Persecution and Bold Witness (21:27-36); minor TM-level occurrences (gentiles, law) with no new doctrine. Reviewed in full.
- Acts 22 — Conversion of Paul retold (22:3-21); Christian Identity: The Way (22:4); Repentance and Baptism / Forgiveness of Sins (22:16); Martyrdom (22:20, reference to Stephen). Reviewed in full.
- Acts 23 — Resurrection of Christ in Apostolic Preaching (23:6,8, the Pharisee/Sadducee resurrection dispute as backdrop to Paul’s defense). No new doctrine beyond those tracked; reviewed explicitly.
- Acts 24 — Peace with God (24:2); The Church Perceived as a Sect (24:5,14); Resurrection of Christ in Apostolic Preaching (24:15,21); Coming Judgment and Accountability (24:25); Christian Identity: The Way (24:14,22). Reviewed in full.
- Acts 25 — Predominantly legal/narrative (appeal to Caesar background, TM-level only); no new doctrine content beyond law (TM) already tracked. Reviewed explicitly and confirmed as doctrinally thin but not omitted.
- Acts 26 — Conversion of Paul retold a third time (26:9-18); Sainthood (26:10); Deliverance from the Power of Satan (26:18); Forgiveness of Sins / Sanctification and Inheritance (26:18); Resurrection of Christ in Apostolic Preaching (26:23). Reviewed in full.
- Acts 27 — Providence in Mission (27:23-24); Thanksgiving / Breaking of Bread as Fellowship Meal (27:35); salvation-as-rescue TM occurrence (27:34, non-doctrinal literal-rescue sense, distinguished from the theological Erlösung sense used elsewhere). Reviewed in full.
- Acts 28 — Thanksgiving (28:15); The Church Perceived as a Sect (28:22); The Gospel to Jews and Gentiles (28:28, closing programmatic statement); The Great Commission Fulfilled (28:23,30-31, closing “unhindered” note). Reviewed in full — the book’s closing doctrinal bookend to Acts 1:8.
Coverage confirmation: All 28 chapters of Acts have been reviewed against the doctrine matrix in Part A. No chapter was silently skipped; chapters with comparatively thin unique doctrinal content (notably Acts 23 and Acts 25) are explicitly noted as reviewed rather than omitted, per the PRD full-book-coverage mandate.
This document must be read together with assets/doctrine_risk_registry.json (authoritative risk tiers and review routing), analysis/08_core_glossary.md (term-level detail), and the baseline Romans Language Package (translation_memory.json, bible_term_registry.json, 12_ai_translation_requirements.md), which remain the controlling authority for all reused terms.
Critical Risk Doctrines
Repentance and Baptism
Bavarian name: Umkehr und Taufe
Key terms: repent, be baptized, forgiveness of sins
Review routing: Human theologian
Bavarian Catholic sacramental defaults — near-universal infant baptism practiced within days of birth, and ‘Buße’ defaulting to the confession/absolution sacrament — risk collapsing Acts’ repentance-then-believer’s-baptism sequence into the culturally dominant infant-sacramental and confession-mediated patterns.
Grace Cannot Be Purchased (Simon Magus)
Bavarian name: Gnad ned kaufbar
Key terms: gift of God, money, your heart is not right before God
Review routing: Human theologian
Simon Magus’s attempt to purchase Spirit-power dramatizes precisely the grace-vs-devotional-transaction error the Romans baseline already flags for Bavarian Catholic folk piety (pilgrimage vows, votive offerings); an unusually clear teaching passage that must not be blunted.
Church Leadership: Elders and Overseers
Bavarian name: D’Ältesten und Aufseher
Key terms: elders, overseers, shepherd the flock
Review routing: Human theologian
Bavarian Catholic tradition collapses local leadership into the sacerdotal ordained priesthood (Pfarrer/Priester) and the diocesan-episcopal hierarchy (Bischof); rendering elder/overseer with these terms would import an entirely absent theological category and hierarchical structure onto NT terms Acts 20 treats as interchangeable for plural local leadership. ‘Priester’ and ‘Bischof’ are forbidden substitutions.
Justification Apart from the Law
Bavarian name: D’Rechtfertigung ohne s’Gsetz
Key terms: justified, everyone who believes, the law of Moses could not
Review routing: Human theologian
Reuses the Romans baseline’s Critical-risk Rechtfertigung/Gerechtigkeit vocabulary, which the baseline itself documents as a ‘borrowed churchy word’ with limited lived Bavarian Catholic pastoral currency (sola fide being historically a Protestant concern); Acts 13:38-39 is the book’s clearest programmatic statement and requires the same extra explanatory framing rather than new vocabulary invention.
Lordship and Messiahship of Christ Declared
Bavarian name: D’Erklärung: Herr und Messias
Key terms: Lord and Christ, Jesus is Lord
Review routing: Human theologian
Acts 2:36’s climactic double declaration is the direct narrative antecedent of the Romans 10:9 confession the baseline package already governs; must not diverge from the mandated ‘Da Jesus is da Herr’ phrasing pattern, per the Theological Consistency Rules.
Deity and Sonship of Christ
Bavarian name: D’Gottheit und s’Sohnsei vom Christus
Key terms: Son of God, Son of Man
Review routing: Human theologian
Reuses the baseline’s Critical Sohn-vo-Gott caution; must not be conflated with the distinct ‘Son of Man’ title seen by Stephen at his martyrdom, which serves a different, complementary Christological function.
Atonement Language: Purchased with His Own Blood
Bavarian name: Erkauft duach sei Bluat
Key terms: purchased with his own blood, the church of God
Review routing: Human theologian
Cross-references the Romans baseline’s existing mandatory escalation rule requiring human theologian review for any atonement/propitiation-language segment (originally flagged at Romans 3:25); the same mandatory review applies here without exception.
High Risk Doctrines
The Holy Spirit and Pentecost
Bavarian name: Da Heiliger Geist und Pfingsten
Key terms: Pentecost, Holy Spirit, filled with the Spirit, outpouring
Review routing: Human theologian
Pfingsten’s deep cultural embeddedness as a fixed liturgical festival and public holiday (with folk customs like the ‘Pfingstlümmel’) risks reducing the unique, unrepeatable historical outpouring event Acts narrates to a generic calendar occasion; the Spirit’s personal deity must also not be flattened into an impersonal folk ‘Geist.‘
Tongues as Known Languages
Bavarian name: S’Redn in ondere Sprachn
Key terms: tongues, other languages, each in his own language
Review routing: Human theologian
Modern German/Bavarian ‘Zungenreden’ carries strong associations with the contemporary Pentecostal/charismatic movement’s ecstatic glossolalia, culturally foreign and mildly suspect to a Bavarian Catholic dialect audience; Acts depicts real, known human languages and must be rendered accordingly.
The Gift of the Holy Spirit
Bavarian name: D’Gob vom Heiling Geist
Key terms: gift of the Holy Spirit, receive the Spirit, poured out
Review routing: Human theologian
Risk of conflation with the separately administered Confirmation (Firmung) sacrament, where episcopal laying-on-of-hands is the ordinary channel in developed Catholic practice; Acts presents Spirit-reception as immediate, joined to repentance-faith-baptism.
The Gospel to Jews and Gentiles
Bavarian name: S’Evangelium fia Juden und Heiden
Key terms: Jews and Gentiles, to the ends of the earth, all nations
Review routing: Human theologian
Given Bavaria’s own specific 20th-century history (Munich as the Nazi movement’s historic headquarters), this pairing requires the same unusually careful, historically aware handling the Romans baseline already documents for its Unity-of-Jews-and-Gentiles doctrine.
God’s Impartiality Toward All Peoples
Bavarian name: Gotts Unparteilichkeit
Key terms: no partiality, not a respecter of persons
Review routing: Human theologian
Same Munich/Nazi-era-history-driven caution documented in the baseline for peoples-unity language applies directly to this programmatic ‘no partiality’ statement.
Household Salvation and Baptism
Bavarian name: D’Erlesung vom ganzen Haus
Key terms: you and your household, believed and were baptized
Review routing: Human theologian
Frequently cited as support for infant/household baptism in sacramental traditions; must avoid implying automatic household-wide salvation apart from each member’s personal response while preserving the genuine household-solidarity dimension of the text.
Forgiveness of Sins Through Christ
Bavarian name: D’Vergebung vo de Sünd
Key terms: forgiveness of sins, wash away your sins
Review routing: Human theologian
Bavarian sacramental practice locates the pronouncement of forgiveness in priestly absolution during confession; risk that Acts’ repentance-baptism-in-Christ’s-name forgiveness is heard as requiring ongoing confession-mediation to be secured.
The Church as Community
Bavarian name: D’Kirch als Gmoaschaft
Key terms: fellowship, one accord, had everything in common, church
Review routing: Human theologian
‘Kirch’ defaults overwhelmingly to the physical parish building and its Kirchweih festival culture, per the baseline; the natural dialect community word ‘Gmoa’ is unusable due to its secular-municipality monopoly, requiring the compound ‘Kirchengmoaschaft’ or explicit context.
Breaking of Bread as Fellowship Meal
Bavarian name: S’Brotbrechn
Key terms: breaking of bread, ate together
Review routing: Human theologian
‘Brotbrechn’ inevitably evokes the Catholic Mass’s Eucharistic fractio panis rite for a Bavarian Catholic audience; requires a careful middle path between full Mass-liturgy resonance and stripping all sacramental meaning.
Apostolic Authority and Miracles
Bavarian name: D’Apostlische Autorität und Wunder
Key terms: signs and wonders, mighty works, in the name of Jesus
Review routing: Human theologian
Bavarian Catholic folk piety has an unusually strong, living tradition of miracle-attestation through canonized saints and pilgrimage shrines (Lourdes-style healings, Altötting ex-votos); ‘Zeichen und Wunder’ risks being heard as one miracle-tradition among others rather than God’s unique authentication of the apostolic gospel.
Laying on of Hands
Bavarian name: D’Handauflegung
Key terms: laid hands on them, receive the Spirit
Review routing: Human theologian
Identical liturgical term used in Bavarian Catholic Confirmation and priestly ordination rites; risks over-sacramentalizing or wrongly hierarchy-restricting Acts’ broader, sometimes non-apostle-administered pattern.
Persecution and Bold Witness
Bavarian name: Verfolgung und freimüatiges Zeugnis
Key terms: boldness, witness, persecution, spoke the word with boldness
Review routing: Human theologian
No single lexical folk-Catholic collision, but the doctrine’s stakes are High because ‘Freimüatigkeit’ must consistently retain the frank-public-speech-before-hostile-authority sense across the large number of narrative occurrences central to the whole book, rather than drifting into generic personal courage.
Conversion of Paul
Bavarian name: D’Bekehrung vom Paulus
Key terms: chosen instrument, light from heaven, Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me
Review routing: Human theologian
The ‘chosen instrument’ (auserwähltes Werkzeug) language inherits the baseline’s Erwählung register-gap risk — no lived Bavarian predestination-controversy tradition — now applied concretely to a dramatic named individual’s conversion, requiring careful theological framing.
Deliverance from the Power of Satan
Bavarian name: Von da Finsternis ins Liacht
Key terms: power of Satan, darkness to light, open their eyes
Review routing: Human theologian
Bavarian Alpine folk-devil imagery (Perchten, Krampus-adjacent Christmas tradition) risks trivializing or assimilating this text’s serious claim of bondage to a personal spiritual power, decisively broken by conversion, into superstition-adjacent folklore.
Prayer and Intercession in Acts
Bavarian name: S’Bet’n und d’Fürbitt
Key terms: prayed earnestly, the church prayed, constant prayer
Review routing: Human theologian
Reuses the baseline’s Fürbitt caution regarding Bavaria’s unusually intense Marian/saints intercessory-prayer tradition centered at Altötting; corporate church prayer directly to God on a believer’s behalf (e.g. for Peter’s release) must not be assimilated into that mediating-saint devotional pattern.
Idolatry and Pagan Religion Contrast
Bavarian name: D’Götzendienst-Auseinandersetzung
Key terms: idols, gods have come down, unknown god, full of idols
Review routing: Human theologian
Bavarian Catholic devotional life includes extensive use of religious statues, wayside shrine crucifixes (Marterl), and processional images of the Virgin and saints; translation must avoid an implicit Protestant-polemic reading that equates legitimate Catholic devotional imagery with pagan idol-worship.
Divine Calling and Election in Ministry
Bavarian name: Gottes Beruafung und Erwählung fia’n Dienst
Key terms: set apart, called, the Spirit said
Review routing: Human theologian
Reuses the baseline’s Erwählung/beruafa register-gap caution (no lived Bavarian predestination-controversy tradition), now applied to concrete missionary-commissioning narratives rather than abstract doctrinal exposition.
Sainthood: All Believers Called Holy
Bavarian name: D’Heiligkeit vo alle Gläubign in da Apostlgschicht
Key terms: saints, the holy ones
Review routing: Human theologian
Reuses the baseline’s caution that Bavarian rural Catholic folk piety’s intense local patron-saint and Namenstag culture makes ‘de Heiling’ default to venerated canonized figures rather than the corporate sense of every believer.
Medium Risk Doctrines
Repeated, Situational Spirit-Filling
Bavarian name: D’Erfüllung mit’n Heiling Geist
Key terms: filled with the Holy Spirit, filled again
Review routing: Native speaker review
Register-gap borrowed vocabulary (‘erfüllt’); risk is under-teaching that filling is repeatable and situational rather than a single unrepeatable event confined to Pentecost.
Abolition of Ritual Purity Categories
Bavarian name: S’Aufhebn vo unrein und alltäglich
Key terms: common, unclean, what God has made clean
Review routing: Native speaker review
The adjective ‘gmoa’ (common) shares its root with the baseline’s already-flagged noun ‘Gmoa’ (secular municipality); translators must use an alternative adjective to avoid bleed-through between the two distinct risk profiles.
Martyrdom
Bavarian name: S’Bluatzeugnis
Key terms: Stephen’s death, witness unto death
Review routing: Native speaker review
‘Bluatzeuge’ is an established German/Bavarian term distinct enough from the homonym-risk ‘Zeugnis’ (school report card); moderate risk mainly concerns consistent usage across occurrences.
The Circumcision Controversy
Bavarian name: Da Streit um d’Beschneidung
Key terms: circumcision, necessary for salvation, yoke
Review routing: Native speaker review
Mostly historical/cultural for a Bavarian audience with no living circumcision practice; the primary risk is theological comprehension of why this mattered rather than a lexical collision.
The Great Commission Fulfilled
Bavarian name: D’Erfüllung vom Missionsbefehl
Key terms: to the end of the earth, unhindered, kingdom of God
Review routing: Native speaker review
The register-gap borrowed ‘Mission’ term carries some regional grounding from Bavaria’s own Catholic missionary-sending religious orders; the risk here is mild under-teaching rather than a competing folk tradition.
Providence in Mission
Bavarian name: D’Vorsehung in da Mission
Key terms: definite plan and foreknowledge, appointed times, an angel stood by me
Review routing: Native speaker review
Reuses the baseline’s Vorsehung caution against a vague fatalistic folk reading rather than personal, purposive divine governance, now applied to mission-narrative crisis points.
The Resurrection of Christ in Apostolic Preaching
Bavarian name: D’Aufersteh’ng vom Christus in da apostolischn Predigt
Key terms: raised him up, resurrection of the dead, God raised him
Review routing: Native speaker review
Reuses the baseline’s Aufersteh’ng caution (must not suggest reincarnation or a rebirth cycle); this is an extremely high-frequency term throughout apostolic sermons in Acts, elevating the consistency stakes across many more occurrences than in Romans.
Christian Identity: The Way
Bavarian name: D’kristliche Identität - da Weg
Key terms: the Way, Christians, disciples
Review routing: Native speaker review
Mostly stable, low folk-Catholic collision; the moderate risk chiefly concerns consistency of a proper-noun-like designation across many occurrences throughout the book.
The Church Perceived as a Sect
Bavarian name: D’Wahrnehmung als Sekte
Key terms: sect, the Way, everywhere spoken against
Review routing: Native speaker review
Modern Bavarian/German ‘Sekte’ carries a strongly pejorative ‘dangerous cult’ connotation absent from the original neutral-to-descriptive ‘party/school of thought’ sense; risk is anachronistic pejorative coloring rather than a competing doctrinal tradition.
Sanctification and Inheritance
Bavarian name: Heiligung und Erbteil
Key terms: sanctified, inheritance among the sanctified
Review routing: Native speaker review
Reuses the baseline’s Heiligung/Kindschaft-cluster caution; limited direct Acts occurrence, included for cross-curriculum consistency with the Romans package.
Coming Judgment and Accountability
Bavarian name: S’kemmede Gericht
Key terms: judgment to come, he has fixed a day, righteousness and self-control
Review routing: Native speaker review
Reuses the baseline’s universal-accountability caution regarding ‘Sünd’ trivialization risk, applied here to Paul’s judgment-to-come preaching before pagan and Roman audiences.
Low Risk Doctrines
Mutual Edification and Exhortation
Bavarian name: D’gegenseitige Erbauung und Ermahnung
Key terms: exhorted, encouraged, strengthened the disciples
Review routing: Automated review
Standard exhortation vocabulary; low collision risk, consistent with the baseline’s Low-risk treatment of Mutual Edification in Romans.
Thanksgiving
Bavarian name: Da Dank
Key terms: gave thanks, thanksgiving
Review routing: Automated review
Standard term, reused exactly from the baseline; no significant risk.
Apostleship in Narrative
Bavarian name: S’Apostlamt
Key terms: apostle, twelve apostles, sent
Review routing: Automated review
Stable, established borrowed term throughout Acts’ narrative of apostolic succession and ministry.
Peace with God
Bavarian name: Da Friad mit Gott
Key terms: peace, had peace
Review routing: Automated review
Reuses the baseline’s Low-risk relational-peace rendering; minimal collision.
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