Glossary Term
Risk: High- Approved rendering
- Gemeinde
- Transliteration
- Gemeinde
- Rejected alternatives
- Kirche (institution-default)
Church
HIGH RISK: Catholic and state-church (Landeskirche) usage defaults ‘Kirche’ to the institution; Free church (Freikirche) and Pietist tradition prefer ‘Gemeinde’ for the gathered local body, closer to NT ekklesia. Germany’s church-tax system (Kirchensteuer) and formal ‘Kirchenaustritt’ (exit) further couple ‘Kirche’ with bureaucratic institution in the secular mind. This curriculum prefers ‘Gemeinde’ for the body-of-Christ sense.
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