Passage
Romans 8
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Glossary Term
Abba
Aramaic term of intimacy preserved by Luther as 'Abba, lieber Vater' (Romans 8:15), retained in all major modern German translations.
ROM.8.15, ROM.8.23
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Glossary Term
Adoption
Luther's own term for huiothesia.
ROM.8.15, ROM.8.23
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Doctrine
Adoption into God's Family
Full son-status with complete inheritance rights; Luther's 'Kindschaft' preserves this better than the modern legal-procedural 'Adoption'.
ROM.8.15, ROM.8.23
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Doctrine
Assurance of Salvation
Assurance grounded in God's unchanging character; a historically significant Lutheran pastoral category (Heilsgewissheit was a live pastoral concern in Luther's own biography) that this curriculum can draw on directly.
ROM.8.1, ROM.8.28-39
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Glossary Term
Called
Context-sensitive: in 1:1 = called to apostleship; in 1:7 = called to be saints; in 8:28-30 = effectual calling to salvation.
ROM.8.28-30
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Glossary Term
Calling
'Berufung' is also the everyday word for career/life calling (Berufung zum Lehrer) and, distinctly, the legal term for a court appeal (Berufung einlegen) — a genuine German-specific homonym-collision risk requiring context to disambiguate from either secular sense.
ROM.8.28-30
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Doctrine
Christian Identity in Christ
Identity located in union with Christ, not national, denominational, or cultural heritage identity.
ROM.8.1
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Doctrine
Divine Calling
'Berufung' collides with two unrelated everyday senses (career vocation; legal appeal), requiring context to keep the divine-initiative sense clear.
ROM.8.28-30
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Doctrine
Effectual Calling
God's sovereign call ensuring the salvation of the called; German Reformed and Lutheran traditions differ in emphasis on predestination, requiring care not to over-systematize for a mixed audience.
ROM.8.28-30
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Glossary Term
Election
German Reformed (Calvinist) tradition, present in parts of western Germany, historically debated double predestination more directly than Lutherans, who tend toward a more pastoral, comfort-oriented emphasis on election.
ROM.8.28-30
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Glossary Term
Father
God as personal Father.
ROM.8.15, ROM.8.23
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Doctrine
Incarnation
Well-established doctrinal term; risk is register choice (Menschwerdung vs.
ROM.8.3
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Glossary Term
Incarnation
Native compound (becoming human) preferred in Lutheran catechetical register over the Latinate 'Inkarnation', which is more common in Catholic/academic register.
ROM.8.3
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Glossary Term
Intercession
Standard term used in both Catholic and Protestant German liturgy for congregational prayers of intercession; lower risk of Marian/saint-devotional conflation than in French or Italian since it functions primarily as the shared liturgical word for this practice.
ROM.8.26-27
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Glossary Term
Peace
In Romans 5:1, relational peace with God through justification, not merely psychological calm.
ROM.8.6
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Doctrine
Peace with God
Relational, covenantal peace through justification, not psychological calm.
ROM.8.6
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Doctrine
Prayer and Intercession
Direct access to God in Christ's name; 'Fürbitte' is a shared liturgical term across Catholic and Protestant German worship, lowering (though not eliminating) risk of Marian/saint-devotional conflation.
ROM.8.26-27
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Doctrine
Providence
Personal, purposive divine care; Enlightenment-era deist usage of 'die Vorsehung' risks an impersonal-force reading of Romans 8:28.
ROM.8.28-30
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Glossary Term
Providence
Also used in Enlightenment/deist philosophical German (e.g.
ROM.8.28-30
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Glossary Term
Resurrection
Bodily, historical, once-for-all event; no competing reincarnation folk-concept in German culture.
ROM.8.11
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Doctrine
Resurrection of Christ
Bodily, historical, once-for-all event; chief risk is secular naturalism reading it as metaphor rather than historical claim.
ROM.8.11
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Glossary Term
Son Of God
CRITICAL: full phrase required, conveying eternal, unique Sonship.
ROM.8.3, ROM.8.29
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Doctrine
Sonship of Christ
CRITICAL: eternal, unique Sonship, not adoptive or metaphorical sonship as in ordinary 'Kindschaft'.
ROM.8.3, ROM.8.29