Doctrine Analysis
Doctrine Analysis
This Language Package’s doctrine_risk_registry.json tracks 40 doctrines across Romans 1-16, each assigned a risk tier that drives Phase 2 review routing.
Risk tier summary
| Tier | Count | Review routing | Example doctrines |
|---|---|---|---|
| Critical | 8 | Human theologian, every occurrence | Salvation, Incarnation, Grace, Deity of Christ, Sonship of Christ, Resurrection of Christ, Lordship of Christ, Messianic Promise |
| High | 20 | Human theologian | Gospel, Divine Calling, Faith, Sanctification, Providence, Universal Scope of the Gospel, Unity of Jews and Gentiles |
| Medium | 9 | Native speaker review | Apostleship, Prayer and Intercession, Spiritual Gifts, Mission to the Nations, Evangelism, Church as God’s People, Kingdom Mission |
| Low | 3 | Automated review only | Thanksgiving, Mutual Edification, Christian Fellowship |
Why Critical doctrines cluster where they do
Dogri’s eight Critical-risk doctrines cluster around two specific, nameable local institutions rather than a diffuse cultural background. Incarnation, Sonship, and Deity of Christ are Critical because Raghunath Mandir’s royally patronized Rama-avatar devotion gives avatar theology unusual local prestige. Grace and Salvation are Critical because the Vaishno Devi pilgrimage’s mannat vow economy offers a concrete, currently active transactional model that a fluent-sounding Dogri rendering could accidentally reproduce. This is not a coincidence: these are precisely the doctrines where the “obvious” translation risks importing the exact framework Romans is written against.
Review routing rationale
Critical and High risk doctrines (28 of 40) require mandatory human theologian review because an automated or native-speaker-only check could confirm the Dogri is fluent without catching that it imports avatar theology or vow-exchange logic — or, in the opposite failure mode, that it has silently drifted into a Hindi Christian term rather than Dogri’s own vocabulary. Native speaker review is sufficient for Medium-risk doctrines, where the concern is cultural fit (e.g. colonial-mission associations, honor-culture sensitivity) rather than doctrinal contradiction.
Critical Risk Doctrines
Deity of Christ
Dogri name: मसीह दा ईश्वरत्व
Key terms: son of God, declared son, God over all
Review routing: Human theologian
CRITICAL: full, co-equal divine nature; must not be softened into ‘a great avatar’ or ‘a favored royal-patronized deity.‘
Grace
Dogri name: बिना कमाई दित्ती दया
Key terms: grace, unmerited, gift, given freely
Review routing: Human theologian
Unmerited favor must be distinguished from the mannat (vow) economy surrounding the Vaishno Devi pilgrimage, in which a wish is granted in exchange for a vow or offering — an unusually concrete, currently active transactional model in this region.
Incarnation
Dogri name: मानखे दा रूप लैना
Key terms: flesh, seed of David, son born, came in flesh
Review routing: Human theologian
CRITICAL: the eternal Son permanently taking on human nature, once. NEVER अवतार, given the specific local salience of Rama-avatar devotion at the Dogra-royal-patronized Raghunath Mandir, one of North India’s major Rama temple complexes.
Lordship of Christ
Dogri name: मसीह दा प्रभुपन
Key terms: lord, lord jesus, jesus is lord
Review routing: Human theologian
CRITICAL: exclusive, supreme Lordship. Must not use महाराजा, the historic Dogra dynastic royal title, which would frame Christ’s rule as political-historical rather than divine.
Messianic Promise
Dogri name: मसीह दा वादा
Key terms: messiah, christ, anointed, promised
Review routing: Human theologian
CRITICAL: Messiah is a specific Jewish Old Testament category fulfilled exclusively in Jesus, not one of several avatar-figures or locally venerated deities.
Resurrection of Christ
Dogri name: मसीह दा मुर्दघरा चा जिंदा होना
Key terms: raised, resurrection, from the dead, raised from death
Review routing: Human theologian
CRITICAL: bodily, once-for-all resurrection, not पुनर्जन्म (reincarnation). Always distinguish in translator notes.
Salvation
Dogri name: उद्धार
Key terms: salvation, saved, save, deliverance
Review routing: Human theologian
CRITICAL: never मुक्ति (liberation from rebirth) and never framed as a wish granted through a shrine vow. Salvation is reconciliation with a personal God through Christ’s finished work.
Sonship of Christ
Dogri name: मसीह दा पुत्तरपन
Key terms: son of God, his son, God’s son
Review routing: Human theologian
CRITICAL: eternal, unique Sonship, not metaphorical or adoptive sonship, and not one avatar among Vishnu’s many recognized avatars.
High Risk Doctrines
Adoption into God’s Family
Dogri name: परमेश्वर दे परिवार च गोद लैना
Key terms: adoption, spirit of adoption, sons, children of God, abba
Review routing: Human theologian
Full son-status with complete inheritance rights; guard against a reduced-status reading given Dogra Rajput culture’s strong lineage-based honor (izzat) and legitimate-birthright expectations.
Assurance of Salvation
Dogri name: उद्धार दा निश्चा
Key terms: nothing can separate, who shall separate, no condemnation, more than conquerors
Review routing: Human theologian
Assurance based on God’s unchanging character; not on maintaining an ongoing cycle of vows and offerings to secure divine favor.
Christian Identity in Christ
Dogri name: मसीह च मसीही पछान
Key terms: in Christ, in Christ Jesus, united with Christ, dead to sin alive to God
Review routing: Human theologian
Identity located in union with Christ, not caste, Dogra Rajput lineage, or honor-rank (izzat) status.
Davidic Covenant
Dogri name: दाऊद दा नियम
Key terms: seed of David, David, covenant
Review routing: Human theologian
Requires explicit Old Testament background; resonates naturally with Dogra Rajput culture’s strong lineage-consciousness, but that resonance must not be allowed to reduce the covenant to a mere genealogical honor claim.
Divine Calling
Dogri name: परमेश्वर दी सद्द
Key terms: called, calling
Review routing: Human theologian
God’s sovereign call must be distinguished from human-initiated pilgrimage vows or from किस्मत-style destiny language.
Effectual Calling
Dogri name: फल दिंदी सद्द
Key terms: called, calling, election, chosen
Review routing: Human theologian
God’s sovereign call that ensures the salvation of the called; not किस्मत (impersonal fate) and not the outcome of a pilgrimage vow.
Faith
Dogri name: भरोसा
Key terms: faith, believe, belief, trust
Review routing: Human theologian
Personal trust in Christ; the object of faith must always be specified, distinct from generalized religious devotion (shraddha) directed at any of the region’s actively worshipped deities.
Fulfillment of Prophecy
Dogri name: भविष्यवाणी दा पूरा होना
Key terms: prophecy, promised, foretold, scriptures say
Review routing: Human theologian
Linear historical fulfillment (Old Testament to New Testament); not a cyclical cosmic pattern and not analogous to a vow-and-boon fulfillment cycle.
Gospel
Dogri name: खरी खबर
Key terms: gospel, good news
Review routing: Human theologian
Must be distinguished from general positive news and from the specific ‘good news’ of a granted wish at a shrine; the gospel is the unique proclamation of salvation through Christ crucified and risen.
Humanity of Christ
Dogri name: मसीह दी मनुक्खता
Key terms: born of the seed of David, flesh, human
Review routing: Human theologian
Real, physical human nature, not a temporary appearance-form as in an avatar-descent narrative.
Inspiration of Scripture
Dogri name: पवित्तर शास्तर दी प्रेरणा
Key terms: scriptures, holy scriptures, prophets
Review routing: Human theologian
Distinguish God-breathed Scripture from the Sanskrit textual tradition historically commissioned and patronized by the Dogra royal court, which reflects royal literary patronage rather than a claim of unique divine authorship.
Obedience of Faith
Dogri name: भरोसे कन्नै ताल्लुक रखदी मन्नता
Key terms: obedience of faith, obedience, faith-produced obedience
Review routing: Human theologian
Obedience flowing from faith, not the observance of inherited Dogra Rajput social and ritual custom (rīt-rivāj) or honor obligation (izzat).
Power of God for Salvation
Dogri name: उद्धार आस्तै परमेश्वर दी सामर्थ
Key terms: power of God, God’s power
Review routing: Human theologian
सामर्थ required; never शक्ति, given the strong local Shakta association of divine feminine power with Vaishno Devi and the Bahu Fort Kali shrine.
Providence
Dogri name: परमेश्वर दा प्रबन्ध
Key terms: all things work together, God works, foreknew, predestined, called, justified, glorified
Review routing: Human theologian
God’s personal, purposive care; never किस्मत (fate). Romans 8:28 is specifically vulnerable to being reheard as fatalistic destiny rather than relational promise.
Sainthood (Called to be Holy)
Dogri name: पवित्तर लोकां दी सद्द
Key terms: saints, holy ones, called to be holy
Review routing: Human theologian
All believers are saints; not an ascetic elite class. साधु implies special renunciant status; use पवित्तर लोक.
Sanctification
Dogri name: पवित्तरता
Key terms: sanctification, holiness, set apart, holy living
Review routing: Human theologian
Spirit’s work of making believers holy; not ritual purification undertaken before temple worship or pilgrimage.
Separation unto God’s Service
Dogri name: परमेश्वर दी सेवा आस्तै अलग कीता जाना
Key terms: set apart, separated, holy
Review routing: Human theologian
Must not be confused with the ritual separations undertaken before pilgrimage (e.g. preparatory purity rites before Vaishno Devi darshan). Biblical separation is ongoing, whole-life devotion lived out in the world, not an occasional ritual state.
Unity of Jews and Gentiles
Dogri name: यहूदियां ते गैर-यहूदियां दी एकता
Key terms: Jew and Gentile, no distinction, one body, olive tree
Review routing: Human theologian
Directly challenges caste and lineage-based spiritual hierarchy; must be translated with theological clarity, not softened to accommodate honor-culture sensitivities.
Universal Human Accountability
Dogri name: सारे मनुक्खां दी जवाबदेही
Key terms: all have sinned, no one is righteous, no distinction, all are accountable
Review routing: Human theologian
All humanity equally guilty before God undermines Dogra Rajput lineage-based honor hierarchy; retain universal language without softening.
Universal Scope of the Gospel
Dogri name: खरी खबर दा सारे आस्तै होना
Key terms: everyone who believes, all who call, no distinction, Jew and Gentile
Review routing: Human theologian
No caste, lineage, or honor-rank barrier to the gospel; retain unqualified universality even against Dogra Rajput culture’s strong lineage-honor (izzat) stratification.
Medium Risk Doctrines
Apostleship
Dogri name: भेजेआ जाने दा ओहदा
Key terms: apostle
Review routing: Native speaker review
Risk of reducing apostleship to a generic religious-teacher role rather than a unique, Christ-commissioned sent office.
Christ-Centered Ministry
Dogri name: मसीह-केंद्रित सेवा
Key terms: what Christ has accomplished through me, in Christ Jesus, minister of Christ
Review routing: Native speaker review
Ministry done in Christ’s name, by his power, for his glory; not humanitarian or educational service divorced from the gospel.
Church as God’s People
Dogri name: परमेश्वर दी प्रजा दे रूप च कलीसिया
Key terms: body of Christ, one body, church, saints, assembly
Review routing: Native speaker review
New covenant community; not a ritual institution or an honor-rank-segregated assembly.
Evangelism
Dogri name: प्रचार करना
Key terms: preach, proclaim, evangelize, send, how will they hear
Review routing: Native speaker review
Use language of proclamation and witness rather than confrontation, given the strong existing devotional identity of the Duggar region’s temple and pilgrimage culture.
Kingdom Mission
Dogri name: राज्य दा कम्म
Key terms: kingdom of God, righteousness peace and joy, advance the kingdom
Review routing: Native speaker review
God’s reign advancing through the gospel, not a political or historic-dynastic kingdom given the region’s own princely-state past.
Mission to the Nations
Dogri name: राष्ट्रां आस्तै प्रचार दा कम्म
Key terms: nations, gentiles, all peoples, to the ends of the earth
Review routing: Native speaker review
Cultural sensitivity: mission carries colonial-era school and administration associations in the Jammu region; frame as the church’s own ongoing calling.
Peace with God
Dogri name: परमेश्वर कन्नै शान्ति
Key terms: peace with God, peace, peace through justification
Review routing: Native speaker review
Relational, judicial peace through justification, not the resolution of a personal worry through a granted vow.
Prayer and Intercession
Dogri name: प्रार्थना ते बिचाल्ले होइयै बिनती
Key terms: prayer, intercession, pray, groan, spirit intercedes
Review routing: Native speaker review
Direct access to God in Christ’s name; distinguish from mediated petitionary practice associated with pilgrimage and shrine vows.
Spiritual Gifts
Dogri name: आत्मिक दान
Key terms: spiritual gift, gift, grace gift, measure of faith
Review routing: Native speaker review
Spirit-given enablements; not वरदान (a boon granted in exchange for devotion or a vow).
Low Risk Doctrines
Christian Fellowship
Dogri name: मसीही संगत
Key terms: fellowship, share, participate, community
Review routing: Automated review
Shared participation in Christ; not merely social or clan association.
Mutual Edification
Dogri name: आपसी उन्नति
Key terms: build up, edify, encourage one another, strengthen
Review routing: Automated review
Building one another up in faith; no significant doctrinal risk.
Thanksgiving
Dogri name: धन्नवाद
Key terms: thanksgiving, give thanks, grateful, thank God
Review routing: Automated review
Standard term. Minor risk of over-ritualization.
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