Passage

Romans 5

• Doctrine

  Faith

  Personal trust in Christ, not generic pluralistic religiosity.

  ROM.5.1-2

• Glossary Term

  Faith

  The Netherlands is one of the most secularized countries in Western Europe; 'geloof' increasingly reads as a generic, pluralistic term for any religion rather than assumed Christian content.

  ROM.5.1-2

• Doctrine

  Grace

  Sovereign, unmerited grace was the exact doctrine at stake in the Synod of Dordrecht's condemnation of Arminian teaching; must always reinforce 'apart from human cooperation'.

  ROM.5.2, ROM.5.15-17, ROM.5.20-21

• Glossary Term

  Grace

  Dutch Reformed dogmatics has an unusually developed doctrine of sovereign grace ('soevereine genade'), formalized against the Remonstrants at the Synod of Dordrecht (1618-19).

  ROM.5.2, ROM.5.15-17, ROM.5.20-21

• Doctrine

  Humanity of Christ

  Real physical human nature; no competing illusionist worldview in Dutch culture.

  ROM.5.15

• Glossary Term

  Peace

  In Romans 5:1, relational peace with God through justification, not merely psychological calm.

  ROM.5.1

• Doctrine

  Peace with God

  Relational, covenantal peace through justification, not psychological calm.

  ROM.5.1