Glossary Term
Risk: Medium- Approved rendering
- Kindschaft
- Transliteration
- Kindschaft
- Rejected alternatives
- Adoption (bare, legal-procedural)
Adoption
Luther’s own term for huiothesia. Modern bare ‘Adoption’ now defaults to the legal-procedural sense (adoption agencies); ‘Kindschaft’ preserves the full-son-status, full-inheritance sense.