Passage

Romans 6

• Doctrine

  Christian Identity in Christ

  Identity located in union with Christ, not denominational or cultural heritage identity.

  ROM.6.1-11

• 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.6.1, ROM.6.14-15

• 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.6.1, ROM.6.14-15

• Glossary Term

  Holy

  Set apart for God and morally pure; 'rein' alone loses the set-apart sense.

  ROM.6.19, ROM.6.22

• Glossary Term

  Holy Spirit

  The personal third Person of the Trinity; no competing deity-concept risk in Dutch culture.

  ROM.6.19, ROM.6.22

• Glossary Term

  Resurrection

  Bodily, historical, once-for-all event; no competing reincarnation folk-concept in Dutch culture.

  ROM.6.4-5

• Doctrine

  Resurrection of Christ

  Bodily, historical, once-for-all event; chief risk is secular naturalism reading it as metaphor.

  ROM.6.4-5

• Doctrine

  Sanctification

  The Spirit's ongoing work of making believers holy; low risk of ritual-purification confusion in Dutch culture.

  ROM.6.19, ROM.6.22

• Glossary Term

  Sanctification

  The Spirit's ongoing work of making believers holy.

  ROM.6.19, ROM.6.22

• Doctrine

  Separation unto God's Service

  Must not collapse into monastic withdrawal; biblical separation is devotion to God while remaining engaged in ordinary life.

  ROM.6.22