Executive Summary — 2 Peter | English → Czech Language Package

Curriculum: 2 Peter 1–3 | Core passage: 2 Peter 1:16–21 | Format: Smart Brevity

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Why it matters

2 Peter is being added to a Czech Language Package built on the Romans baseline for one of Europe’s most secular societies. Romans established that the dominant Czech risk is low biblical literacy, not rival theology — most terms simply carry no live framework at all for a general reader. 2 Peter confirms that pattern for the majority of its new vocabulary, but it is the first curriculum in this pipeline to introduce Czech-specific collisions with LIVE competing frameworks: a standing liturgical idiom (“den Páně” = Sunday), a Catholic sacramental association (“pokání” = confession), a politically charged national memory (“svoboda” = the 1989 Velvet Revolution), a nationally sensitive historical figure (Jan Hus, forcing rejection of “kacířství”), and a contemporary alternative-spirituality movement (New Age “higher self” language colliding with “partakers of the divine nature”). Getting these five decisions wrong would not just confuse readers — it would actively teach the wrong doctrine using words the reader already has strong, ready-made associations for.

Key findings

• 85 total glossary terms now govern this curriculum (17 inherited exactly from the Romans baseline + 68 new). Of these: 10 Critical, 27 High, 39 Medium, 9 Low risk.
• 26 doctrines are tracked in the doctrine risk registry: 6 Critical, 15 High, 3 Medium, 2 Low — 21 of 26 doctrines require mandatory human theologian review, versus 3 for native speaker review and 2 for automated review only.
• The core passage (2 Peter 1:16–21) alone accounts for 5 of the 10 Critical-risk terms: příchod (Parousia), můj milovaný Syn (beloved Son), Písmo (Scripture, High but core-passage-anchored), výklad (interpretation/origination), and unášeni Duchem svatým (carried along by the Spirit) — making it the single highest-density risk cluster in the entire curriculum, consistent with its role as the theological anchor.
• Five decisions are structurally new to this Language Package (no Romans precedent): “den Páně” vs. liturgical Sunday; “podílníci na božské přirozenosti” vs. New Age self-divinization; “pokání” vs. sacramental confession; “svoboda” vs. Velvet Revolution political liberty; and “škodlivé nauky” deliberately chosen over “kacířství” to avoid Jan Hus sympathy.
• A genuine textual-critical divergence exists at 2 Peter 3:10 (fire/destruction vs. exposure, per Byzantine vs. modern critical text traditions) requiring a mandatory translator note rather than silent harmonization.
• YouVersion version is now canonically recorded for this Language Package: Český ekumenický překlad (ČEP), ID 1932, abbreviation CEP — the first such recording in this pipeline, to be reused unchanged for all future curricula including Romans on next revision.

Risks

• Highest risk: “den Páně” (Day of the Lord, 3:10) being read as ordinary Sunday by any reader with residual church background — the single most acute fencing requirement identified across both the Romans and 2 Peter Language Packages combined.
• Second highest: “partakers of the divine nature” (1:4) being absorbed into Czech New Age/self-help “higher self” spirituality, a live and culturally active framework unlike anything flagged in the Romans baseline.
• Doctrinally consequential if missed: inverting 2 Peter 1:19’s comparison (Scripture as MORE reliable than eyewitness testimony, not merely “confirmed by” it) would blunt the core passage’s central apologetic claim.
• Nationally sensitive: rendering αἱρέσεις ἀπωλείας as “kacířství” would risk activating sympathy for Jan Hus rather than condemnation of false teachers — a uniquely Czech-historical translation trap with no parallel in most Language Packages.
• Politically sensitive: “svoboda” in 2:19 carries Velvet Revolution associations powerful enough to invert Peter’s critique of false moral license into an accidental endorsement of freedom generally.

Opportunities

• Legal/testimonial Czech vocabulary (“očití svědkové”) is a rare case where an everyday register reinforces rather than undermines the doctrine (apostolic eyewitness testimony, 1:16).
• The Noah/Flood narrative (2:5) retains unusually wide general cultural recognition even among secular Czechs — a rare foothold of pre-existing narrative literacy to build on.
• Islamic (Yawm al-Qiyamah), Jewish (Yom Adonai; erekh apayim), and Orthodox (theosis) comparative-theology parallels documented in 04_comparative_theology.md offer genuine pedagogical bridges for the Day of the Lord, God’s patience, and Divine Nature doctrines respectively, provided their Christological differences are made explicit.
• The five structurally new Czech-specific decisions in this curriculum (den Páně, podílníci na božské přirozenosti, pokání, svoboda, škodlivé nauky) are now precedent-setting: once correctly resolved and documented here, they de-risk every future curriculum in this Language Package that touches eschatology, sacramental language, or Czech national history.

Recommended actions

1. Merge assets/translation_memory.json and assets/bible_term_registry.json (2 Peter) into Phase 2 tooling alongside the existing Romans baseline files before any segment translation begins.
2. Enforce mandatory, repeated (not first-use-only) glossing for the four live-framework-collision terms — den Páně, podílníci na božské přirozenosti, pokání, svoboda — at every single occurrence, per 12_ai_translation_requirements.md.
3. Route all 21 human-theologian-review doctrines and all 37 Critical/High-risk terms through mandatory theologian review before Phase 2 sign-off; do not permit automated-only or native-speaker-only approval for any of these.
4. Flag every occurrence of 2 Peter 3:10 for a mandatory textual-variant translator note (fire/destruction vs. exposure) rather than silent harmonization.
5. Lock in and propagate the newly recorded YouVersion version decision (ČEP, ID 1932) to all downstream Phase 2 hyperlink generation and to the Romans package on its next revision.