Core Glossary — Acts, English → Czech

Purpose and Method

This glossary consolidates every load-bearing theological term identified in 07_semantic_analysis.md across the entire book of Acts (chapters 1–28), citing the chapter(s) in which each term is load-bearing. Per the hard governing rule of this Language Package, any term already recorded in the baseline Romans translation_memory.json is reused here with the identical Czech rendering and risk tier, and is marked “REUSED — Romans baseline” in the Status column. Terms new to this Acts curriculum are marked “NEW — Acts” and receive a full risk justification specific to the Czech secular-literacy context this Language Package documents throughout.

Risk tiers (Critical/High/Medium/Low) and review routing follow the same framework as doctrine_risk_registry.json: Critical and High require human theologian review; Medium requires native speaker review; Low requires automated review only.

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Section A — Terms Reused Exactly from the Romans Baseline

#	English Term	Czech Rendering	Risk	Doctrine	Acts Chapters	Status	Czech-Specific Risk Reasoning
1	Gospel	evangelium	High	Gospel	5, 8, 10, 13-17, 20, 28	REUSED — Romans baseline	Must still be actively defined at first substantive use per curriculum; no inherited meaning assumable.
2	Grace	milost	High	Grace	4, 11, 13, 14, 15, 20	REUSED — Romans baseline	Judicial-clemency secular sense remains the default risk; Acts 15:11 combines this with three other Critical/High terms in one clause — mandatory theologian review.
3	Faith	víra	High	Faith	3, 6, 10, 11, 13-16, 20, 26	REUSED — Romans baseline	Object of faith (Christ) must be explicit at every occurrence; generic self-belief reading is the default risk.
4	Righteousness	spravedlnost	High	Salvation	3, 13, 24	REUSED — Romans baseline	Civic/legal “fairness” sense is the reader’s only default; forensic sense must be built from scratch, as in Acts 24:25’s ethical-eschatological pairing.
5	Justification	ospravedlnění	Critical	Salvation / Justification apart from the Law	13, 15	REUSED — Romans baseline	Acts 13:38-39 is Acts’ own thesis statement for this doctrine and must use identical vocabulary to Romans 3-4 across both curricula; mandatory theologian review.
6	Salvation	spasení	Critical	Salvation	2, 4, 5, 10, 11, 13, 15, 16, 17, 28	REUSED — Romans baseline	The single highest-frequency Critical term in Acts; per baseline rule, never a bare label — always narrated (from what/to what/by whom). Occurs at the book’s structural high points (Pentecost sermon, Philippian jailer, closing verse).
7	Apostle	apoštol	Low	Apostleship	1, 2, 4, 5, 8, 9, 11, 14-16	REUSED — Romans baseline	Stable; underlying office/authority concept still needs brief narrative grounding for readers unfamiliar with the Twelve/Paul’s commissioning.
8	Called (adj.)	povolaný	Medium	Divine Calling	1, 2, 9, 13	REUSED — Romans baseline	Context-sensitive across apostleship, sainthood, and effectual-calling senses, as in Romans; Acts 9:15/13:48 add narrative embodiment.
9	Calling (noun)	povolání	High	Divine Calling	1	REUSED — Romans baseline	Vocational/job sense remains the default secular reading; Acts 1:25’s “ministry and apostleship” reinforces the need for active distinction.
10	Holy	svatý	Medium	Sanctification	2, 3, 7, 26	REUSED — Romans baseline	Name-day cultural association persists as the reader’s likely default; Acts 3:14’s “Holy and Righteous One” compounds two baseline terms Christologically.
11	Saints	svatí	High	Sainthood	9, 26	REUSED — Romans baseline	Corporate, all-believers sense (Acts 9:13, 32, 41; 26:10) must be actively taught against the folk-custom name-day association documented in baseline.
12	Sanctification	posvěcení	High	Sanctification	20, 26	REUSED — Romans baseline	Ceremonial-blessing-of-a-building association remains the default risk; Acts 20:32 and 26:18 apply it to ongoing personal transformation and inheritance.
13	Resurrection	vzkříšení	Critical	Resurrection of Christ	1, 2, 4, 17, 23, 24	REUSED — Romans baseline	Easter-folk-custom detachment risk persists; Acts 17:32 shows this doctrine as the SPECIFIC point of ridicule for sophisticated secular audiences — directly relevant to the contemporary Czech context; Acts 23-24 expand scope to general/universal resurrection.
14	Lord	Pán	Critical	Lordship of Christ	2, 4, 9, 10, 15, 16	REUSED — Romans baseline	”Pane” honorific-flatness risk persists; Acts 2:36’s “Lord and Christ” and Acts 16:31’s salvation formula both require the same explanatory-note treatment as Romans 10:9.
15	Son of God	Syn Boží	Critical	Sonship of Christ	9 (implicit), 13	REUSED — Romans baseline	Basic Trinitarian scaffolding still required; less frequent explicit occurrence in Acts than Romans, but doctrinally load-bearing wherever present.
16	Peace	pokoj	Medium	Peace with God	(general narrative use)	REUSED — Romans baseline	Mere-quiet secular sense remains default risk wherever the term recurs in Acts’ narrative greetings/summaries.
17	Spiritual gifts	duchovní dary	Medium	Spiritual Gifts	2, 19	REUSED — Romans baseline	Tongues/prophecy as concrete instances require the same foundational Spirit-distribution teaching as in Romans.
18	Thanksgiving	díkůvzdání	Low	Thanksgiving	(general)	REUSED — Romans baseline	Minimal risk; standard vocabulary.
19	Fellowship	společenství	Low	Christian Fellowship	2	REUSED — Romans baseline	Stable; Acts 2:42 gives it concrete communal content (teaching, breaking bread, prayers).
20	Church	církev	Medium	Church as God’s People	2, 5, 8, 9, 11-20 (throughout)	REUSED — Romans baseline	Architectural/touristic “kostel” confusion risk persists throughout; Acts’ narrative gives “církev” its founding historical content across nearly every chapter.
21	Kingdom of God	království Boží	Medium	Kingdom Mission	1, 8, 14, 19, 20, 28	REUSED — Romans baseline	Fairy-tale-kingdom association risk persists; Acts 1:6 depicts the disciples’ own mistaken political expectation as a teaching foil; Acts 28:31 closes the book on this term.
22	Law	zákon	High	Fulfillment of Prophecy / Justification apart from the Law	13, 15, 18, 21-25	REUSED — Romans baseline	Mosaic-law-vs-general-legislation distinction remains essential; Acts 13:38-39 and 15:10 are Acts’ central Justification-apart-from-Law texts requiring exact baseline consistency.
23	Sin	hřích	High	Universal Human Accountability	2, 3, 22	REUSED — Romans baseline	Colloquial “what a shame/pity” flattening risk persists; Acts 2:37-38’s conviction/repentance sequence depends on hřích retaining full moral seriousness.
24	Gentiles	pohané	Medium	Unity of Jews and Gentiles	9-11, 13-15, 18, 21, 22, 26, 28	REUSED — Romans baseline	”Pagan” overtone noted in baseline persists; use “národy” where a more neutral sense is intended, especially in Acts 13:47’s OT-quotation contexts.
25	Glory	sláva	Medium	Deity of Christ / God	7, 12	REUSED — Romans baseline	Worldly-fame secular sense remains the default risk wherever the term recurs.
26	Power of God	moc Boží	Medium	Power of God for Salvation	1, 2, 4, 10	REUSED — Romans baseline	Standard rendering; Acts’ triad “mocné skutky, divy a znamení” (2:22) extends this into a recurring technical formula unique to Acts’ narrative pattern.
27	Messiah / Christ	Mesiáš / Kristus	Critical	Messianic Promise	2, 3, 5, 8, 9, 13, 17, 18, 26	REUSED — Romans baseline	Full OT messianic-expectation background required at every occurrence; Acts 2:36’s “Lord and Christ” is the passage’s Christological climax and requires mandatory theologian review.
28	Prophet	prorok	Medium	Inspiration of Scripture	2, 3, 7, 13, 15, 21	REUSED — Romans baseline	Fortune-telling/trend-prediction secular misreading risk persists; Acts 2:16-18’s Joel citation is the core passage’s central prophetic anchor.
29	Prophecy	proroctví	Medium	Fulfillment of Prophecy	2, 11, 13, 15, 16, 21	REUSED — Romans baseline	Must be distinguished from Acts 16:16’s occult “spirit of divination” — a genuinely new contrastive risk unique to Acts not present in Romans.
30	Covenant	smlouva	High	Davidic Covenant	3, 7	REUSED — Romans baseline	Commercial-contract secular sense remains default risk; Acts 3:25’s “covenant God made with your fathers” requires OT background scaffolding.
31	Election	vyvolení	High	Effectual Calling	1, 9, 13	REUSED — Romans baseline	Competitive-selection secular sense risk persists; Acts 9:15’s “chosen instrument” and Acts 13:48’s “appointed to eternal life” are concrete narrative embodiments requiring theologian review per predestination-language escalation rule.
32	Intercession	přímluva	Medium	Prayer and Intercession	(minor: 12)	REUSED — Romans baseline	Low direct occurrence in Acts; retained for consistency where prayer-on-behalf-of-others appears (e.g., the church praying for Peter, ch.12).
33	Providence	prozřetelnost Boží	Medium	Providence	12, 13, 27	REUSED — Romans baseline	Fatalistic “osud”/“štěstí” secular-drift risk persists; Acts 27’s shipwreck narrative is an extended illustration of providence working through ordinary means, a useful teaching expansion beyond Romans 8:28’s more compact statement.
34	Mission	misie	Medium	Mission to the Nations	1, 13, 22	REUSED — Romans baseline	Colonial/NGO-humanitarian connotation risk persists; Acts 1:8 and 13:1-3 are the book’s programmatic mission-commissioning texts.
35	David	David	Low	Davidic Covenant	2, 4, 7, 13, 15	REUSED — Romans baseline	Standard proper name.
36	Israel	Izrael	Low	Unity of Jews and Gentiles	1, 2, 5, 7, 9, 10, 13, 21, 26, 28	REUSED — Romans baseline	Contemporary-nation-state association risk persists exactly as noted in baseline; especially relevant given Acts’ extensive Jewish-Gentile narrative content.
37	Jesus	Ježíš	Critical	Lordship of Christ	throughout	REUSED — Romans baseline	Established, stable; casual-exclamation register risk noted in baseline must be avoided in all formal Acts teaching material.
38	God	Bůh	Critical	Deity of Christ	throughout	REUSED — Romans baseline	Standard; “proboha” exclamatory-register risk persists.
39	Holy Spirit	Duch svatý	Critical	Sanctification / Pentecost	1, 2, 4-10, 13, 15, 16, 19-21	REUSED — Romans baseline	The single most frequently recurring Critical term in Acts given the curriculum’s Pentecost anchor; must always be taught as a personal divine agent (cf. Acts 5:3-4, 7:51 — one who can be lied to and resisted), never an impersonal force — an even sharper risk in Acts than in Romans given Acts’ narrative concreteness.
40	Father	Otec	Critical	Adoption into God’s Family	1, 2	REUSED — Romans baseline	Standard; lower frequency in Acts than Romans but retains full doctrinal weight where present (e.g., 2:33’s “received from the Father”).
41	Exhort	povzbuzovat	Low	Mutual Edification	2	REUSED — Romans baseline	Acts 2:40’s “exhorted” reuses this exactly.
42	Seed of David	potomek Davidův	Medium	Davidic Covenant	13	REUSED — Romans baseline	Acts 13:23 reuses this exactly; requires the same Davidic-covenant background scaffolding as Romans 1:3.
43	Imputed Righteousness	přičtená spravedlnost	Critical	Justification by Faith	13 (conceptually)	REUSED — Romans baseline	While Acts 13:38-39 uses δικαιόω (justification) rather than the specific λογίζομαι (imputation) vocabulary of Romans 4, the underlying doctrine is identical and must be taught with continuity to Romans 4’s Abraham narrative.

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Section B — New Terms Introduced by the Acts Curriculum

#	English Term	Czech Rendering	Risk	Doctrine	Acts Chapters	Status	Czech-Specific Risk Reasoning
44	Repentance	pokání	Critical	Repentance and Baptism	2, 3, 11, 17, 26	NEW — Acts	Established Kralice/ČEP term but at high risk of the same archaic-detachment pattern documented for spasení: a quasi-liturgical word with little live conceptual content for a secular reader, and additionally at risk of being narrowed to mere private remorse (closer to Czech “lítost”) rather than the whole-life reorientation (μετάνοια) Acts describes. Must be paired with an explanatory gloss (“obrácení / změna smýšlení a života”) on first substantive use in every document. Mandatory theologian review.
45	Baptism / to baptize	křest / křtít	High	Repentance and Baptism	2, 8-11, 16, 18, 19, 22	NEW — Acts	Unlike most terms in this glossary, “křest” is culturally FAMILIAR to secular Czechs (most know of infant “christening” as a family/social tradition) — but this familiarity is itself the risk: the folk-cultural association (a naming ceremony, a family party, godparents) is detached from the repentance-and-faith content Acts requires. Must be actively distinguished from this cultural default at every occurrence.
46	Filled with the Holy Spirit	naplněný/naplněni Duchem svatým	Critical (inherits Duch svatý)	The Holy Spirit and Pentecost	2, 4, 6, 9, 13, 19	NEW — Acts (phrase-level)	No existing category in secular Czech experience for being “filled” by a distinct divine person; must be taught concretely as empowerment for witness, not psychologized as emotional excitement or explained away as ecstatic experience. Recurs as a technical formula and must be rendered identically at every occurrence.
47	Tongues (glossolalia)	jazyky	High	The Holy Spirit and Pentecost	2, 10, 19	NEW — Acts	Must be rendered so as to clearly denote real human languages in Acts 2 (confirmed by the nation list, vv.8-11), not vague ecstatic utterance; risk of readers collapsing this with later, different Pauline usage (1 Corinthians) without the distinction being taught.
48	Pentecost	Letnice	Medium-High	The Holy Spirit and Pentecost	2	NEW — Acts	Established liturgical term with almost no cultural footprint in secular Czech life, unlike Easter or Christmas; must be explained as a specific historical Jewish harvest festival, not assumed recognizable at all.
49	Witness (noun) / to testify	svědek / svědectví / svědčit	High	Persecution and Bold Witness	1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 22, 26	NEW — Acts	Unusually, the ordinary secular Czech sense (a legal/court witness) is a HELPFUL bridge here rather than a distortion, since it conveys firsthand, testable eyewitness testimony well. The risk is instead ensuring the specific content witnessed (the resurrection) stays attached to the term, and tracking its development into “mučeník” (martyr) in Acts 7, since Czech (unlike Greek) requires two separate words for these related concepts.
50	Boldness	smělost / odvaha	Medium-High	Persecution and Bold Witness	4	NEW — Acts	Everyday Czech reads this as an innate personality trait; must be taught as a Spirit-produced fruit (cf. Acts 4:31’s direct link to Spirit-filling), not natural courage or bravado.
51	Signs and wonders	znamení a divy / divy a znamení	Medium-High	Apostolic Authority and Miracles	2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 14, 15	NEW — Acts (phrase-level)	Must function as a stable recurring technical formula throughout the whole curriculum (paralleling how the baseline treats power_of_god); risk of readers treating these as generic “miracles” in an entertainment/magic-trick sense rather than self-authenticating divine confirmation of apostolic proclamation.
52	Laying on of hands	vzkládání rukou	Medium	Apostolic Authority and Miracles	6, 8, 9, 13, 19	NEW — Acts	Must be distinguished from a transactional, magical “spiritual commodity” (as Simon Magus wrongly assumes in ch.8); signifies apostolic blessing/commissioning, not a purchasable power.
53	The Way (as a name for the Christian movement)	Cesta	High	The Church as Community	9, 19, 22, 24	NEW — Acts	As a bare common noun, “cesta” carries zero built-in religious signal in Czech; must be explicitly flagged/capitalized as a proper technical designation for the earliest Christian movement, or it will read as merely “the road” with no doctrinal content.
54	Christian	křesťan	Low	The Church as Community	11, 26	NEW — Acts	Unusually low-risk term for this glossary — stable and universally recognized — but flag that its ordinary secular usage (a cultural-heritage label, “nominally raised Catholic/Protestant”) may UNDERSHOOT the costly, decisive identity-marker sense Acts 11:26 depicts; a brief contrast note is worthwhile though the term itself needs no substitution.
55	Circumcision	obřízka	High	Justification apart from the Law	7, 10, 11, 15, 16, 21	NEW — Acts	Linguistically stable, but the underlying controversy (is a physical, ethnic-religious marker required for salvation?) has no live cultural referent for a secular Czech reader, unlike readers from Torah-observant or Islamic-heritage cultural contexts; requires full background scaffolding, not just vocabulary.
56	Clean / unclean	čistý / nečistý (obecný)	High	The Gospel to Jews and Gentiles	10, 11	NEW — Acts	Czech has no live ritual-purity culture to activate; the vision’s real point (a purity category reassigned to a PEOPLE category, i.e., no Gentile is “off-limits”) requires explicit explanation or it risks reading as a story merely about dietary rules.
57	God-fearer	bohabojný	Medium-High	The Gospel to Jews and Gentiles	10, 13	NEW — Acts	A specific historical/social category (a Gentile devout toward Israel’s God but not circumcised) with no modern equivalent; risk of flattening to a generic “religious/pious person” without the liminal in-between status that gives Cornelius’s story its force.
58	No partiality / no respect of persons	nikomu nestraní / nedělá rozdíly mezi lidmi	High	Unity of Jews and Gentiles	10	NEW — Acts	Must retain the specifically ethnic/status-inclusive force of Acts 10:34’s climactic conclusion, not read as a generic fairness platitude detached from the Cornelius narrative that grounds it.
59	Ascension	nanebevstoupení / byl vzat nahoru	High	Apostolic Authority (background)	1	NEW — Acts	No baseline equivalent; must be clearly distinguished from vzkříšení (resurrection) as a separate, subsequent historical event — a secular reader has no framework for a bodily ascent into heaven as historical fact, not legend.
60	Author/Founder/Prince (archēgos)	vůdce / původce	High	Apostolic Authority and Miracles / Christology	3, 5	NEW — Acts	No single Czech word captures both “founder” and “pioneering leader”; requires an explanatory phrase rather than a bare noun or the Christological force (Christ as the one who opens the way) is lost.
61	Savior	Spasitel	Critical	The Gospel to Jews and Gentiles	5, 13	NEW — Acts	Root-linked to Critical-tier spasení; at high risk of registering only as an archaic, Christmas-carol-adjacent devotional word (“Kristus Spasitel se narodil”) emptied of doctrinal content — the same detachment pattern already documented for spasení itself. Must never stand as a bare title without accompanying narrative content.
62	Determined plan / foreknowledge	ustanovený úmysl / předzvědění (Boží)	High	Providence / Election	2, 20	NEW — Acts	Closely tied to already-High-risk providence and election; the hard providence/human-responsibility tension in Acts 2:23 (God’s plan AND human guilt for the crucifixion) requires careful compatibilist framing, not simple resolution in either direction.
63	Forgiveness of sins	odpuštění hříchů	High	Repentance and Baptism	2, 5, 10, 13, 26	NEW — Acts	Depends on hřích retaining real moral weight (already flagged in baseline against colloquial “what a pity” flattening); must be taught as a genuine legal/relational debt-cancellation, not vague “getting over” past mistakes.
64	Gift of the Holy Spirit / gift of God	dar Ducha svatého / dar Boží	High	The Holy Spirit and Pentecost	2, 8, 10, 11	NEW — Acts	Parallel to baseline grace; “dar” (gift) must be read as free and unearned, not a reward for correctly performed repentance, and explicitly not a purchasable commodity (contrast Simon Magus, ch.8).
65	Promise (epangelia)	zaslíbení	Medium-High	The Holy Spirit and Pentecost	1, 2, 13	NEW — Acts	Tightly linked to covenant/smlouva (High); a promise is only fully meaningful against covenant background, which cannot be assumed for a secular reader.
66	Sect (hairesis)	sekta	Medium	Conversion of Paul / The Church as Community	24 (implied), 28	NEW — Acts	Modern Czech “sekta” carries a strongly negative, often cult-associated connotation not present in the more neutral ancient usage (“the sect of the Nazarenes”); flag risk of anachronistic negative coloring when this term appears describing the earliest church’s outsider perception.
67	Elder / Overseer / Shepherd	starší / dohlížitel / pastýř	Medium-High	The Church as Community	20	NEW — Acts	”Biskup” (bishop) carries strong specific Roman Catholic institutional associations that would import unwarranted hierarchical assumptions into this early usage; recommend “starší” as primary rendering with “dohlížitel” as clarifying gloss.
68	Purchased/acquired with [Christ’s own] blood	vykoupil/získal svou vlastní krví	Critical	Apostolic Authority / Atonement	20	NEW — Acts	Atonement-price language requiring the same rigor as Romans 3:25’s propitiation material per baseline escalation rules; must not be diluted into a vague metaphor for “great cost” divorced from its specific sacrificial content.
69	Vision (horama/horasis)	vidění	Medium	Conversion of Paul / The Gospel to Jews and Gentiles	9, 10, 16, 18, 26	NEW — Acts	Must be taught as a genuine, specific divine communication event, not a generic dream or subjective impression; central to both Paul’s conversion (ch.9) and Cornelius’s episode (ch.10).
70	Angel of the Lord	anděl Páně	Medium	Persecution and Bold Witness (Providence)	5, 8, 10, 12, 27	NEW — Acts	”Anděl” is stable but often diluted in secular usage to a vague guardian-spirit/greeting-card figure; must retain the specific, purposive, message-bearing divine agency the text depicts.
71	Spirit of divination	duch věštění	High	Apostolic Authority and Miracles	16	NEW — Acts	Must be distinguished from the neutral/skeptical modern Czech association with “věštění” as pseudo-entertainment (tarot, horoscopes); the text presents real, opposing spiritual power that Paul confronts with authority.
72	Unknown god	neznámý bůh	Medium	The Gospel to Jews and Gentiles	17	NEW — Acts	Genuinely useful missiological model for secular Czech readers; flag as a positive apologetic pattern (engaging existing religious/spiritual vocabulary) rather than a risk to be corrected.
73	Living God	živý Bůh	Medium	The Gospel to Jews and Gentiles	14	NEW — Acts	Must be unpacked as personal and active, not merely “real” in an abstract philosophical sense — relevant given secular Czech culture’s default toward an impersonal “prime mover” concept rather than a live polytheistic alternative.
74	Son of Man	Syn člověka	High	Persecution and Bold Witness / Christology	7	NEW — Acts	Common misreading would emphasize mere humanity; the Danielic background actually signals a divine, exalted, judging figure — the opposite of the intuitive secular reading — requiring explicit correction.
75	Sanhedrin / Council	velerada	Low-Medium	Persecution and Bold Witness	4-6, 22-23	NEW — Acts	Established, recognizable historical/religious-studies term; low ambiguity but requires identification as a specific historical institution, not a generic modern “council.”
76	Roman citizen	římský občan	Low	Persecution and Bold Witness	16, 22, 23, 25	NEW — Acts	Standard historical/civic vocabulary; low doctrinal risk, useful cultural-historical background only.
77	Conversion / turning	obrácení	High	Conversion of Paul / Repentance and Baptism	3, 9, 11, 15, 26, 28	NEW — Acts	Tightly linked to Critical-tier pokání; the vivid “darkness to light” imagery (26:18) is a good teaching bridge since it requires no special cultural background to understand.
78	Inheritance (among the sanctified)	dědictví (mezi posvěcenými)	High	Adoption / Sanctification	20, 26	NEW — Acts	Reuses baseline posvěcení/svatí (High) in combination with adoption/inheritance imagery already Medium in baseline; ties Acts 26:18 to the fuller Romans salvation-package vocabulary.

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Section C — Verbatim-Consistency Verses (Cross-Document Mandatory)

The following Acts passages carry the same “must render identically across every document” status the baseline assigns to Romans 1:16–17, 8:28, and 10:9–10. Any deviation in Phase 2 must be flagged for mandatory theologian review.

Passage	Czech Rendering (mandatory)	Reason
Acts 1:8	”…budete mi svědky…až na konec země.”	Programmatic thesis statement for the entire book (Great Commission Fulfilled); bookends with 28:31.
Acts 2:21	”…každý, kdo vzývá jméno Páně, bude spasen.”	Salvation-universality formula; foundational Pentecost sermon verse.
Acts 2:36	”…Pánem a Mesiášem/Kristem ho učinil Bůh, toho Ježíše, kterého jste vy ukřižovali.”	Climactic Christological confession of the core passage; compounds two Critical baseline terms.
Acts 2:38	”Obraťte se [čiňte pokání] a každý z vás ať se dá pokřtít ve jménu Ježíše Krista na odpuštění hříchů, a přijmete dar Ducha svatého.”	The definitive Repentance-Baptism-Forgiveness-Spirit formula for the whole curriculum.
Acts 13:38-39	”…skrze něho se vám zvěstuje odpuštění hříchů, a to všeho, z čeho vás nemohl ospravedlnit Mojžíšův zákon; ale v něm je ospravedlněn každý, kdo věří.”	Acts’ own explicit Justification-apart-from-the-Law thesis statement; must match Romans 3-4 vocabulary exactly.
Acts 15:11	”Věříme, že jsme spaseni milostí Pána Ježíše…”	Single-clause synthesis of grace, faith, Lordship, and salvation doctrines; Jerusalem Council’s theological climax.
Acts 16:30-31	”Co mám dělat, abych byl spasen? … Věř v Pána Ježíše, a budeš spasen ty i tvůj dům.”	Companion formula to Romans 10:9-10; the Philippian jailer’s exchange.
Acts 28:31	”…kázal království Boží…bez jakékoli překážky.”	Closing bookend to 1:8; final demonstration of the Great Commission’s fulfillment.

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Section D — Chapters Reviewed with No New Load-Bearing Vocabulary

The following chapters were fully reviewed against the baseline and against Sections A–B above; each reuses previously established vocabulary without introducing new load-bearing theological terms requiring separate glossary entries:

• Chapter 18 (Corinth; Gallio’s tribunal) — reuses evangelium, Pán, and established synagogue-debate/opposition patterns from chs. 13–17.
• Chapter 21 (Warnings toward Jerusalem; Agabus’s prophecy) — reuses proroctví/prorok (Medium, baseline) and the established Spirit-guidance narrative pattern.
• Chapter 25 (Before Festus; appeal to Caesar) — legal-procedural narrative continuing chs. 22–24; no new theological vocabulary.

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Risk Summary

Risk Tier	Count (Reused)	Count (New)	Total
Critical	7	4	11
High	12	15	27
Medium	12	12	24
Low	8	4	12
Total terms	39	35	74

Note: counts reflect glossary entries in Sections A and B; several entries (e.g., “filled with the Holy Spirit,” “signs and wonders”) are phrase-level formulas rather than single lexical items, consistent with Acts’ heavier reliance on recurring narrative formulas compared to Romans’ more argumentative prose.

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This glossary extends, and must never contradict, the baseline Romans Language Package. All Section A renderings are binding exactly as recorded in translation_memory.json v1. Section B new terms must be added to translation_memory.json before Phase 2 translation begins, per the Translation Memory Load and Enforcement Instructions in 12_ai_translation_requirements.md, with Critical/High entries flagged for theologian review before finalization.

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Critical Risk Terms

Justification

Approved rendering: ospravedlnění
Doctrine: Justification apart from the Law
Rejected alternatives: ospravedlnění pouze v běžném smyslu ‘obhájení’ nebo ‘omluvení’ určitého jednání
Original: δικαίωσις / δικαιόω
Category: Salvation

Inherited from Romans package. Acts 13:38-39 is Acts’ own explicit thesis statement for this doctrine and MUST use vocabulary identical to Romans 3-4 for absolute cross-curriculum consistency. Occurs in a synagogue-sermon narrative register rather than an epistle’s sustained argument, arguably a harder rhetorical environment for introducing this Critical forensic concept from zero.

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Salvation

Approved rendering: spasení
Doctrine: Salvation
Rejected alternatives: spasení chápané pouze jako archaický, literární výraz bez skutečného obsahu
Original: σωτηρία / σῴζω
Category: Salvation

Inherited from Romans package. The single highest-frequency Critical term in the whole book of Acts (2:21,40,47; 4:12; 11:14; 13:26,47; 15:1,11; 16:17,30-31; 27:34; 28:28); occurs at the book’s structural high points including the Pentecost sermon’s climax and the Philippian jailer’s exchange. Never a bare label — always narrated (from what/to what/by whom) at every occurrence.

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Resurrection

Approved rendering: vzkříšení
Doctrine: Resurrection of Christ
Original: ἀνάστασις / ἀνίστημι
Category: Eschatology

Inherited from Romans package. Acts 17:32 shows sophisticated secular Athenians mocking specifically the bodily-resurrection claim (not monotheism generally) — a realistic model for the sharpest point of resistance a contemporary secular Czech audience is likely to raise. Acts 23:6-9 and 24:15 expand the doctrine’s scope to a general/universal resurrection of both righteous and unrighteous, taught as an addition to, not a replacement for, the specifically Christological resurrection emphasized at Pentecost.

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Lord

Approved rendering: Pán
Doctrine: Lordship of Christ
Rejected alternatives: pán s malým ‘p’ ve smyslu běžného zdvořilostního oslovení (‘pane’)
Original: κύριος
Category: Christology

Inherited from Romans package. Acts 2:36’s climactic ‘Pánem a Mesiášem/Kristem ho učinil Bůh’ and Acts 16:31’s salvation formula both require the same explanatory-note treatment mandated for Romans 10:9, since capitalization of Pán alone cannot reliably distinguish this from the everyday honorific ‘pane.‘

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Son Of God

Approved rendering: Syn Boží
Doctrine: Sonship of Christ
Original: υἱὸς θεοῦ
Category: Christology

Inherited from Romans package. Less frequent explicit occurrence in Acts than Romans (implicit at 9:20; background at 13:33 quoting Psalm 2) but retains full doctrinal weight wherever present; must not be confused with the believer’s adoptive sonship taught elsewhere in this curriculum.

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Messiah

Approved rendering: Mesiáš
Doctrine: Messianic Promise
Original: Χριστός / מָשִׁיחַ
Category: Christology

Inherited from Romans package. Acts 2:36’s compound title ‘Pán a Mesiáš/Kristus’ is the theological climax of the core passage; full OT messianic-expectation background required at every occurrence throughout Acts 2, 3, 5, 8, 9, 13, 17, 18, 26.

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Jesus

Approved rendering: Ježíš
Doctrine: Lordship of Christ
Original: Ἰησοῦς / יֵשׁוּעַ
Category: Christology

Inherited from Romans package. Occurs throughout Acts; the casual-exclamation register risk (‘Ježíšmarjá’) noted in baseline must be avoided in all formal Acts teaching material.

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God

Approved rendering: Bůh
Doctrine: Deity of Christ
Original: θεός / אֱלֹהִים / יהוה
Category: God

Inherited from Romans package. Occurs throughout Acts; the ‘proboha’ exclamatory-register risk persists.

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Holy Spirit

Approved rendering: Duch svatý
Doctrine: The Holy Spirit and Pentecost
Original: πνεῦμα ἅγιον
Category: God

Inherited from Romans package. The single most frequently recurring Critical term in Acts (chs. 1, 2, 4-10, 13, 15, 16, 19-21); must always be taught as a personal divine agent (cf. Acts 5:3-4, 7:51 — one who can be lied to and resisted), never an impersonal force — a sharper risk in Acts than Romans given the book’s narrative concreteness.

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Father

Approved rendering: Otec
Doctrine: Adoption into God’s Family
Original: πατήρ
Category: God

Inherited from Romans package. Lower frequency in Acts than Romans but retains full doctrinal weight (e.g. 2:33’s ‘received from the Father’).

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Imputed Righteousness

Approved rendering: přičtená spravedlnost
Doctrine: Justification by Faith
Rejected alternatives: spravedlnost vnímaná pouze jako výsledek vlastního mravního zlepšení
Original: ἐλογίσθη αὐτῷ εἰς δικαιοσύνην (theological category underlying Acts 13:38-39’s δικαιόω argument)
Category: Salvation

Inherited from Romans package. Acts 13:38-39 uses δικαιόω (justification) rather than the specific λογίζομαι (imputation) vocabulary of Romans 4, but the underlying doctrine is identical and must be taught with continuity to Romans 4’s Abraham narrative.

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Repentance

Approved rendering: pokání
Transliteration: metanoia
Doctrine: Repentance and Baptism
Rejected alternatives: pokání zúžené na pouhou lítost/omluvu, obrácení jako jediná náhrada (použito jako doplňkový, nikoli náhradní, výraz)
Original: μετάνοια / μετανοέω
Category: Repentance and Baptism

NEW for Acts. Recognizable Kralice/ČEP term at high risk of the same archaic-detachment pattern documented for spasení — a quasi-liturgical word with little live conceptual content, additionally at risk of narrowing to mere private remorse (near Czech ‘lítost’) rather than the whole-life reorientation (μετάνοια) Acts 2:38, 3:19, 11:18, 17:30, 26:20 describe. Must be paired with the explanatory gloss ‘obrácení / změna smýšlení a života’ on first substantive use in every document. Mandatory theologian review.

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Filled With The Holy Spirit

Approved rendering: naplněný/naplněni Duchem svatým
Transliteration: eplēsthēsan / plērēs Pneumatos Hagiou
Doctrine: The Holy Spirit and Pentecost
Rejected alternatives: naplnění chápané jako pouhé emocionální vzrušení nebo extáze
Original: ἐπλήσθησαν / πλήρης Πνεύματος Ἁγίου
Category: Holy Spirit and Pentecost

NEW for Acts (phrase-level formula, inherits Duch svatý’s Critical tier). No existing category in secular Czech everyday experience for being ‘filled’ by a distinct divine person; must be taught concretely as empowerment for witness (2:4; 4:8,31; 6:3,5; 9:17; 13:9; 19:6), never psychologized as emotional excitement. Must be rendered identically at every recurrence.

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Savior

Approved rendering: Spasitel
Transliteration: sōtēr
Doctrine: Salvation
Rejected alternatives: Spasitel použit jako pouhý dekorativní/vánoční titul bez narativního obsahu
Original: σωτήρ
Category: Salvation

NEW for Acts; root-linked to Critical-tier spasení. At high risk of registering only as an archaic, Christmas-carol-adjacent devotional word (‘Kristus Spasitel se narodil’) emptied of doctrinal content (Acts 5:31; 13:23). Must never stand as a bare title without accompanying narrative content.

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Purchased With Blood

Approved rendering: vykoupil / získal svou vlastní krví
Transliteration: periepoiēsato dia tou haimatos tou idiou
Doctrine: Atonement of Christ
Rejected alternatives: vágní metafora ‘velká cena’ bez konkrétního obětního obsahu, čtení ‘krev Boží’ způsobem naznačujícím modalismus
Original: περιεποιήσατο διὰ τοῦ αἵματος τοῦ ἰδίου
Category: Salvation

NEW for Acts. Atonement language requiring the same rigor as Romans 3:25’s propitiation material; must not be diluted into a vague metaphor for ‘great cost’ divorced from its specific sacrificial/substitutionary content (Acts 20:28); mandatory theologian review per escalation rules. Follow ČEP’s critical-text ‘svou vlastní krví’ reading, never a fringe-translation variant.

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High Risk Terms

Gospel

Approved rendering: evangelium
Doctrine: Gospel
Original: εὐαγγέλιον
Category: Salvation

Inherited from Romans package. In Acts the term is used as both noun and active verb (εὐαγγελίζομαι, 8:4,12,25,35,40) describing ongoing cross-cultural proclamation, not a static label; must convey an authoritative announcement being actively carried across ethnic and geographic boundaries. Still requires active definition at first substantive use in this curriculum; no inherited meaning may be assumed.

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Grace

Approved rendering: milost
Doctrine: Grace
Original: χάρις
Category: Salvation

Inherited from Romans package. Acts 15:11 combines grace with faith, Lordship, and salvation in a single clause (mandatory theologian review); Acts 4:33 applies ‘veliká milost’ corporately to the whole community, an extension beyond individual salvation worth flagging in teaching material. Must never collapse into milost’s ordinary Czech sense of judicial clemency.

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Faith

Approved rendering: víra
Doctrine: Faith
Rejected alternatives: víra v obecném slova smyslu (např. ‘víra v sebe sama’)
Original: πίστις
Category: Faith

Inherited from Romans package. Acts 16:31’s explicit object ‘Pán Ježíš’ must always be recoverable; secular Czech readers will otherwise default to a generic self-confidence reading of víra.

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Righteousness

Approved rendering: spravedlnost
Doctrine: Salvation
Rejected alternatives: spravedlnost výhradně v moderním občanském/právním smyslu
Original: δικαιοσύνη
Category: Salvation

Inherited from Romans package. Acts 24:25 pairs spravedlnost with self-control and coming judgment before a Roman governor, a civic/legal context where the everyday ‘fairness’ sense is especially likely to dominate; the forensic sense must be actively supplied.

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Calling

Approved rendering: povolání
Doctrine: Divine Calling
Rejected alternatives: povolání výhradně ve smyslu civilního zaměstnání či profese
Original: κλῆσις
Category: Salvation

Inherited from Romans package. Acts 1:25’s ‘ministry and apostleship’ (diakonie a apoštolství) reinforces that this is a sovereign summons to a task, not the ordinary Czech vocational sense of ‘Jaké je vaše povolání?’ — Czech’s single strongest and most automatic word-association nationwide.

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Saints

Approved rendering: svatí
Doctrine: Sainthood
Rejected alternatives: svatí výhradně jako historické, kanonizované osobnosti vzdálené od běžného čtenáře
Original: ἅγιοι
Category: Church

Inherited from Romans package. Acts 9:13,32,41 and 26:10 use svatí as an ordinary designation for believers under persecution. Unlike most terms in this package, the Czech calendar’s name-day custom is an ACTIVE, still-practiced competing association (not dormant), requiring the mandatory-flag translator note to be applied with real discipline at every occurrence.

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Sanctification

Approved rendering: posvěcení
Doctrine: Sanctification
Rejected alternatives: posvěcení výhradně jako rituální/symbolický akt bez trvalého obsahu
Original: ἁγιασμός
Category: Sanctification

Inherited from Romans package. Acts 20:32 and 26:18 both tie this term to inheritance/adoption imagery; must be distinguished from the ceremonial-blessing-of-a-building sense familiar from Czech church-heritage tourism.

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Incarnation

Approved rendering: vtělení
Doctrine: Incarnation
Original: ὁ λόγος σὰρξ ἐγένετο (theological category; cf. Acts 2:22, 13:23’s ‘seed of David… according to the flesh’)
Category: Christology

Inherited from Romans package. Acts supplies less direct vocabulary for this doctrine than Romans 1:3, but the underlying claim (real human nature assumed by the eternal Son) undergirds Acts 2:22’s ‘Jesus the Nazarene’ and 13:23’s Davidic descent.

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Law

Approved rendering: zákon
Doctrine: Justification apart from the Law
Original: νόμος
Category: Covenant

Inherited from Romans package. Acts 13:38-39 and 15:10 (‘jho, které nemohli unést ani naši otcové, ani my’) are Acts’ central Justification-apart-from-the-Law texts and must use vocabulary identical to Romans for absolute cross-curriculum consistency.

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Sin

Approved rendering: hřích
Doctrine: Universal Human Accountability
Rejected alternatives: hřích s oslabeným, žertovným významem
Original: ἁμαρτία
Category: Sin

Inherited from Romans package. Acts 2:37-38’s conviction-and-repentance sequence depends entirely on hřích retaining full moral seriousness against its colloquial Czech flattening to ‘what a shame/pity.‘

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Obedience Of Faith

Approved rendering: poslušnost víry
Doctrine: Obedience of Faith
Original: ὑπακοὴ πίστεως
Category: Faith

Inherited from Romans package. Lower explicit frequency in Acts than Romans, present conceptually wherever repentance/faith and changed life are linked (e.g. Acts 26:20’s ‘deeds appropriate to repentance’).

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Covenant

Approved rendering: smlouva
Doctrine: Davidic Covenant
Rejected alternatives: smlouva výhradně jako běžná obchodní nebo právní smlouva
Original: διαθήκη
Category: Covenant

Inherited from Romans package. Acts 3:25’s ‘covenant God made with your fathers’ and 7:8’s covenant of circumcision require the same OT background scaffolding as Romans; must not collapse into the ordinary commercial-contract sense.

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Election

Approved rendering: vyvolení
Doctrine: Effectual Calling
Rejected alternatives: vyvolení v běžném, sekulárním smyslu úspěchu nebo výběru
Original: ἐκλογή / ἐκλέγομαι
Category: Salvation

Inherited from Romans package. Acts 9:15’s ‘chosen instrument’ (vyvolený nástroj) and 13:48’s ‘appointed to eternal life’ are concrete narrative embodiments requiring theologian review per the predestination-language escalation rule; narratively embodied in specific individuals in a way Romans’ abstract argument is not, which makes the competitive-selection secular reading especially tempting.

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Baptism

Approved rendering: křest
Transliteration: baptisma / baptizō
Doctrine: Repentance and Baptism
Rejected alternatives: křest vnímaný pouze jako rodinná/kulturní obřadní tradice bez pokání a víry
Original: βάπτισμα / βαπτίζω
Category: Repentance and Baptism

NEW for Acts. Unlike most terms in this package, křest is culturally FAMILIAR to secular Czechs (infant christening as family tradition) — but this familiarity is itself the risk: the folk-cultural association is detached from the repentance-and-faith content Acts 2:38, 8:12,36-38, 9:18, 10:47-48, 16:33, 18:8, 19:5, 22:16 require. Must be actively distinguished from this cultural default at every occurrence.

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Tongues

Approved rendering: jazyky
Transliteration: glōssai
Doctrine: The Holy Spirit and Pentecost
Rejected alternatives: jazyky jako neurčitá extatická mluva bez konkrétního jazykového obsahu
Original: γλῶσσαι
Category: Holy Spirit and Pentecost

NEW for Acts. Must be rendered so as to clearly denote actual foreign languages in Acts 2 (confirmed by the nation list, vv.8-11) and in Acts 10:46, 19:6; risk of readers collapsing this with the later, distinct Pauline usage (1 Corinthians) without the distinction being explicitly taught.

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Pentecost

Approved rendering: Letnice
Transliteration: pentēkostē
Doctrine: The Holy Spirit and Pentecost
Rejected alternatives: pouhé opsání jako ‘svátek padesáti dnů’ bez pojmenování Letnice
Original: πεντηκοστή
Category: Holy Spirit and Pentecost

NEW for Acts. Established ČEP/Kralice term with almost no residual cultural footprint in secular Czech life, unlike Easter (Velikonoce) or Christmas — no folk customs, no public-holiday recognition. Must be actively explained as a specific historical Jewish harvest festival (Shavuot) at first use, not assumed recognizable.

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Witness

Approved rendering: svědek / svědectví
Transliteration: martys / martyria / martyreō
Doctrine: Persecution and Bold Witness
Original: μάρτυς / μαρτυρία / μαρτυρέω
Category: Persecution and Bold Witness

NEW for Acts. Unusually, the ordinary secular Czech legal-witness sense is a HELPFUL bridge (firsthand, testable testimony) rather than a distortion. Risk is instead ensuring the specific content witnessed (the resurrection) stays attached to the term (1:8; 2:32; 4:33; 22:20; 26:16), and tracking its development into ‘mučeník’ (martyr) at Acts 7, since Czech requires two separate words where Greek uses one.

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Boldness

Approved rendering: smělost / odvaha
Transliteration: parrēsia
Doctrine: Persecution and Bold Witness
Rejected alternatives: smělost jako pouhá vrozená povahová vlastnost
Original: παρρησία
Category: Persecution and Bold Witness

NEW for Acts. Everyday Czech reads this as an innate personality trait; must be taught as a Spirit-produced fruit directly linked to being filled with the Spirit (Acts 4:8,13,29,31), not natural courage or bravado.

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Signs And Wonders

Approved rendering: divy a znamení
Transliteration: sēmeia kai terata
Doctrine: Apostolic Authority and Miracles
Rejected alternatives: zázraky v smyslu kouzelnických triků nebo zábavní magie
Original: σημεῖα καὶ τέρατα
Category: Apostolic Authority and Miracles

NEW for Acts (phrase-level technical formula). Must function as a stable, recurring formula throughout the whole curriculum (2:19,22,43; 3:1-10; 4:30; 5:12; 6:8; 8:6-13; 14:3; 15:12; 19:11-12); risk of readers treating these as generic entertainment-style miracles rather than God’s self-authenticating confirmation of apostolic proclamation.

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The Way

Approved rendering: Cesta
Transliteration: hē hodos
Doctrine: Christian Identity in Christ
Rejected alternatives: cesta psáno malým písmenem bez vysvětlující glosy, riziko čtení jako pouhá ‘silnice’
Original: ἡ ὁδός
Category: Church

NEW for Acts. As a bare common noun, cesta carries zero built-in religious signal in Czech; must be explicitly capitalized AND glossed as a proper technical designation for the earliest Christian movement (9:2; 19:9,23; 22:4; 24:14,22), or it will read merely as ‘the road’ with total doctrinal-content loss.

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Circumcision

Approved rendering: obřízka
Transliteration: peritomē
Doctrine: Justification apart from the Law
Original: περιτομή
Category: Covenant

NEW for Acts. Linguistically stable, but the underlying controversy (is a physical, ethnic-religious marker required for salvation?) has no live cultural referent for a secular Czech reader, unlike readers from Torah-observant or Islamic-heritage backgrounds; requires full background scaffolding (7:8; 10:45; 11:2-3; 15:1,5; 16:3; 21:21).

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Clean Unclean

Approved rendering: obecné / nečisté
Transliteration: koinos / akathartos
Doctrine: The Gospel to Jews and Gentiles
Rejected alternatives: výklad omezený pouze na dietní pravidla bez propojení s otázkou zahrnutí pohanů
Original: κοινός / ἀκάθαρτος
Category: Gospel to Jews and Gentiles

NEW for Acts. Czech has no live ritual-purity culture to activate; the vision’s real point (a purity category reassigned to a PEOPLE category, 10:14-15,28) requires explicit narrative explanation or it risks reading as merely a story about dietary rules.

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No Partiality

Approved rendering: nikomu nestraní / nedělá rozdíly mezi lidmi
Transliteration: ou…prosōpolēptēs
Doctrine: Unity of Jews and Gentiles
Rejected alternatives: obecná platitida o spravedlnosti bez vazby na etnické/sociální zahrnutí
Original: οὐ…προσωπολήπτης
Category: Gospel to Jews and Gentiles

NEW for Acts. Must retain the specifically ethnic/status-inclusive force of Acts 10:34’s climactic conclusion to the whole Cornelius narrative, not read as a generic fairness platitude.

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Ascension

Approved rendering: nanebevstoupení / byl vzat nahoru
Transliteration: anelēmphthē / analēmpsis
Doctrine: Ascension and Exaltation of Christ
Original: ἀνελήμφθη / ἀνάλημψις
Category: Christology

NEW for Acts; no baseline equivalent. Must be clearly distinguished from vzkříšení (resurrection) as a separate, subsequent historical event (Acts 1:9-11); a secular reader has no framework for a bodily ascent into heaven as historical fact rather than legend.

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Archegos

Approved rendering: vůdce / původce
Transliteration: archēgos
Doctrine: Apostolic Authority and Miracles
Rejected alternatives: jednoslovné novotvary snažící se sloučit ‘zakladatel’ a ‘vůdce’ do jednoho výrazu
Original: ἀρχηγός
Category: Christology

NEW for Acts. No single Czech word captures both ‘founder’ and ‘pioneering leader who goes first’; requires an explanatory phrase (‘ten, kdo jako první otevřel cestu ke spasení’) rather than a bare noun (Acts 3:15; 5:31), or the Christological force is lost.

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Determined Plan Foreknowledge

Approved rendering: ustanovený úmysl / předzvědění (Boží)
Transliteration: hōrismenē boulē kai prognōsis
Doctrine: Providence
Rejected alternatives: výklad, který popírá buď Boží plán, nebo lidskou vinu za ukřižování
Original: ὡρισμένη βουλή καὶ πρόγνωσις
Category: God

NEW for Acts; closely tied to already-High-risk providence and election. The hard providence/human-responsibility tension in Acts 2:23 and 4:28 (God’s plan AND human guilt for the crucifixion) requires careful compatibilist framing in teaching material, not simple resolution in either direction.

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Forgiveness Of Sins

Approved rendering: odpuštění hříchů
Transliteration: aphesis tōn hamartiōn
Doctrine: Repentance and Baptism
Rejected alternatives: odpuštění chápané jen jako vágní ‘překonání’ minulých chyb
Original: ἄφεσις τῶν ἁμαρτιῶν
Category: Salvation

NEW for Acts. Depends entirely on hřích retaining real moral weight; must be taught as a genuine legal/relational debt-cancellation (2:38; 5:31; 10:43; 13:38; 26:18), not vague ‘getting over’ past mistakes.

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Gift Of The Holy Spirit

Approved rendering: dar Ducha svatého
Transliteration: dōrea tou Hagiou Pneumatos
Doctrine: The Holy Spirit and Pentecost
Rejected alternatives: dar chápaný jako odměna za správně provedené pokání, dar jako kupovatelná komodita (srov. Šimon Kouzelník)
Original: δωρεὰ τοῦ Ἁγίου Πνεύματος
Category: Holy Spirit and Pentecost

NEW for Acts; parallel to baseline grace. ‘Dar’ must be read as free and unearned, not a reward for correctly performed repentance, and explicitly not a purchasable commodity (contrast Simon Magus, Acts 8:20); occurs at 2:38; 8:20; 10:45; 11:17.

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Spirit Of Divination

Approved rendering: duch věštění
Transliteration: pneuma pythōnos
Doctrine: Apostolic Authority and Miracles
Rejected alternatives: věštění jako neutrální pseudozábava (tarot, horoskopy)
Original: πνεῦμα πύθωνος
Category: Apostolic Authority and Miracles

NEW for Acts. Must be clearly distinguished from the neutral/skeptical modern Czech association with ‘věštění’ as pseudo-entertainment; the text (16:16-18) presents real, opposing spiritual power that Paul confronts with authority.

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Son Of Man

Approved rendering: Syn člověka
Transliteration: huios tou anthrōpou
Doctrine: Deity of Christ
Rejected alternatives: Syn člověka vykládaný jako důraz na pouhé lidství
Original: υἱὸς τοῦ ἀνθρώπου
Category: Christology

NEW for Acts. A common misreading, if the phrase registers at all with a secular reader, would take ‘Son of Man’ as emphasizing plain humanity, when the Danielic background (echoed in Stephen’s vision, Acts 7:56) signals the opposite: a divine, exalted, judging figure. Requires explicit correction; mandatory theologian review.

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Conversion

Approved rendering: obrácení
Transliteration: epistrephō
Doctrine: Conversion of Paul
Original: ἐπιστρέφω
Category: Repentance and Baptism

NEW for Acts; tightly linked to Critical-tier repentance. The vivid ‘darkness to light’ imagery of Acts 26:18 is a good teaching bridge since it requires no special cultural background to understand, unlike more abstract renderings of the same concept. Also serves as the preferred explanatory gloss accompanying ‘pokání’ at first use.

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Inheritance Among Sanctified

Approved rendering: dědictví mezi posvěcenými
Transliteration: klēron en tois hēgiasmenois
Doctrine: Sanctification
Original: κλῆρον ἐν τοῖς ἡγιασμένοις
Category: Sanctification

NEW for Acts. Reuses baseline posvěcení/svatí (High) in combination with adoption/inheritance imagery already Medium in baseline; ties Acts 26:18 to the fuller Romans salvation-package vocabulary and must not be treated as a merely decorative phrase.

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Medium Risk Terms

Called

Approved rendering: povolaný
Doctrine: Divine Calling
Original: κλητός
Category: Salvation

Inherited from Romans package. Acts 13:2’s Spirit-initiated commissioning and 9:15’s ‘chosen instrument’ narratively embody this term; context must be checked per occurrence as in Romans.

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Holy

Approved rendering: svatý
Doctrine: Sanctification
Original: ἅγιος
Category: Sanctification

Inherited from Romans package. Acts 3:14’s compound title ‘ὁ ἅγιος καὶ δίκαιος’ (Svatý a Spravedlivý) applies this Christologically alongside righteousness, compounding two High/Critical baseline terms in a single title.

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Adoption

Approved rendering: přijetí za syna
Doctrine: Adoption into God’s Family
Original: υἱοθεσία
Category: Salvation

Inherited from Romans package. Lower explicit frequency in Acts than Romans 8, but present conceptually in Acts 26:18’s inheritance-among-the-sanctified imagery; the legal-adoption parallel (‘adopce’) remains well understood, but the specific theological content still needs unpacking.

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Peace

Approved rendering: pokoj
Doctrine: Peace with God
Rejected alternatives: pokoj ve smyslu pouhého klidu či nepřítomnosti hluku
Original: εἰρήνη
Category: Salvation

Inherited from Romans package. Acts 10:36’s ‘preaching peace through Jesus Christ’ and 9:31’s ‘the church had peace’ both use this term; distinguish from the everyday Czech sense of mere quiet.

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Spiritual Gifts

Approved rendering: duchovní dary
Doctrine: Spiritual Gifts
Original: χαρίσματα (cf. Acts 2:4, 17-18; 19:6’s concrete instances of tongues and prophecy)
Category: Church

Inherited from Romans package. Acts gives this doctrine concrete narrative instances (tongues, prophecy) rather than Romans’ more abstract listing; the underlying concept of the Spirit distributing gifts still needs foundational explanation.

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Church

Approved rendering: církev
Doctrine: Church as Community
Rejected alternatives: kostel (budova) namísto společenství věřících
Original: ἐκκλησία
Category: Church

Inherited from Romans package (baseline doctrine name ‘Church as God’s People’; renamed ‘Church as Community’ for this curriculum per doctrine_risk_registry.json Acts). Occurs throughout Acts 2, 5, 8, 9, 11-20; must be kept distinct from ‘kostel’ and from the architectural/touristic heritage-site association many secular readers bring.

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Kingdom Of God

Approved rendering: království Boží
Doctrine: Kingdom Mission
Original: βασιλεία τοῦ θεοῦ
Category: Kingdom

Inherited from Romans package. Acts 1:6 depicts the disciples’ own mistaken, politically-nationalist expectation of the kingdom as a teaching foil the text itself corrects; Acts 28:31 closes the whole book on this term.

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Gentiles

Approved rendering: pohané
Doctrine: Unity of Jews and Gentiles
Original: ἔθνη
Category: Church

Inherited from Romans package. Carries the primary Gentile-inclusion narrative of the entire book (9-11, 13-15, 18, 21, 22, 26, 28); use ‘národy’ where a more neutral sense is intended, especially in OT-quotation contexts like Acts 13:47.

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Glory

Approved rendering: sláva
Doctrine: Deity of Christ
Rejected alternatives: sláva ve smyslu světské slávy či úspěchu
Original: δόξα
Category: God

Inherited from Romans package. Occurs at Acts 7:55 (Stephen seeing the glory of God) and 12:23 (Herod’s judgment for taking glory to himself, a useful teaching contrast); must be kept distinct from the ordinary Czech sense of worldly fame.

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Power Of God

Approved rendering: moc Boží
Doctrine: Power of God for Salvation
Original: δύναμις θεοῦ
Category: God

Inherited from Romans package. Acts 2:22’s triad ‘mocnými skutky, divy a znameními’ extends this into a recurring technical formula unique to Acts’ narrative pattern (2:22,43; 3:1-10; 4:30; 5:12; 14:3; 15:12).

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Prophet

Approved rendering: prorok
Doctrine: Inspiration of Scripture
Rejected alternatives: prorok ve smyslu věštce nebo jasnovidce
Original: προφήτης
Category: Covenant

Inherited from Romans package. Acts 2:16’s citation of the prophet Joel is the core passage’s central prophetic anchor; must be kept distinct from Czech pop-cultural ‘prorokovat’ (predicting trends).

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Prophecy

Approved rendering: proroctví
Doctrine: Fulfillment of Prophecy
Rejected alternatives: proroctví jako věštba nebo předpověď budoucnosti
Original: προφητεία
Category: Covenant

Inherited from Romans package. Acts 11:27-28’s Agabus and 21:10-11’s specific predictive prophecy reinforce this term; must be actively distinguished from Acts 16:16’s occult ‘spirit of divination,’ a contrast unique to Acts not present in Romans.

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Intercession

Approved rendering: přímluva
Doctrine: Prayer and Intercession
Original: δέησις / προσευχή ὑπέρ (cf. Acts 12:5’s church praying for Peter)
Category: Faith

Inherited from Romans package. Lower direct occurrence in Acts than Romans 8; retained for consistency wherever prayer-on-behalf-of-others appears (e.g. Acts 12:5,12).

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Providence

Approved rendering: prozřetelnost Boží
Doctrine: Providence
Rejected alternatives: prozřetelnost v obecném, neosobním smyslu ‘osudu’ nebo ‘štěstí’
Original: πρόνοια (cf. Acts 17:26-28’s ‘he determined the times… that they should seek God’)
Category: God

Inherited from Romans package. Acts 27’s extended shipwreck narrative illustrates providence working through ordinary means (sailors’ skill, practical provisions), a useful expansion beyond Romans 8:28’s more compact statement.

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Mission

Approved rendering: misie
Doctrine: Mission to the Nations
Original: ἀποστολή / πέμπω / ἀφορίζω
Category: Church

Inherited from Romans package. Acts 1:8 and 13:1-3 are the book’s programmatic mission-commissioning texts; mild colonial/NGO-humanitarian connotation risk persists in contemporary secular usage.

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Abba

Approved rendering: Abba
Doctrine: Adoption into God’s Family
Original: אַבָּא
Category: God

Inherited from Romans package. Not directly quoted in Acts but retained for cross-curriculum consistency wherever adoption/inheritance imagery appears (Acts 26:18).

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Seed Of David

Approved rendering: potomek Davidův
Doctrine: Davidic Covenant
Original: σπέρμα Δαυίδ
Category: Covenant

Inherited from Romans package. Acts 13:23 reuses this exactly (‘z jeho potomstva’); requires the same Davidic-covenant background scaffolding as Romans 1:3.

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Laying On Of Hands

Approved rendering: vzkládání rukou
Transliteration: epithesis tōn cheirōn
Doctrine: Apostolic Authority and Miracles
Rejected alternatives: vzkládání rukou jako přenos kupovatelné ‘duchovní síly’
Original: ἐπίθεσις τῶν χειρῶν
Category: Apostolic Authority and Miracles

NEW for Acts. Must be distinguished from a transactional, magical ‘spiritual commodity,’ as Simon Magus wrongly assumes in Acts 8:17-19; signifies apostolic blessing/commissioning (6:6; 8:17; 9:17; 13:3; 19:6).

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God Fearer

Approved rendering: bohabojný
Transliteration: phoboumenos ton theon
Doctrine: The Gospel to Jews and Gentiles
Rejected alternatives: bohabojný chápaný jen jako obecně ‘zbožný člověk’
Original: φοβούμενος τὸν θεόν
Category: Gospel to Jews and Gentiles

NEW for Acts. A specific historical/social category (10:2,22,35; 13:16,26) with no modern equivalent; risk of flattening to a generic ‘religious/pious person’ without the liminal in-between status that gives Cornelius’s story its doctrinal force.

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Promise

Approved rendering: zaslíbení
Transliteration: epangelia
Doctrine: The Holy Spirit and Pentecost
Original: ἐπαγγελία
Category: Covenant

NEW for Acts; tightly linked to covenant (High). A promise is only fully meaningful against covenant background, which cannot be assumed for a secular reader; occurs at 1:4; 2:33,39; 13:32.

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Sect

Approved rendering: sekta
Transliteration: hairesis
Doctrine: The Church as Community
Rejected alternatives: opisný výraz ‘náboženská skupina’ namísto zavedeného slova ‘sekta’
Original: αἵρεσις
Category: Church

NEW for Acts. Modern Czech ‘sekta’ carries a strongly negative, often cult-associated connotation absent from the more neutral ancient usage (‘the sect of the Nazarenes,’ 24:5,14; 28:22); flag risk of anachronistic negative coloring when the term describes outsiders’ perception of the earliest church. This is one of only two terms in this Language Package where the risk runs opposite the usual pattern — the word is not empty, but wrongly full.

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Elder Overseer Shepherd

Approved rendering: starší / dohlížitel / pastýř
Transliteration: presbyteroi / episkopoi / poimēn
Doctrine: The Church as Community
Rejected alternatives: biskup jako výchozí překlad ἐπίσκοπος
Original: πρεσβύτεροι / ἐπίσκοποι / ποιμήν
Category: Church

NEW for Acts. ‘Biskup’ carries strong, specific Roman Catholic institutional associations that would import unwarranted hierarchical assumptions into this early, comparatively informal usage in Acts 20:17,28; recommend ‘starší’ as primary rendering with ‘dohlížitel’ as clarifying gloss.

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Vision

Approved rendering: vidění
Transliteration: horama / horasis
Doctrine: Conversion of Paul
Rejected alternatives: vidění jako pouhý sen nebo subjektivní pocit/intuice
Original: ὅραμα / ὅρασις
Category: God

NEW for Acts. Central to both Paul’s conversion (ch.9) and Cornelius’s episode (ch.10), and recurring at 16:9-10; 18:9; 26:19; must be taught as real, specific divine communication, not vague spiritual intuition or coincidence.

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Angel Of The Lord

Approved rendering: anděl Páně
Transliteration: angelos Kyriou
Doctrine: Persecution and Bold Witness
Rejected alternatives: anděl jako vágní strážný duch nebo motiv z přání k narozeninám
Original: ἄγγελος Κυρίου
Category: God

NEW for Acts. ‘Anděl’ is stable but often diluted in secular usage to a vague guardian-spirit or greeting-card figure; must retain the specific, purposive, message-bearing divine agency this text depicts (5:19; 8:26; 10:3-7; 12:7-11,23; 27:23).

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Unknown God

Approved rendering: neznámý bůh
Transliteration: agnōstos theos
Doctrine: The Gospel to Jews and Gentiles
Original: ἄγνωστος θεός
Category: Gospel to Jews and Gentiles

NEW for Acts. Genuinely useful missiological model for secular Czech readers; flag as a positive apologetic pattern (Acts 17:23) — engaging existing religious/spiritual vocabulary rather than dismissing it — of particular relevance to a post-religious, spiritually-curious audience.

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Living God

Approved rendering: živý Bůh
Transliteration: theos zōn
Doctrine: The Gospel to Jews and Gentiles
Rejected alternatives: ‘živý’ chápáno pouze jako ‘skutečný’ v abstraktním filosofickém smyslu
Original: θεὸς ζῶν
Category: God

NEW for Acts. Must be unpacked as personal and active, not merely ‘real’ in an abstract philosophical sense; relevant given secular Czech culture’s default toward an impersonal ‘prime mover’ concept rather than a live polytheistic alternative (Acts 14:15).

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Low Risk Terms

Apostle

Approved rendering: apoštol
Doctrine: Apostleship
Original: ἀπόστολος
Category: Church

Inherited from Romans package. Acts 1:15-26’s replacement of Judas and 14:14’s application to Barnabas show the office as a defined, transferable function; requires brief narrative grounding about the Twelve for readers unfamiliar with the Gospels.

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Thanksgiving

Approved rendering: díkůvzdání
Doctrine: Thanksgiving
Original: εὐχαριστία / εὐχαριστέω
Category: Faith

Inherited from Romans package. Low-frequency but present (27:35’s giving of thanks before the shared meal, 28:15’s thanksgiving on seeing fellow believers at Rome).

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Fellowship

Approved rendering: společenství
Doctrine: Christian Fellowship
Original: κοινωνία
Category: Church

Inherited from Romans package. Acts 2:42 gives it concrete communal content (teaching, breaking of bread, prayers), directly grounding the founding description of the church’s daily life.

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David

Approved rendering: David
Doctrine: Davidic Covenant
Original: דָּוִד
Category: Covenant

Inherited from Romans package. Standard proper name, occurring throughout Peter’s and Paul’s Old Testament argumentation (Acts 2, 4, 7, 13, 15).

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Israel

Approved rendering: Izrael
Doctrine: Unity of Jews and Gentiles
Original: יִשְׂרָאֵל
Category: Covenant

Inherited from Romans package. Contemporary-nation-state association risk persists exactly as noted in baseline, especially relevant given Acts’ extensive Jewish-Gentile narrative content (1, 2, 5, 7, 9, 10, 13, 21, 26, 28).

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Exhort

Approved rendering: povzbuzovat
Doctrine: Mutual Edification
Original: παρακαλέω
Category: Faith

Inherited from Romans package. Acts 2:40 and 14:22 (‘encouraging them to continue in the faith’) reuse this exactly.

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Christian

Approved rendering: křesťan
Transliteration: Christianos
Doctrine: Christian Identity in Christ
Original: Χριστιανός
Category: Church

NEW for Acts. Unusually low-risk for this Language Package — stable and universally recognized — but its ordinary secular usage (a cultural-heritage label, ‘nominally raised Catholic/Protestant’) may UNDERSHOOT the costly, decisive identity Acts 11:26 depicts; a brief contrast note is worthwhile though the term itself needs no substitution.

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Sanhedrin

Approved rendering: velerada
Transliteration: synedrion
Doctrine: Persecution and Bold Witness
Rejected alternatives: rada v obecném, moderním civilním smyslu
Original: συνέδριον
Category: Persecution and Bold Witness

NEW for Acts. An established, recognizable historical/religious-studies term in Czech, low ambiguity, though requires a brief note identifying it as a specific historical institution (4-6; 22-23), not a generic modern ‘council.‘

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Roman Citizen

Approved rendering: římský občan
Transliteration: politēs Rhōmaios
Doctrine: Persecution and Bold Witness
Original: πολίτης Ῥωμαῖος
Category: Persecution and Bold Witness

NEW for Acts. Standard historical/civic vocabulary (16, 22, 23, 25); low doctrinal risk, useful cultural-historical background showing Paul’s use of legitimate legal means alongside bold witness.