Passage
Romans 3
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Doctrine
Faith
Personal trust in Christ, not generic secular 'Weltanschauung'-style belief.
ROM.3.22-28
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Glossary Term
Faith
Secularized usage now often treats 'Glaube' as generic worldview or spirituality ('etwas Höheres glauben').
ROM.3.22-28
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Doctrine
Fulfillment of Prophecy
Linear historical fulfillment (OT to NT); low OT literacy among secular or lightly-churched readers requires explicit cross-referencing.
ROM.3.21
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Glossary Term
Gentiles
HIGH RISK: the traditional Lutheran rendering carries a pejorative 'uncivilized pagan' connotation in modern German.
ROM.3.29-30
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Doctrine
Grace
Luther's 'sola gratia' versus Catholic sacramental grace (Gnadenmittel) is the same word carrying different doctrinal freight; must always reinforce 'apart from merit'.
ROM.3.24
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Glossary Term
Grace
Luther's 'sola gratia' (Gnade allein) is a Reformation cornerstone.
ROM.3.24
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Glossary Term
Israel
Germany's post-Holocaust national policy (Staatsräson, explicitly tying German national identity to Israel's security) makes biblical Israel especially prone to conflation with the modern nation-state in German public discourse, a distinctly acute version of this general Western risk.
ROM.3.29-30
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Glossary Term
Law
'Gesetz und Evangelium' (law and gospel) is a cornerstone Lutheran hermeneutical dialectic, more load-bearing in German homiletic tradition than in most other languages in this batch.
ROM.3.21
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Glossary Term
Prophecy
Luther's older term, still current; 'Prophezeiung' also acceptable.
ROM.3.21
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Glossary Term
Sin
Secularization risk: colloquial German uses 'Sünde' loosely for minor indulgence (a 'Sünde' on a diet, eating cake), risking trivialization of Romans' weightier sense of culpable rebellion against God.
ROM.3.23
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Doctrine
Unity of Jews and Gentiles
Given Germany's specific historical relationship to antisemitism, this pairing requires unusually careful, historically aware handling from reviewers rather than casual paraphrase.
ROM.3.29-30
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Doctrine
Universal Human Accountability
Universal guilt before God; watch for colloquial trivialization of 'Sünde' softening the force of 'all have sinned'.
ROM.3.23