Glossary Term
Risk: Critical- Approved rendering
- salvation
- Transliteration
- salvation
- Rejected alternatives
- being saved (contested denominational shorthand — see notes), rescue (too generic a gloss on its own)
Salvation
CRITICAL DENOMINATIONAL CONTEST: English-speaking Christian traditions are themselves divided on ‘being saved’ — revivalist/altar-call traditions often treat it as a single, datable past-tense event (‘I got saved on such-and-such date’), while Catholic, Orthodox, and many mainline Protestant traditions treat salvation as an ongoing, lifelong reality worked out over time. This curriculum should state which sense a given Romans passage intends (e.g. 1:16 and 10:9-10 lean toward a decisive event; 13:11 points forward). Also guard against the fully secularized generic sense of ‘salvation’ as any rescue from a bad situation (‘a salvage/salvation operation’), which strips out the divine agent entirely.