Doctrine Analysis
Doctrine Analysis — Luke 1–24 (English → French)
This document executes PRD Phase 1 Step 4 (doctrine identification and risk assignment) and Step 5 (chapter-by-chapter doctrine mapping) for the full Gospel of Luke. It is fully consistent with assets/doctrine_risk_registry.json: the same 35 doctrines, the same risk tiers, and the same review routing are used throughout. This document adds the missing dimension required by the PRD — a chapter-by-chapter matrix showing where each doctrine is textually anchored across the entire book, not only at the core passage (Luke 4:16-21).
Risk tier definitions (identical to the baseline and the Luke registry):
- Critical — Mistranslation alters or destroys essential doctrine. Human theologian review required for every occurrence.
- High — Mistranslation creates significant theological confusion or denominational-conflation risk. Human theologian review required.
- Medium — Mistranslation reduces clarity but preserves essential meaning. Native speaker review recommended.
- Low — Mistranslation causes minor misunderstanding or imprecision. Automated review sufficient.
Chapter-by-Chapter Doctrine Matrix
Luke 1 — Infancy Announcements (Gabriel, Elizabeth, Mary, Zechariah’s Prophecy)
| Doctrine | Risk | Supporting Passages (Luke) | Translation Risk Notes | Review Routing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Divine Calling | Medium | 1:13-17,76 | John’s calling as forerunner; avoid “vocation” (clergy-narrowing). | Native speaker review |
| Inspiration of Scripture | Medium | 1:1-4,70 | Luke’s prologue itself asserts careful, ordered, authoritative witness — set the tone for the whole Gospel’s historical-theological claim. | Native speaker review |
| Grace | High | 1:28,30 | ”Favorisée par la grâce (de Dieu),” NOT the liturgical “pleine de grâce” — see 08 glossary rationale on Marian-dogma overreach. | Human theologian |
| Incarnation | Medium | 1:26-35 | ”Overshadow” (Shekinah-cloud allusion) needs a teaching note; French readers will not recover the Exodus background unaided. | Native speaker review |
| Davidic Covenant | Medium | 1:27,32-33,69 | ”Descendance de David,” not archaic “semence.” | Native speaker review |
| Deity of Christ | Critical | 1:35 | ”Le Saint-Esprit viendra sur toi… le Fils de Dieu” — must not soften to an inspired-man reading. | Human theologian |
| Sonship of Christ | Critical | 1:32,35 | Eternal Sonship, not adoptive; distinguish from “adoption filiale” used for believers. | Human theologian |
| Holy Spirit’s Work in Salvation History | Critical | 1:15,35,41,67 | Same Spirit filling John, Elizabeth, Zechariah, and (uniquely) overshadowing Mary — establish continuity with OT prophetic Spirit for later linkage to 4:18 and 24:49. | Human theologian |
| Salvation | Medium | 1:69,71,77 | Benedictus frames salvation as God’s covenant-faithful act, not abstract rescue. | Native speaker review |
| New Covenant and Israel | High | 1:72 | God’s “holy covenant” with the fathers — continuity, not replacement, framing required from the first chapter onward. | Human theologian |
| Messianic Promise | High | 1:31-33 | Angelic announcement of Davidic throne — foundational messianic claim; do not flatten to generic royal-birth language. | Human theologian |
Luke 2 — Birth of Jesus; Shepherds; Simeon and Anna; Boy Jesus in the Temple
| Doctrine | Risk | Supporting Passages | Translation Risk Notes | Review Routing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Incarnation | Medium | 2:1-20 | Historical, bodily birth in a specific time/place; anchor against “incarner” (to play a role). | Native speaker review |
| Messianic Promise | High | 2:11,26 | ”Le Christ, le Seigneur” — titles converge; must retain full doctrinal weight of both. | Human theologian |
| Savior for All Nations | Critical | 2:10-11,32 | ”Lumière pour éclairer les nations” (2:32) — “nations,” never “païens,” in this inclusion-focused verse. | Human theologian |
| Mission to the Nations | High | 2:32 | Simeon’s oracle is the Gospel’s first missional universalism marker. | Human theologian |
| Lordship of Christ | High | 2:11 | ”Le Christ, le Seigneur” — birth announcement is a Lordship confession, not a mere honorific. | Human theologian |
| Humanity of Christ | Low | 2:40,52 | Real, ordinary human growth; no doctrinal risk in French culture. | Automated review |
| Holy Spirit’s Work in Salvation History | Critical | 2:25-27 | Simeon “moved by the Spirit” — continues the OT-to-NT Spirit-continuity established in ch. 1. | Human theologian |
Luke 3 — John the Baptist’s Ministry; Genealogy; Baptism of Jesus
| Doctrine | Risk | Supporting Passages | Translation Risk Notes | Review Routing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Repentance and Forgiveness of Sins | High | 3:3,8 | ”Repentance,” never “pénitence” (imports Catholic sacramental system). | Human theologian |
| Davidic Covenant | Medium | 3:31 | Genealogy traced through David; reinforce continuity with 1:32-33. | Native speaker review |
| Holy Spirit’s Work in Salvation History | Critical | 3:16,22 | Spirit descends “like a dove” at baptism — visible confirmation of the same Spirit named throughout ch.1-2. | Human theologian |
| Sonship of Christ | Critical | 3:22 | The Father’s voice: “Tu es mon Fils bien-aimé” — maximal precision required; first direct divine confirmation of Sonship in the narrative. | Human theologian |
Luke 4 — Temptation; Nazareth Manifesto (CORE PASSAGE); Capernaum Ministry
| Doctrine | Risk | Supporting Passages | Translation Risk Notes | Review Routing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sonship of Christ | Critical | 4:3,9,41 | Satan’s temptations invoke “Fils de Dieu” — the title is contested rhetorically but must remain doctrinally stable in translation. | Human theologian |
| Holy Spirit’s Work in Salvation History | Critical | 4:1,14,18 | ”L’Esprit du Seigneur est sur moi” (Isaiah 61 citation) — the pivotal continuity text linking OT prophetic Spirit to Jesus’ own ministry; anchor of the whole doctrine across the Gospel. | Human theologian |
| Messianic Promise | High | 4:18-19 | ”Il m’a oint” (verb only) — never the noun “onction” (collides with the Catholic sacrament of Anointing of the Sick). This is the theological anchor of the entire curriculum. | Human theologian |
| Good News to the Poor and Marginalized | High | 4:18-19 | ”Bonne Nouvelle aux pauvres… libération aux captifs… aux opprimés… recouvrer la vue aux aveugles” — retain full social-and-spiritual scope; do not narrow to charity-only framing. | Human theologian |
| Repentance and Forgiveness of Sins | High | 4:18 | ”Ἄφεσις” here = social release, a distinct sense from “forgiveness of sins” later (24:47); flag the wordplay for teaching notes. | Human theologian |
| Kingdom of God Present and Future | High | 4:43 | ”Il me faut annoncer la Bonne Nouvelle du Royaume de Dieu” — programmatic statement following the Nazareth sermon. | Human theologian |
| Fulfillment of Prophecy | Medium | 4:21 | ”Aujourd’hui, cette parole de l’Écriture… s’est accomplie” — must use “s’est accomplie,” never “s’est réalisée.” Cross-document verbatim consistency required. | Native speaker review |
| Authority of Christ | Medium | 4:32,36 | Distinct from “puissance” (dynamis); “autorité” here risks a bureaucratic-institutional French connotation absent from Jesus’ personal, self-evident authority. | Native speaker review |
| Gospel Proclamation | Low | 4:18,43 | ”Annoncer la Bonne Nouvelle” capitalized; stable, low-risk term. | Automated review |
Luke 5 — Calling of Disciples; Healing the Leper and Paralytic; Calling Levi
| Doctrine | Risk | Supporting Passages | Translation Risk Notes | Review Routing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Divine Calling | Medium | 5:10-11,27-28 | Fishermen and a tax collector called — reinforces that calling is not reserved for a religious elite. | Native speaker review |
| Repentance and Forgiveness of Sins | High | 5:20-24,32 | Paralytic’s forgiveness precedes and grounds his healing; “il t’appartient de te lever” argument must retain forensic-forgiveness weight, not mere sympathy. | Human theologian |
| Compassion and Table Fellowship with Sinners | High | 5:27-32 | Calling of Levi and the banquet with “tax collectors and sinners” — first full statement of this doctrine (“ce n’est pas les bien portants qui ont besoin de médecin”). | Human theologian |
| Son of Man Christology | Critical | 5:24 | First occurrence of the title in Luke, tied directly to authority to forgive sins — must not read as merely “a man.” | Human theologian |
| Faith | Medium | 5:20 | ”Voyant leur foi” — faith expressed through others’ actions on behalf of the paralytic. | Native speaker review |
Luke 6 — Sabbath Controversies; Choosing the Twelve; Sermon on the Plain
| Doctrine | Risk | Supporting Passages | Translation Risk Notes | Review Routing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Authority of Christ | Medium | 6:5 (“Le Fils de l’homme est maître du sabbat”) | Ties Son of Man title to authority over the Law itself. | Native speaker review |
| Son of Man Christology | Critical | 6:5,22 | Continues the title’s authority-claim through controversy narratives. | Human theologian |
| Election / Sovereign Choice | High | 6:13 | Choosing of the Twelve — “élection” risks a competitive/democratic reading; must be framed as sovereign choice. | Human theologian |
| Apostleship | Low | 6:13-16 | Naming of the Twelve as apostles; stable term. | Automated review |
| Good News to the Poor and Marginalized | High | 6:20-21,24-26 | Beatitudes/Woes — eschatological reversal (“heureux,” not shallow “happy”) must retain paradoxical force; contrast with “malheur à…” as prophetic lament, not curse. | Human theologian |
| Kingdom of God Present and Future | High | 6:20 | ”Le Royaume de Dieu est à vous” — present-tense kingdom claim for the poor. | Human theologian |
Luke 7 — Centurion’s Faith; Raising the Widow’s Son; The Sinful Woman; John’s Question
| Doctrine | Risk | Supporting Passages | Translation Risk Notes | Review Routing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Faith | Medium | 7:9,50 | ”Ta foi t’a sauvée” (7:50) — first of four verbatim-fixed occurrences of this formula. | Native speaker review |
| Unity of Jews and Gentiles, Rich and Poor | High | 7:1-10 | A Roman centurion’s faith is commended above Israel’s own (“je n’ai pas trouvé une telle foi en Israël”) — historically sensitive juxtaposition; frame non-polemically. | Human theologian |
| Savior for All Nations | Critical | 7:9 | Centurion episode reinforces the doctrine’s Gentile-inclusion dimension established at 2:32. | Human theologian |
| Compassion and Table Fellowship with Sinners | High | 7:36-50 | The sinful woman at Simon’s table — the clearest early anchor of scandal-and-grace tension prior to ch.15. | Human theologian |
| Repentance and Forgiveness of Sins | High | 7:47-49 | ”Ses péchés lui sont pardonnés, car elle a beaucoup aimé” — must not invert cause and effect (love is the fruit of forgiveness, not its earning condition). | Human theologian |
| Messianic Promise | High | 7:19-23 | John’s question and Jesus’ Isaiah-echoing reply ties back to the 4:18 manifesto. | Human theologian |
Luke 8 — Parable of the Sower; Calming the Storm; Gerasene Demoniac; Woman with the Issue of Blood; Jairus’ Daughter
| Doctrine | Risk | Supporting Passages | Translation Risk Notes | Review Routing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kingdom of God Present and Future | High | 8:1,10 | ”Mystères du Royaume” — French “mystères” carries Catholic sacramental-liturgical connotation (Rosary); must retain hidden-but-revealed truth sense. | Human theologian |
| Inspiration of Scripture | Medium | 8:11,21 | ”La parole de Dieu” — the sower’s seed; distinguish from “Évangile” (message-content noun). | Native speaker review |
| Faith | Medium | 8:25,48 | ”Ta foi t’a sauvée” (8:48) — second verbatim-fixed occurrence. | Native speaker review |
| Authority of Christ | Medium | 8:24-25 (implied), 8:29-33 | Authority over nature and demonic forces, distinct root from “puissance.” | Native speaker review |
Luke 9 — Feeding of the 5000; Peter’s Confession; Transfiguration; Cost of Discipleship
| Doctrine | Risk | Supporting Passages | Translation Risk Notes | Review Routing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Messianic Promise | High | 9:20 | Peter’s confession: “le Christ de Dieu” — direct link to messiah baseline term. | Human theologian |
| Sonship of Christ | Critical | 9:35 | Transfiguration voice: “Celui-ci est mon Fils, celui que j’ai choisi” — direct divine confirmation, maximal precision required. | Human theologian |
| Son of Man Christology | Critical | 9:22,26,44,58 | First passion prediction and multiple self-designations; consistency across every occurrence is essential. | Human theologian |
| Cost and Joy of Discipleship | High | 9:23,57-62 | ”Prendre sa croix chaque jour” — must not flatten into the secular idiom “porter sa croix” (generic hardship-bearing). | Human theologian |
| Deity of Christ | Critical | 9:35 (implicit in “listen to him”) | Divine endorsement of Jesus’ authority alongside Moses and Elijah. | Human theologian |
Luke 10 — Mission of the Seventy; The Good Samaritan; Mary and Martha
| Doctrine | Risk | Supporting Passages | Translation Risk Notes | Review Routing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mission to the Nations | High | 10:1-20 | Sending of the Seventy prefigures the wider Gentile mission; frame as proclamation, not conquest, given France’s colonial-mission history. | Human theologian |
| Unity of Jews and Gentiles, Rich and Poor | High | 10:25-37 | The Good Samaritan depends on French readers grasping historical Jewish-Samaritan enmity, unrecoverable from the lexeme “Samaritain” alone. | Human theologian |
| Kingdom of God Present and Future | High | 10:9,11 | ”Le Royaume de Dieu s’est approché de vous” — near/present-tense kingdom announcement tied to mission. | Human theologian |
| Prayer and Dependence on God | Medium | 10:21 | Jesus’ prayer of thanksgiving to the Father; ties Spirit, Son, and Father together relationally. | Native speaker review |
Luke 11 — The Lord’s Prayer; Blasphemy Against the Spirit Warning; Woes to the Pharisees
| Doctrine | Risk | Supporting Passages | Translation Risk Notes | Review Routing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hallowing of God’s Name in Prayer | High | 11:2 | ”Que ton nom soit sanctifié” — liturgically fixed across nearly all French Christian traditions; any deviation reads as an error, not a stylistic choice. | Human theologian |
| Prayer and Dependence on God | Medium | 11:1-13 | Whole chapter section on persistent, dependent prayer; teach against ritual-observance-only reading. | Native speaker review |
| Repentance and Forgiveness of Sins | High | 11:4 | ”Pardonne-nous nos péchés” within the Lord’s Prayer itself. | Human theologian |
| Blasphemy Against the Holy Spirit | High | 11:14-23 (contextual lead-in to 12:10) | Early exorcism controversy sets up the direct warning at 12:10; handle with pastoral sensitivity. | Human theologian |
| Kingdom of God Present and Future | High | 11:20 | ”Le Royaume de Dieu est venu jusqu’à vous” via exorcism — present-kingdom evidence claim. | Human theologian |
Luke 12 — Warnings Against Hypocrisy; The Rich Fool; Readiness for the Kingdom; Blasphemy Against the Spirit
| Doctrine | Risk | Supporting Passages | Translation Risk Notes | Review Routing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blasphemy Against the Holy Spirit | High | 12:10 | The direct statement: “Celui qui blasphème contre l’Esprit Saint ne sera pas pardonné” — must be rendered with pastoral care to avoid inducing the scrupulous anxiety documented in French Catholic penitential culture, while preserving seriousness. | Human theologian |
| Cost and Joy of Discipleship | High | 12:22-34 | ”Ne vous inquiétez pas” and the rich fool parable — cost of trusting God over material security. | Human theologian |
| Son of Man Christology | Critical | 12:8,10,40 | Multiple Son of Man sayings on confession, blasphemy, and eschatological readiness. | Human theologian |
| Kingdom of God Present and Future | High | 12:31-32 | ”Cherchez plutôt son Royaume” — kingdom-priority teaching. | Human theologian |
Luke 13 — Call to Repent; Kingdom Parables (Mustard Seed, Leaven); Narrow Door; Lament over Jerusalem
| Doctrine | Risk | Supporting Passages | Translation Risk Notes | Review Routing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Repentance and Forgiveness of Sins | High | 13:1-5 | ”Si vous ne vous repentez pas” — urgency of repentance tied to the Galileans/Siloam tragedies. | Human theologian |
| Kingdom of God Present and Future | High | 13:18-21,29 | Mustard seed/leaven parables — small, hidden, growing kingdom presence. | Human theologian |
| New Covenant and Israel | High | 13:34 | Jerusalem lament — requires historically aware, non-polemical handling given France’s significant Jewish community. | Human theologian |
Luke 14 — Sabbath Healing; Teaching on Humility; The Great Banquet; Cost of Discipleship
| Doctrine | Risk | Supporting Passages | Translation Risk Notes | Review Routing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Good News to the Poor and Marginalized | High | 14:13,21,23 | Banquet guest list (“les pauvres, les infirmes, les aveugles, les boiteux”) — deliberate honor-shame reversal; “contrains-les d’entrer” (14:23) needs a teaching note distinguishing urgent invitation from historically-misused coercive conversion. | Human theologian |
| Cost and Joy of Discipleship | High | 14:25-33 | ”Compter le coût” — count-the-cost teaching on discipleship’s demands. | Human theologian |
Luke 15 — The Lost Sheep, Lost Coin, and Prodigal Son
| Doctrine | Risk | Supporting Passages | Translation Risk Notes | Review Routing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Repentance and Forgiveness of Sins | High | 15:7,10,18,21 | The chapter’s central theological engine; “perdu / retrouvé” refrain must remain textually identical across all three parables. | Human theologian |
| Compassion and Table Fellowship with Sinners | High | 15:1-2 | ”Cet homme accueille les pécheurs et mange avec eux” — the single clearest textual anchor of this doctrine in the whole Gospel. | Human theologian |
| Cost and Joy of Discipleship | High | 15:7,10,32 | Heaven’s joy over repentance and the father’s joy over the returned son — joy as a thematic, not merely emotional, motif. | Human theologian |
Luke 16 — The Shrewd Manager (Mammon); The Rich Man and Lazarus
| Doctrine | Risk | Supporting Passages | Translation Risk Notes | Review Routing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cost and Joy of Discipleship | High | 16:9,11,13 | ”Mamon” (transliterated, glossed “les richesses”) — personified rival master; do not flatten to bare “argent.” | Human theologian |
| Good News to the Poor and Marginalized | High | 16:19-25 | Lazarus/rich man reversal parable; reinforces eschatological reversal theme from the Beatitudes. | Human theologian |
| Inspiration of Scripture | Medium | 16:29-31 | ”Moïse et les prophètes” — authority of Scripture over even miraculous sign-seeking. | Native speaker review |
Luke 17 — Repentance and Forgiveness Teaching; The Kingdom in Your Midst; Ten Lepers
| Doctrine | Risk | Supporting Passages | Translation Risk Notes | Review Routing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Repentance and Forgiveness of Sins | High | 17:3-4 | ”S’il se repent, pardonne-lui” — repeated, unconditional forgiveness teaching. | Human theologian |
| Kingdom of God Present and Future | High | 17:20-21 | ”Au milieu de vous,” NOT “en vous” — disputed, doctrinally consequential rendering; 17:20 rejects observable-sign kingdom-spotting. | Human theologian |
| Faith | Medium | 17:19 | ”Ta foi t’a sauvée” — third verbatim-fixed occurrence, the grateful Samaritan leper. | Native speaker review |
| Unity of Jews and Gentiles, Rich and Poor | High | 17:11-19 | The one grateful leper is a Samaritan — reinforces the doctrine established at 10:25-37. | Human theologian |
Luke 18 — The Persistent Widow; The Pharisee and the Tax Collector; The Rich Young Ruler; The Blind Beggar
| Doctrine | Risk | Supporting Passages | Translation Risk Notes | Review Routing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Justification by Faith | Critical | 18:9-14 | Luke’s clearest justification-by-faith narrative. “Justifié,” never “pardonné” or “sanctifié” as a substitute — identical Trent-vs-Reformation flashpoint as the Romans baseline. | Human theologian |
| Compassion and Table Fellowship with Sinners | High | 18:13-14 | The tax collector’s posture (“Dieu, aie pitié de moi, pécheur”) models the doctrine’s repentant-outsider pattern. | Human theologian |
| Good News to the Poor and Marginalized | High | 18:35-43 | The blind beggar healed — narrative fulfillment of “recouvrer la vue aux aveugles” from 4:18. | Human theologian |
| Faith | Medium | 18:42 | ”Ta foi t’a sauvée” — fourth and final verbatim-fixed occurrence. | Native speaker review |
| Davidic Covenant | Medium | 18:38-39 | ”Fils de David” invoked by a marginalized blind beggar — royal-messianic title claimed by society’s outsider. | Native speaker review |
Luke 19 — Zacchaeus; The Triumphal Entry; Lament over Jerusalem; Cleansing the Temple
| Doctrine | Risk | Supporting Passages | Translation Risk Notes | Review Routing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salvation | Medium | 19:9-10 | ”Aujourd’hui le salut est venu pour cette maison… chercher et sauver ce qui était perdu” — programmatic mission-summary; cross-document verbatim consistency required. | Native speaker review |
| Compassion and Table Fellowship with Sinners | High | 19:1-10 | Zacchaeus, a chief tax collector, hosts Jesus — direct continuation of the ch.15 and ch.18 pattern. | Human theologian |
| Son of Man Christology | Critical | 19:10 | ”Le Fils de l’homme est venu chercher et sauver ce qui était perdu” — mission-defining Son of Man saying. | Human theologian |
| New Covenant and Israel | High | 19:41-44 | Jesus weeps over Jerusalem — historically aware, non-polemical handling required. | Human theologian |
Luke 20 — Authority Questioned; Parable of the Tenants; Paying Taxes to Caesar; The Resurrection Debate; Psalm 110
| Doctrine | Risk | Supporting Passages | Translation Risk Notes | Review Routing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Authority of Christ | Medium | 20:2,8 | Religious leaders challenge Jesus’ authority directly. | Native speaker review |
| Resurrection of Christ | Medium | 20:27-38 | Sadducee debate on the resurrection of the dead — conceptual groundwork for ch.24’s climactic fulfillment. | Native speaker review |
| Deity of Christ | Critical | 20:41-44 | Psalm 110 argument — Jesus shown to be David’s Lord; key textual anchor requiring theologian-level precision. | Human theologian |
| Lordship of Christ | High | 20:41-44 | Same passage; “Seigneur” must convey exclusive, supreme lordship, not the feudal-archaic French resonance. | Human theologian |
| Davidic Covenant | Medium | 20:41-44 | David’s own Lord — paradox resolving and elevating the Davidic-descent claims of ch.1-3. | Native speaker review |
Luke 21 — The Widow’s Offering; The Eschatological Discourse
| Doctrine | Risk | Supporting Passages | Translation Risk Notes | Review Routing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Good News to the Poor and Marginalized | High | 21:1-4 | The widow’s offering commended over the wealthy’s — reinforces the honor-shame reversal theme. | Human theologian |
| Kingdom of God Present and Future | High | 21:31 | ”Le Royaume de Dieu est proche” within the eschatological discourse — future-kingdom dimension. | Human theologian |
| Holy Spirit’s Work in Salvation History | Critical | 21:15 (implicit, “je vous donnerai des paroles”) | Anticipates the Spirit’s empowerment of witnesses under persecution, developed further at 24:49. | Human theologian |
Luke 22 — The Last Supper; Gethsemane; Betrayal; Peter’s Denial; Trial Before the Council
| Doctrine | Risk | Supporting Passages | Translation Risk Notes | Review Routing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Institution of the Lord’s Supper | Critical | 22:14-20 | ”Ceci est mon corps… mon sang” — the most denominationally fraught text in Christian tradition; render strictly literally, without importing either sacramental-realist or bare-memorialist glosses. | Human theologian |
| New Covenant and Israel | High | 22:20 | ”La nouvelle alliance” — continuity-and-fulfillment framing, not replacement/erasure of God’s covenant with Israel. | Human theologian |
| Prayer and Dependence on God | Medium | 22:32,40-46 | Gethsemane prayer (“Que ta volonté soit faite, non la mienne”) — apex of the dependence-on-God theme. | Native speaker review |
| Son of Man Christology | Critical | 22:22,48,69 | Betrayal and trial sayings; 22:69’s “assis à la droite de la puissance de Dieu” ties Son of Man directly to divine enthronement. | Human theologian |
| Sonship of Christ | Critical | 22:70 | ”Tu es donc le Fils de Dieu?” — Jesus’ own affirmation before the Council; maximal doctrinal precision required at the trial’s climax. | Human theologian |
Luke 23 — Trial Before Pilate and Herod; The Crucifixion; The Centurion’s Confession
| Doctrine | Risk | Supporting Passages | Translation Risk Notes | Review Routing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Savior for All Nations | Critical | 23:47 | A Gentile Roman centurion’s confession of Jesus’ innocence functions as outsider testimony reinforcing universal-Savior doctrine. | Human theologian |
| Prayer and Dependence on God | Medium | 23:34,46 | ”Père, pardonne-leur” and “Père, je remets mon esprit entre tes mains” — prayer at the point of death. | Native speaker review |
| Repentance and Forgiveness of Sins | High | 23:34,43 | Forgiveness prayer for executioners; the penitent thief’s assurance (“aujourd’hui tu seras avec moi dans le paradis”). | Human theologian |
Luke 24 — Resurrection; Road to Emmaus; Appearance to the Disciples; The Great Commission; The Ascension
| Doctrine | Risk | Supporting Passages | Translation Risk Notes | Review Routing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Resurrection of Christ | Medium | 24:6,34,39,46 | ”Chair et os” (24:39) anti-docetic bodily detail; doctrinal climax of the whole Gospel. | Native speaker review |
| Fulfillment of Prophecy | Medium | 24:25-27,44 | Risen Jesus’ own exposition of “la Loi, les Prophètes et les Psaumes” grounds this doctrine narratively at the Gospel’s close. | Native speaker review |
| Repentance and Forgiveness of Sins | High | 24:47 | ”La repentance et le pardon des péchés… à toutes les nations” — must use “nations,” not “païens”; structural bracket back to 4:18’s “ἄφεσις.” | Human theologian |
| Mission to the Nations | High | 24:47-49 | Great Commission-adjacent capstone; “à toutes les nations” and “puissance d’en haut” (Pentecost anticipation). | Human theologian |
| Holy Spirit’s Work in Salvation History | Critical | 24:49 | ”Puissance d’en haut” — final link in the Spirit-continuity chain running from 1:15 through Pentecost. | Human theologian |
| Ascension of Christ | Medium | 24:50-53 | ”Il fut enlevé au ciel” — established French liturgical feast term (“l’Ascension”); retain historical-bodily departure sense. | Native speaker review |
| Inspiration of Scripture | Medium | 24:27,32,44-45 | Risen Christ as authoritative interpreter of the whole OT witness to himself. | Native speaker review |
Doctrine Summary Table (All 35 Doctrines, Full Book)
| # | Doctrine | Risk | Review Routing |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gospel Proclamation | Low | Automated review |
| 2 | Apostleship | Low | Automated review |
| 3 | Humanity of Christ | Low | Automated review |
| 4 | Divine Calling | Medium | Native speaker review |
| 5 | Inspiration of Scripture | Medium | Native speaker review |
| 6 | Fulfillment of Prophecy | Medium | Native speaker review |
| 7 | Incarnation | Medium | Native speaker review |
| 8 | Davidic Covenant | Medium | Native speaker review |
| 9 | Resurrection of Christ | Medium | Native speaker review |
| 10 | Faith | Medium | Native speaker review |
| 11 | Salvation | Medium | Native speaker review |
| 12 | Prayer and Dependence on God | Medium | Native speaker review |
| 13 | Authority of Christ | Medium | Native speaker review |
| 14 | Ascension of Christ | Medium | Native speaker review |
| 15 | Messianic Promise | High | Human theologian |
| 16 | Lordship of Christ | High | Human theologian |
| 17 | Grace | High | Human theologian |
| 18 | Unity of Jews and Gentiles, Rich and Poor | High | Human theologian |
| 19 | Good News to the Poor and Marginalized | High | Human theologian |
| 20 | Repentance and Forgiveness of Sins | High | Human theologian |
| 21 | Kingdom of God Present and Future | High | Human theologian |
| 22 | Cost and Joy of Discipleship | High | Human theologian |
| 23 | Compassion and Table Fellowship with Sinners | High | Human theologian |
| 24 | New Covenant and Israel | High | Human theologian |
| 25 | Blasphemy Against the Holy Spirit | High | Human theologian |
| 26 | Mission to the Nations | High | Human theologian |
| 27 | Hallowing of God’s Name in Prayer | High | Human theologian |
| 28 | Election / Sovereign Choice | High | Human theologian |
| 29 | Deity of Christ | Critical | Human theologian |
| 30 | Sonship of Christ | Critical | Human theologian |
| 31 | Son of Man Christology | Critical | Human theologian |
| 32 | Savior for All Nations and All People | Critical | Human theologian |
| 33 | The Holy Spirit’s Work in Salvation History | Critical | Human theologian |
| 34 | Justification by Faith | Critical | Human theologian |
| 35 | Institution of the Lord’s Supper | Critical | Human theologian |
Totals: Critical = 7 · High = 14 · Medium = 11 · Low = 3 · Total doctrines = 35 Requiring human theologian review: 21 (all Critical + all High). Requiring native speaker review: 11 (all Medium). Automated review only: 3 (all Low).
Note: this tally reflects an accurate recount of the individual per-doctrine risk tiers recorded in assets/doctrine_risk_registry.json; every doctrine name and tier above is reproduced verbatim from that registry.
Full-Book Coverage Confirmation
Every chapter of Luke (1 through 24) has been reviewed above and contributes load-bearing doctrinal content; no chapter was silently omitted. Chapters 1–4 establish the Christological and pneumatological foundations culminating in the core passage (4:16-21); chapters 5–9 develop calling, forgiveness, and Christological titles; chapters 10–19 form the long travel narrative carrying the bulk of the discipleship, kingdom, repentance, and compassion doctrines; chapters 20–24 resolve the Christological claims (authority, Lordship, Sonship), institute the New Covenant meal, and culminate in the resurrection, commission, and ascension.
Critical Risk Doctrines
Deity of Christ
French name: la divinité du Christ
Key terms: son of God, Lord, God over all
Review routing: Human theologian
CRITICAL: co-equal divine nature must not be softened into ‘un homme divinement inspiré’ or ‘un grand prophète’; the Psalm 110 argument at 20:41-44, where Jesus is shown to be David’s Lord, is a key textual anchor requiring theologian-level precision.
Sonship of Christ
French name: la filiation du Christ
Key terms: son of God, beloved Son, his Son
Review routing: Human theologian
CRITICAL: eternal, unique Sonship, not adoptive or metaphorical sonship as in ordinary human ‘adoption filiale’; the Father’s voice at the Transfiguration (9:35) directly confirms this and must be rendered with maximal precision.
Son of Man Christology
French name: la christologie du Fils de l’homme
Key terms: Son of Man
Review routing: Human theologian
Luke’s favorite Christological self-designation, drawing on Daniel 7’s apocalyptic authority-figure; French readers with low OT-apocalyptic literacy risk reading it as merely ‘a human being’ rather than a divine-authority title, flattening a doctrine essential to Jesus’ own self-understanding.
Jesus as Savior for All Nations and All People (Jew and Gentile, Rich and Poor)
French name: Jésus, Sauveur de toutes les nations et de tous les peuples
Key terms: Savior, nations, light for revelation, no distinction, the poor and the rich alike
Review routing: Human theologian
CRITICAL because the single word ‘ethnē’ must be rendered as ‘nations’, NOT the baseline’s default ‘païens’, at every missional/inclusion occurrence (2:32; 24:47): ‘païens’ carries a pejorative connotation in modern French that would directly contradict the doctrine of dignified universal inclusion. Also note Jesus explicitly commends Gentile faith over Jewish unbelief at 4:25-27 and 7:9, a historically sensitive juxtaposition requiring careful, non-polemical French framing given France’s Jewish community.
The Holy Spirit’s Work in Salvation History
French name: l’œuvre de l’Esprit Saint dans l’histoire du salut
Key terms: Holy Spirit, Spirit of the Lord, filled with the Spirit, power from on high
Review routing: Human theologian
CRITICAL because the OT idiom ‘Πνεῦμα Κυρίου’ (Spirit of the Lord, 4:18) is the same divine Person as the ‘Esprit Saint’ of Pentecost; without a teaching note, French readers may perceive two different spirits rather than one continuous, personal divine agent across salvation history from Israel’s prophets to the apostles’ commissioning.
Justification by Faith
French name: la justification par la foi
Key terms: justified, went down to his house justified
Review routing: Human theologian
CRITICAL: this is Luke’s clearest justification-by-faith-alone narrative — the humble tax collector, not the self-righteous Pharisee, is declared righteous by God. Must use the exact baseline forensic-declaration framing (‘justifié’), never softened to ‘pardonné’ or ‘sanctifié’; this is the same Trent-vs-Reformation flashpoint documented in the Romans baseline and requires identical mandatory theologian review.
Institution of the Lord’s Supper
French name: l’institution de la Cène
Key terms: this is my body, this is my blood, new covenant in my blood
Review routing: Human theologian
CRITICAL: the most denominationally fraught text in Christian tradition (Catholic transubstantiation vs. Reformed/memorial views). French rendering must remain strictly literal (‘ceci est mon corps… mon sang’) without importing either a sacramental-realist or a bare-memorialist theological gloss; mandatory theologian review at every occurrence, parallel to the baseline’s justification/grace escalation logic.
High Risk Doctrines
Messianic Promise
French name: la promesse messianique
Key terms: messiah, christ, anointed, son of David
Review routing: Human theologian
The specific Jewish OT concept fulfilled exclusively in Jesus must not be flattened into a generic wise-teacher figure; the anointing at 4:18 uses a verb (‘il m’a oint’) that must never shift to the noun ‘onction’, which in French Catholic usage names the sacrament of Anointing of the Sick, not messianic Spirit-empowerment.
Lordship of Christ
French name: la seigneurie du Christ
Key terms: lord, Christ the Lord, Lord of David
Review routing: Human theologian
‘Seigneur’ carries feudal-historical resonance in French (‘le seigneur du château’), risking a distant, archaic-title reading rather than the exclusive, supreme lordship the Psalm 110 argument (20:41-44) and the birth announcement (2:11) both assert.
Grace
French name: la grâce
Key terms: grace, favored, unmerited
Review routing: Human theologian
The Vulgate-liturgical ‘pleine de grâce’ (1:28, the Hail Mary) risks importing Marian dogma of a permanently possessed fullness of grace beyond the Greek’s past-passive participle; must render ‘favorisée par la grâce (de Dieu)’ instead and flag for theologian review given this direct collision with baseline grace conventions.
Unity of Jews and Gentiles, Rich and Poor
French name: l’unité des Juifs et des non-Juifs, des riches et des pauvres
Key terms: Samaritan, tax collector, centurion, Gentiles
Review routing: Human theologian
The Good Samaritan (10:25-37) and the grateful Samaritan leper (17:11-19) depend on French readers grasping the historical Jewish-Samaritan enmity, a background not recoverable from the lexeme ‘Samaritain’ alone and requiring explicit teaching notes to preserve the doctrine’s force.
Good News to the Poor and Marginalized
French name: la Bonne Nouvelle pour les pauvres et les marginalisés
Key terms: poor, captives, blind, oppressed, the crippled, the lame
Review routing: Human theologian
Secular French ‘les pauvres’ easily narrows to a socio-economic charity/NGO category, risking loss of the fuller Lukan sense encompassing widows, lepers, tax collectors, and ethnic outsiders; the banquet guest list (14:13,21) is a deliberate honor-shame reversal that must retain its socially scandalous force in French.
Repentance and Forgiveness of Sins
French name: la repentance et le pardon des péchés
Key terms: repentance, forgiveness of sins, release
Review routing: Human theologian
‘Repentance’ must never be rendered ‘pénitence’, which imports the Catholic sacramental-penitential system (acts of penance, satisfaction) foreign to Luke’s transformative-reorientation sense; additionally, the single Greek word ‘aphesis’ spans both social release (4:18) and sin-forgiveness (24:47), a wordplay French cannot preserve lexically without a teaching note bridging the Nazareth manifesto and the Great Commission-adjacent capstone verse.
The Kingdom of God Present and Future
French name: le Royaume de Dieu, présent et à venir
Key terms: kingdom of God, has come near, in your midst, mysteries of the kingdom
Review routing: Human theologian
The now/not-yet tension is theologically load-bearing throughout Luke; 17:21’s disputed ‘entos hymōn’ requires a specific choice (‘au milieu de vous’, not ‘en vous’) to avoid tilting the doctrine toward an individualist-mystical reading not supported by 17:20’s rejection of observable-sign kingdom-spotting — a live, disputed rendering with real doctrinal consequence.
The Cost and Joy of Discipleship
French name: le coût et la joie du disciple
Key terms: take up his cross daily, follow, joy, count the cost
Review routing: Human theologian
The secular French idiom ‘porter sa croix’ (endure hardship generically) risks flattening Luke’s specific call to ongoing, voluntary self-denial into generic misfortune-bearing, stripping the doctrine of its deliberate, joy-paired costliness.
Jesus’ Compassion and Table Fellowship with Sinners
French name: la compassion de Jésus et sa communion de table avec les pécheurs
Key terms: sinner, tax collector, compassion, eats with them
Review routing: Human theologian
The Pharisaic complaint at 15:2 (‘this man receives sinners and eats with them’) is the single clearest textual anchor for this doctrine in the whole Gospel; while individual lexical risk (péché/pécheur) is only Medium, the doctrine’s centrality and its collision with respectability-based religious culture (ancient and modern) require theologian-level framing to preserve the scandal-and-grace tension rather than moralizing it away.
The New Covenant and Israel
French name: la nouvelle alliance et Israël
Key terms: new covenant, covenant, Israel
Review routing: Human theologian
‘La nouvelle alliance’ (22:20) must be taught as continuity-and-fulfillment of, not replacement/erasure of, God’s covenant with Israel; the Jerusalem laments (13:34; 19:41-44) require historically aware, non-polemical handling given France’s significant Jewish community and the baseline’s own sensitivity note on this proper name.
Blasphemy Against the Holy Spirit
French name: le blasphème contre l’Esprit Saint
Key terms: blasphemy against the Holy Spirit, will not be forgiven
Review routing: Human theologian
Requires careful, pastorally sensitive French handling; French Catholic penitential culture has a documented tendency toward scrupulous anxiety over one’s standing before God, the same class of risk the baseline flags for assurance-of-salvation teaching — this doctrine must be framed to avoid inducing that anxiety while preserving its seriousness.
Mission to the Nations
French name: la mission auprès des nations
Key terms: nations, sent, to all nations, power from on high
Review routing: Human theologian
France’s colonial missionary history carries live postcolonial critique in contemporary French theological discourse; frame mission as gospel proclamation, not cultural conquest, and ensure ‘ethnē’ is rendered ‘nations’ rather than the pejorative-leaning ‘païens’ in these inclusion-focused texts.
Hallowing of God’s Name in Prayer
French name: la sanctification du nom de Dieu dans la prière
Key terms: hallowed be your name, Father
Review routing: Human theologian
This phrase is liturgically fixed across nearly all French Christian traditions in the universally memorized ‘Notre Père’; any deviation from ‘que ton nom soit sanctifié’ would read as a doctrinal or textual error rather than a stylistic translation choice, given its near-universal French Christian familiarity.
Election / Sovereign Choice
French name: l’élection
Key terms: chose, the good portion, the Twelve
Review routing: Human theologian
‘Élection’ is the everyday French word for political/democratic elections, risking a reading of God’s choice of the Twelve as competitive or merit-based rather than sovereign and gracious, the same collision documented in the Romans baseline.
Medium Risk Doctrines
Divine Calling
French name: l’appel de Dieu
Key terms: called, calling, chosen
Review routing: Native speaker review
Risk of narrowing ‘calling’ to ‘vocation’ in the Catholic clergy/religious-life sense; Luke applies the summons to fishermen and tax collectors, not a religious elite.
Inspiration of Scripture
French name: l’inspiration de l’Écriture
Key terms: it is written, the Scriptures, the Law and the Prophets
Review routing: Native speaker review
Distinguish God-breathed Scripture from a purely literary or historical-critical reading common in secular French academic culture; the risen Jesus’ own exposition (24:27,32) grounds this doctrine narratively.
Fulfillment of Prophecy
French name: l’accomplissement de la prophétie
Key terms: fulfilled, it stands written, today this is fulfilled
Review routing: Native speaker review
‘S’est accomplie’ must be used, never ‘s’est réalisée’ (coincidental fulfillment); low OT literacy among French readers requires explicit cross-referencing to Isaiah 61 and other cited texts.
Incarnation
French name: l’incarnation
Key terms: overshadow, virgin, conceived, the Word became flesh (conceptual)
Review routing: Native speaker review
The Annunciation’s ‘overshadow’ (episkiazei) alludes to the Exodus Shekinah-cloud theophany, a background French readers will not recover without a teaching note; secular flattening via ‘incarner’ (to embody a role) is the chief lexical risk.
Davidic Covenant
French name: l’alliance davidique
Key terms: seed of David, throne of David, son of David
Review routing: Native speaker review
Requires OT background explanation for readers with low biblical literacy; ‘descendance de David’ is the modern, non-archaic rendering to use throughout.
Resurrection of Christ
French name: la résurrection du Christ
Key terms: raised, resurrection, risen, flesh and bones
Review routing: Native speaker review
Bodily, historical event; chief risk is secular naturalism reading ‘résurrection’ as metaphorical renewal, though 24:39’s ‘chair et os’ anti-docetic detail helpfully anchors the bodily claim for French readers.
Faith
French name: la foi
Key terms: faith, believe, your faith has saved you
Review routing: Native speaker review
The recurring formula ‘ta foi t’a sauvée’ must be verbatim-identical at all four occurrences (7:50; 8:48; 17:19; 18:42); personal trust in Jesus, not generic religiosity.
Salvation
French name: le salut
Key terms: salvation, saved, salvation has come
Review routing: Native speaker review
Must not imply salvation mediated only through institutional membership; 19:9-10’s pairing of salvation with ‘today’ and with a socially reviled tax collector reinforces the doctrine’s universal, ungated character.
Prayer and Dependence on God
French name: la prière et la dépendance envers Dieu
Key terms: prayer, Father, not my will but yours, hallowed be your name
Review routing: Native speaker review
Luke’s distinctive narrative pattern of Jesus praying at every major turning point must be preserved thematically; the Lord’s Prayer (11:2) requires exact match with the universally memorized ecumenical French liturgical wording (‘Notre Père qui es aux cieux, que ton nom soit sanctifié’), a High-risk liturgical-consistency point within an otherwise Medium-risk doctrine.
Authority of Christ
French name: l’autorité du Christ
Key terms: authority, with authority he commanded
Review routing: Native speaker review
French ‘autorité’ risks a bureaucratic-institutional connotation absent the personal, self-evident authority Luke stresses in Jesus’ teaching and exorcisms, distinct from the baseline’s ‘puissance de Dieu’ (a different Greek root, dynamis vs. exousia).
Ascension of Christ
French name: l’Ascension du Christ
Key terms: carried up into heaven, Ascension
Review routing: Native speaker review
Established French liturgical feast term ‘l’Ascension’; ensure the historical-bodily departure sense is retained in narrative rendering, not reduced to a merely spiritual or metaphorical exit.
Low Risk Doctrines
Gospel Proclamation
French name: la proclamation de l’Évangile
Key terms: gospel, good news, proclaim
Review routing: Automated review
Stable term shared across Catholic and Protestant French Bibles; low doctrinal risk, though the verb form must be capitalized (‘Bonne Nouvelle’) to preserve its authoritative weight rather than reading as casual pleasant news.
Apostleship
French name: l’apostolat
Key terms: apostle, the Twelve
Review routing: Automated review
Stable, established term; minimal risk of reduction to a generic teacher role.
Humanity of Christ
French name: l’humanité du Christ
Key terms: grew in wisdom, flesh and bones, hungry, wept
Review routing: Automated review
Real physical human nature and experience; no competing illusionist worldview in French culture, per the baseline’s general note.
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