Doctrine Analysis — Ephesians 1–6 (English → Czech)

Purpose

This document provides the full doctrine matrix for the Ephesians curriculum, extending the Romans baseline Language Package for Czech (translation_memory.json, bible_term_registry.json, doctrine_risk_registry.json). It maps every chapter of Ephesians, first to last, to the nine governing curriculum doctrines, assigns risk tiers, states the specific translation risk driving that tier, and records the review routing. Doctrine names, risk tiers, and routing are fully consistent with assets/doctrine_risk_registry.json; this document exists to show the chapter-by-chapter derivation behind that registry and to certify full-book coverage per the PRD Phase 1 mandate. Sections of the text that introduce no new doctrinal content are explicitly noted as reviewed, never silently omitted.

As with the Romans baseline, the governing risk pattern for this Language Package is not a rival theological framework overwriting Paul’s meaning, but a largely secular readership either (a) having no prior conceptual category to activate for a term at all, or (b) defaulting to a stable, well-formed Czech word’s ordinary secular meaning (a job application, a product warranty, a national economy, a detective novel’s mystery, a school teacher) in the complete absence of a competing religious framework to correct against. Ephesians additionally surfaces one term — tajemství (mystery) — whose secular meaning runs in the opposite direction from Paul’s usage, the single highest-collision risk identified anywhere in this Language Package to date.

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Chapter 1

1:1–2 — Salutation

No new doctrinal content. Terms (apoštol, svatí, milost, pokoj) reuse Romans baseline renderings exactly. Reviewed — no escalation required.

1:3–14 — The Berakah: Blessing, Election, Redemption, Sealing

Doctrine	Supporting Passages	Risk	Translation Risk	Review Routing
Election and Predestination in Christ	1:4–5, 1:9, 1:11	High	”Předurčení” and “vyvolení” name a personal, gracious, pre-temporal divine choice “in Christ” for which most readers have no existing conceptual category at all, unlike the Romans baseline’s parallel risk of a wrong category (competitive job/sports selection) needing correction.	Human theologian
Salvation by Grace through Faith	1:7	Critical	Vykoupení (redemption) collides with the commercial sense of “vykoupit” (buying out shares/debt); must clarify that Christ, not the believer, pays the price. Odpuštění (forgiveness) is stable but must be tied concretely to this price, not left as generic pardon.	Human theologian
The Mystery of Christ Revealed	1:9–10	Critical	First occurrence of tajemství; establishes the term’s meaning for the entire letter. Ordinary Czech “tajemství” evokes a withheld, intriguing secret — nearly the inverse of Paul’s sense of a plan now disclosed.	Human theologian

1:15–19 — Prayer for Enlightenment

Doctrine	Supporting Passages	Risk	Translation Risk	Review Routing
Election and Predestination in Christ	1:18 (klēronomia, “riches of his inheritance”)	High	Dědictví risks importing ordinary Czech probate-law assumptions (contested estates, wills) into a covenantal inheritance guaranteed, not contested.	Human theologian
Gifts for Building Up the Church (background)	1:18 (calling)	Medium	Reuses baseline “povolání” risk (secular-vocational default).	Native speaker review

1:20–23 — Christ’s Resurrection, Exaltation, and Headship over the Church

Doctrine	Supporting Passages	Risk	Translation Risk	Review Routing
The Church as the Body of Christ	1:22–23	Critical	First occurrence of hlava (head) and plnost (fullness) applied to the church; tělo here must do double duty against σάρξ (“flesh,” used negatively elsewhere) — context-glossing required to prevent conflation.	Human theologian
(Baseline) Resurrection of Christ	1:20	Critical	Reuses Romans baseline Critical term vzkříšení; retains the same Easter/pomlázka folk-custom detachment risk documented there.	Human theologian

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Chapter 2

2:1–10 — Dead in Sin, Alive by Grace (CORE PASSAGE)

Doctrine	Supporting Passages	Risk	Translation Risk	Review Routing
Salvation by Grace through Faith	2:1–10 (thesis passage of the doctrine and of the curriculum)	Critical	The most-quoted verse pair of the letter (2:8–9) must render identically to any future citation. “Mrtvý” (spiritual death) has no automatic secular referent and needs narrative unpacking; “provinění” (trespasses) must be distinguished from baseline “hřích” to preserve Paul’s act/state distinction; “skutky” (works) in contrast to grace is the letter’s central soteriological claim and triggers the Romans baseline’s grace-merit escalation rule; “dílo” (workmanship, 2:10) needs the “God’s handiwork” sense actively taught.	Human theologian
Walking in Newness of Life (anticipatory)	2:2, 2:10 (peripateō)	High	First occurrences of the “walk” motif threaded through the whole letter; establishes precedent for consistent rendering.	Human theologian

2:11–13 — Formerly Far Off

Doctrine	Supporting Passages	Risk	Translation Risk	Review Routing
Unity of Jews and Gentiles in One New Humanity	2:11–13	High	Pohané carries a stronger “pagan” charge than neutral “Gentiles” (per baseline); makran/eggys (far off/near) needs Old Testament covenant background to land with force for a reader with no prior narrative framework.	Human theologian

2:14–18 — Christ Our Peace

Doctrine	Supporting Passages	Risk	Translation Risk	Review Routing
Unity of Jews and Gentiles in One New Humanity	2:14–16	High	No Czech idiom preserves the literal Jerusalem Temple-court “dividing wall” background; “jeden nový člověk” claims a genuinely new corporate identity, stronger than mere equal access — flagged for native speaker review given the Czech lands’ own complex twentieth-century Jewish history in addition to the theologian review already required.	Human theologian
(Baseline) Peace with God	2:14, 2:17	Medium	Reuses baseline “pokoj” risk (everyday sense of mere quiet).	Native speaker review

2:19–22 — Household of God, Holy Temple

Doctrine	Supporting Passages	Risk	Translation Risk	Review Routing
The Church as the Body of Christ	2:20–22	Critical	Chrám (temple) carries a strong architectural/heritage-tourism association for secular readers; the living “temple of people” sense must be actively taught against this default. Základ/úhelný kámen (foundation/cornerstone) is a recognizable metaphor but the underlying building-metaphor concept still needs unpacking.	Human theologian
Unity of Jews and Gentiles in One New Humanity	2:19	High	Spoluobčané / Boží rodina (fellow citizens/household) is lexically low-risk but the theological content (equal, not second-class, standing) must be stated explicitly, not assumed.	Human theologian

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Chapter 3

3:1–6 — The Mystery Made Known

Doctrine	Supporting Passages	Risk	Translation Risk	Review Routing
The Mystery of Christ Revealed	3:2–6	Critical	Core exposition of mystērion; oikonomia must NOT render as “hospodářství” (national economy) — a near-comic mistranslation risk; requires “commission/office” register instead.	Human theologian
Unity of Jews and Gentiles in One New Humanity	3:6 (synklēronomos, fellow heirs)	High	Spoludědic compounds the dědictví probate-law collision risk and may wrongly suggest a divided inheritance rather than a shared, undivided one.	Human theologian

3:7–13 — Paul’s Stewardship of the Mystery

Doctrine	Supporting Passages	Risk	Translation Risk	Review Routing
The Mystery of Christ Revealed	3:8–9	Critical	Continued tajemství exposure; 3:10’s “mocnosti a vládcové v nebesích” (rulers and authorities in the heavenly places) ties this doctrine directly to Spiritual Warfare below and needs the recurring technical sense of nebeské oblasti established, not the default afterlife-destination reading of “nebe.”	Human theologian

3:14–21 — Prayer for Strength, Love, and the Fullness of God

Doctrine	Supporting Passages	Risk	Translation Risk	Review Routing
The Church as the Body of Christ	3:19 (plērōma)	Critical	Reinforces the plnost concept from 1:23; abstract, low-frequency term with almost no pre-existing recognition.	Human theologian
(Baseline) Father / Adoption	3:14–15 (patria)	Medium	Greek’s πατήρ/πατριά wordplay is untranslatable in Czech; the lost connection to baseline “Otec” should be flagged with an explicit translator’s note rather than silently dropped.	Native speaker review

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Chapter 4

4:1–6 — One Body, One Spirit, One Hope

Doctrine	Supporting Passages	Risk	Translation Risk	Review Routing
Unity of Jews and Gentiles in One New Humanity	4:3–6	High	Jednota (unity) may default to a generic civic/team-unity sense rather than the specifically Spirit-given unity Paul claims.	Human theologian
The Church as the Body of Christ	4:4	Critical	Reinforces tělo/plnost teaching established in chapters 1–3; consistency of gloss required.	Human theologian
(Baseline) Divine Calling	4:1, 4:4	High	Reuses baseline “povolání” risk.	Human theologian

4:7–13 — Gifts of the Ascended Christ

Doctrine	Supporting Passages	Risk	Translation Risk	Review Routing
Gifts for Building Up the Church	4:7–13	Medium	Učitel is the ordinary Czech word for a school teacher and is the reader’s near-certain default association, requiring active distinction from the spiritual-teaching office; pastýř is recognized mainly through Christmas nativity-scene imagery.	Native speaker review
The Mystery of Christ Revealed	4:8–9 (descent/ascent)	Critical	Ties the ascension to the mystery/fullness theme already established; consistency required with 1:20–23 treatment.	Human theologian

4:14–16 — Growing to Maturity

Doctrine	Supporting Passages	Risk	Translation Risk	Review Routing
The Church as the Body of Christ	4:15–16	Critical	Kephalē (head) here must convey an organic, life-giving sense rather than only a hierarchical command sense — a doctrinal risk, not merely a lexical one. Teleios anēr (“mature manhood”) must render as maturity/completeness, not literal “dokonalý” (perfect), which risks an unreachable-standard misreading.	Human theologian
Gifts for Building Up the Church	4:12	Medium	Reuse Romans baseline’s low-risk “vzájemné budování” register for consistency with katartismos/oikodomē.	Native speaker review

4:17–24 — Put Off the Old Self, Put On the New

Doctrine	Supporting Passages	Risk	Translation Risk	Review Routing
Walking in Newness of Life	4:17–24	High	Starý člověk / nový člověk risks registering as a vague self-improvement idiom (“turning over a new leaf”) rather than Paul’s claim of a decisive, Christ-wrought identity change, echoing the already-High-rated Romans baseline doctrine “christian_identity_in_christ.”	Human theologian

4:25–32 — Practical Instructions; Do Not Grieve the Spirit

Doctrine	Supporting Passages	Risk	Translation Risk	Review Routing
Walking in Newness of Life	4:30–32	High	Zarmoutit (grieve, of the Spirit) presupposes prior teaching on the Holy Spirit’s full personhood (a baseline Critical doctrine); odpustit should reinforce the etymological link to milost/χάρις.	Human theologian

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Chapter 5

5:1–14 — Walk in Love and Light; Vice List

Doctrine	Supporting Passages	Risk	Translation Risk	Review Routing
Walking in Newness of Life	5:1–14	High	Smilstvo, nečistota, chamtivost (sexual immorality, impurity, greed) need relational, gospel-shaped framing (5:1–2) to avoid landing as bare moralism; modloslužebník (idolater, 5:5) has no literal-idolatry framework for a Czech reader to extend metaphorically from and must be taught from scratch; děti světla (children of light, 5:8) needs explicit connection to the old-self/new-self teaching already established.	Human theologian

5:15–20 — Walk Wisely; Be Filled with the Spirit

Doctrine	Supporting Passages	Risk	Translation Risk	Review Routing
Walking in Newness of Life	5:18	High	Naplněni Duchem: everyday “naplněný” (filled with food/emotion/a schedule) risks trivializing the command, or alternately inviting unevaluated charismatic-experience assumptions the reader has no framework to assess; requires concrete behavioral anchoring in 5:19–21.	Human theologian

5:21–33 — Household Code: Christ, the Church, and Marriage

Doctrine	Supporting Passages	Risk	Translation Risk	Review Routing
Household Codes and Christ-Centered Relationships	5:21–33	High	Podřídit se risks being read as endorsing domination if isolated from the mutual (5:21) and self-giving (5:25) framing, or dismissed outright as culturally regressive by an egalitarian-minded secular readership; láska in this marital context carries the same romantic-love collision documented at 2:4 but now applied to a specific interpersonal relationship, raising the pastoral stakes.	Human theologian
The Church as the Body of Christ	5:23, 5:30	Critical	Reinforces hlava/tělo teaching in a new relational (marital) application; consistency with 1:22–23 and 4:15–16 required.	Human theologian

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Chapter 6

6:1–4 — Children and Parents

Doctrine	Supporting Passages	Risk	Translation Risk	Review Routing
Household Codes and Christ-Centered Relationships	6:1–4	High	Výchova a napomínání (discipline and instruction) must not read as harsh punitive discipline; describes loving, Christ-centered formation. Ctít (honor) is stable, minimal collision.	Human theologian

6:5–9 — Slaves and Masters

Doctrine	Supporting Passages	Risk	Translation Risk	Review Routing
Household Codes and Christ-Centered Relationships	6:5–9	High	Otrok must be rendered literally rather than softened to “servant,” but requires a translator’s note on historical context so readers do not conclude the text endorses slavery as an institution. Stranění osobám (favoritism, 6:9) reinforces the “no distinction” universality principle already High-rated in the Romans baseline.	Human theologian

6:10–20 — The Whole Armor of God

Doctrine	Supporting Passages	Risk	Translation Risk	Review Routing
Spiritual Warfare and the Armor of God	6:10–20	High	Armor vocabulary itself is low-risk (Czech has rich martial-historical vocabulary); the real risk is conceptual — a broadly secular, materialist-leaning readership may read vládci tohoto světa and ďábel as ancient metaphor for institutional injustice, or through the folkloric St. Nicholas Day čert figure, rather than accepting real, personal, organized spiritual evil. Individual armor-piece nouns (6:14–17) inherit the risk profile of the underlying theological nouns (spravedlnost, víra, spasení — all High/Critical baseline terms).	Human theologian

6:21–24 — Closing Greetings

No new doctrinal content. Terms (pokoj, milost, víra, láska) reuse baseline renderings exactly. Reviewed — no escalation required.

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Full Doctrine Matrix (Consolidated, Whole-Book)

Doctrine	Supporting Passages (Ephesians)	Risk	Translation Risk (Summary)	Review Routing
Salvation by Grace through Faith	1:7; 2:1–10; 5:23	Critical	”Spasení” carries the same archaic-register risk documented in the Romans baseline; 2:8–9 is the letter’s thesis verse and must be rendered with absolute cross-document consistency; new compound terms (vykoupení, spasitel) have no natural one-word Czech equivalent.	Human theologian
Election and Predestination in Christ	1:4–5; 1:9; 1:11; 1:13–14; 1:18; 3:6	High	No competing secular meaning for předurčení, but readers have no prior category to activate at all; dědictví and záruka risk importing probate-law and consumer-warranty assumptions respectively.	Human theologian
The Church as the Body of Christ	1:22–23; 2:19–22; 3:6, 19; 4:4–16; 5:23, 30	Critical	Tělo must do double duty for σῶμα (positive, ecclesial) and σάρξ (negative, “flesh”) with no separate Czech lexeme to distinguish them; plnost and chrám carry near-zero pre-existing recognition or a misleading architectural/tourism default.	Human theologian
Unity of Jews and Gentiles in One New Humanity	2:11–22; 3:6; 4:3–6	High	Claims a genuinely new corporate identity, stronger than the Romans baseline’s parallel (Medium-rated) doctrine; no Czech idiom preserves the literal Temple “dividing wall”; carries additional pastoral weight given Czech lands’ twentieth-century Jewish history.	Human theologian
The Mystery of Christ Revealed	1:9–10; 3:2–9; 5:32; 6:19	Critical	Tajemství evokes a withheld, intriguing secret in ordinary Czech — nearly the inverse of Paul’s sense of a plan now disclosed; the single highest-collision term identified in this Language Package to date.	Human theologian
Spiritual Warfare and the Armor of God	6:10–20	High	Vocabulary is low-risk; the conceptual risk is a secular readership reading real spiritual evil as metaphor, or trivializing it through the folkloric čert figure.	Human theologian
Household Codes and Christ-Centered Relationships	5:21–33; 6:1–9	High	Podřídit se risks a domination or regressive-culture misreading absent explicit mutual/self-giving framing; otrok requires historical contextualization to avoid implying endorsement of slavery.	Human theologian
Gifts for Building Up the Church	4:7–13	Medium	Učitel and pastýř carry strong secular/folk-cultural defaults (school teacher; nativity-scene shepherd) requiring active distinction from the spiritual office.	Native speaker review
Walking in Newness of Life	2:2, 10; 4:17–24, 30–32; 5:1–20	High	Starý/nový člověk risks reading as generic self-improvement idiom; naplněni Duchem risks trivialization or unevaluated charismatic-experience assumptions.	Human theologian

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Risk Summary

Consistent with assets/doctrine_risk_registry.json:

Risk Tier	Count	Review Routing
Critical	3	Human theologian
High	5	Human theologian
Medium	1	Native speaker review
Low	0	—
Total requiring theologian review	8
Total requiring native speaker review	1
Total automated only	0

Full-book coverage confirmation: All six chapters of Ephesians have been reviewed section by section. Sections 1:1–2 and 6:21–24 introduced no new doctrinal content beyond terms already fixed in the Romans baseline and are recorded above as explicitly reviewed rather than silently omitted. Every other section of the letter maps to at least one of the nine governing doctrines.

See analysis/08_core_glossary.md for the full term-level glossary underlying this doctrine matrix. See analysis/04_comparative_theology.md for cross-tradition interpretation and sensitive-terminology guidance for each doctrine.

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Critical Risk Doctrines

Salvation by Grace through Faith

Czech name: Spasení z milosti skrze víru
Key terms: grace, faith, salvation, dead_in_sin, trespasses, made_alive_with_christ, raised_with_christ, seated_with_christ, gift_of_salvation, works, workmanship, created_new, redemption, forgiveness, savior, boasting, good_works_prepared
Review routing: Human theologian

CRITICAL: Ephesians 2:8-9 is the most quoted verse of the letter and must render identically to any future citation of it (‘Milostí jste spaseni skrze víru’). ‘Spasení’ carries the same archaic-register risk documented in the Romans baseline, compounded here by two genuinely new compound terms — ‘spolu s Kristem obživil’ (made alive with Christ) and ‘spasitel’ (Savior) — neither of which has a natural one-word Czech equivalent and both of which risk registering as empty or merely literary rather than as a concrete narrative of rescue from death to life.

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The Church as the Body of Christ

Czech name: Církev jako tělo Kristovo
Key terms: church, body_of_christ, head, fullness, foundation_cornerstone, temple, mature_manhood, equipping_building_up
Review routing: Human theologian

CRITICAL: standard Czech has no separate everyday word distinguishing σῶμα (‘body,’ used positively of the church) from σάρξ (‘flesh,’ used negatively of fallen human nature elsewhere in the letter) — both default to ‘tělo.’ Every occurrence must be context-glossed so readers do not conclude the physical body itself is condemned, or conversely fail to grasp the organic, living unity ‘tělo Kristovo’ claims for the church rather than a merely organizational metaphor.

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The Mystery of Christ Revealed

Czech name: Tajemství Kristovo zjevené
Key terms: mystery, stewardship_commission, heavenly_places, rulers_and_authorities, family_lineage, rooted_grounded_fullness_of_god, boldness_confidence
Review routing: Human theologian

CRITICAL: ordinary Czech ‘tajemství’ means an intriguing withheld secret (a detective novel’s mystery, a magician’s trick) — nearly the inverse of Paul’s sense of a plan God has now fully disclosed. This is the single highest-collision term identified anywhere in this Language Package’s Ephesians analysis, exceeding even the Romans baseline’s highest-risk terms, and requires human theologian review at every occurrence (1:9; 3:3-9; 5:32; 6:19).

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High Risk Doctrines

Election and Predestination in Christ

Czech name: Vyvolení a předurčení v Kristu
Key terms: election, predestined, purpose_of_god, will_of_god, sealed_with_spirit, guarantee_deposit, inheritance, fellow_heirs
Review routing: Human theologian

‘Předurčení’ carries no competing secular meaning, but that is itself the risk this Language Package documents: readers have no prior conceptual category for a personal, gracious, pre-temporal divine choice to activate, unlike ‘vyvolení,’ which competes against a live but wrong secular sense (job selection, sports tryout, per the Romans baseline). ‘Záruka’ (guarantee/pledge for the Spirit as down payment) additionally risks trivializing the doctrine into a consumer product warranty, and ‘dědictví’ risks importing Czech probate-law assumptions about contested estates.

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Unity of Jews and Gentiles in One New Humanity

Czech name: Jednota Židů a pohanů v jednom novém člověku
Key terms: gentiles, dividing_wall, enmity, one_new_humanity, far_off_near, fellow_citizens_household, unity, access
Review routing: Human theologian

Ephesians 2:14-16 claims something stronger than the Romans baseline’s parallel doctrine (rated Medium there): not merely equal access for Jew and Gentile but a genuinely new corporate identity, ‘jeden nový člověk.’ No Czech idiom preserves the Jerusalem Temple’s literal ‘dividing wall’ background, and this doctrine’s rendering carries additional pastoral weight given the Czech lands’ own complex twentieth-century Jewish history.

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Spiritual Warfare and the Armor of God

Czech name: Duchovní boj a Boží výstroj
Key terms: full_armor, devil, world_rulers_spiritual_forces, schemes, struggle_wrestling, armor_pieces, word_of_god_rhema, strengthened_in_the_lord, rulers_and_authorities, heavenly_places
Review routing: Human theologian

The armor vocabulary itself is not the difficulty — Czech has a rich martial-historical vocabulary to draw on. The real risk is conceptual: a broadly secular, materialist-leaning readership may readily read ‘vládci tohoto světa’ and ‘ďábel’ as ancient metaphor for institutional injustice, or through the folkloric St. Nicholas Day ‘čert’ figure, rather than accepting Paul’s claim about real, personal, organized spiritual evil — the opposite collision direction from most terms in this Language Package (folklore trivializing rather than a rival theology substituting).

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Household Codes and Christ-Centered Relationships

Czech name: Domácí řády a vztahy zaměřené na Krista
Key terms: submission, slave_bondservant, discipline_and_instruction, honor, favoritism_partiality, obey, washing_of_water, without_blemish, love_of_god, head
Review routing: Human theologian

‘Podřídit se’ risks being read by an egalitarian-minded secular Czech readership either as endorsing domination if isolated from the passage’s mutual (5:21) and self-giving (5:25) framing, or dismissed outright as culturally regressive; ‘otrok’ additionally requires a translator’s note establishing historical context so readers do not conclude the text endorses slavery as an institution rather than relativizing a first-century social structure under Christ’s shared lordship (6:9).

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Walking in Newness of Life

Czech name: Chození v novotě života
Key terms: walk_conduct, old_self_new_self, renewed_mind, grieve_the_spirit, forgive_one_another, children_of_light, filled_with_spirit, sexual_immorality_impurity_greed, idolater, imitators_of_god
Review routing: Human theologian

‘Naplněni Duchem’ risks being read through the everyday sense of ‘naplněný’ (filled with food, emotion, or a full schedule), either trivializing the command or inviting unevaluated charismatic-experience assumptions the reader has no framework to assess; ‘starý/nový člověk’ risks registering as a vague self-improvement idiom (‘turning over a new leaf’) rather than Paul’s claim of a decisive, Christ-wrought change of identity, echoing the already-High-rated ‘christian_identity_in_christ’ doctrine in the Romans baseline.

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Medium Risk Doctrines

Gifts for Building Up the Church

Czech name: Dary pro budování církve
Key terms: spiritual_gifts, evangelist, pastor_shepherd, teacher, gifts_of_christ, equipping_building_up
Review routing: Native speaker review

‘Učitel’ is the ordinary Czech word for a school teacher and is likely to be the reader’s only default association, requiring active distinction from the spiritual-teaching office; ‘pastýř’ is recognized mainly through Christmas nativity-scene imagery, a folk-cultural association parallel to the baseline’s noted risk for ‘království’ defaulting to fairy-tale associations.