Doctrine Analysis

This curriculum’s doctrine registry tracks 40 doctrines drawn from Romans 1-16, each recorded in full in doctrine_risk_registry.json with its risk tier, key terms, primary passages, and review routing.

Risk distribution

• Critical (3): Salvation, Sainthood, and Prayer and Intercession — the smallest Critical count of any language in this Language Package’s cohort, reflecting that Filipino Catholic culture already affirms core Christology; risk concentrates narrowly in folk-devotional practice.
• High (12): doctrines including Messianic Promise, Incarnation, Deity of Christ, Sonship of Christ, Lordship of Christ, and Grace, where mistranslation or unclarified rendering creates meaningful theological confusion even though outright denial is not the concern.
• Medium (22): the largest tier in this registry, covering doctrines like Gospel, Apostleship, Faith, Adoption, and Church as God’s People, where existing Filipino Christian vocabulary is comparatively well understood and low-risk.
• Low (3): Thanksgiving, Mutual Edification, and Christian Fellowship, cleared for automated review.

Why this registry looks different from the rest of the cohort

Every other language in this Language Package’s cohort has its highest-risk doctrines concentrated in Critical and High tiers because a competing religious or cosmological framework offers a fluent, tempting wrong word. Filipino inverts that shape: 22 of 40 doctrines sit at Medium risk specifically because centuries of Catholic catechesis already got the core vocabulary right. The risk that remains is narrower but no less real — it is about which of several already-legitimate practices (saint intercession, sacramental participation) a reader will implicitly treat as functionally equivalent to what Romans assigns to Christ alone.

Why Prayer and Intercession is the single highest-priority doctrine

Unlike Salvation and Sainthood, which risk conceptual confusion, Prayer and Intercession risks direct functional substitution: a reader can pray through a saint for years without ever examining whether that structurally competes with Christ’s unique mediatorial role. This makes it the doctrine most likely to be affected by translation choices without anyone noticing a problem.

Review routing summary

15 of 40 doctrines (all Critical and High) route to mandatory human theologian review; 22 Medium-risk doctrines route to native speaker review; 3 Low-risk doctrines are cleared for automated review only. See doctrine_risk_registry.json’s risk_summary block for the exact counts.