Passage

Romans 8

• Glossary Term

  Abba

  Aramaic term of intimacy preserved in Romans 8:15 in the NT's own Greek text (transliterated there too, since Aramaic 'Abba' was foreign even to the original Greek-speaking audience); retain the transliteration paired with 'Πατέρα.'

  ROM.8.15, ROM.8.23

• Glossary Term

  Adoption

  Standard modern legal-and-theological term; low risk.

  ROM.8.15, ROM.8.23

• Doctrine

  Adoption into God's Family

  Full son-status with complete inheritance rights; lexically clear and stable.

  ROM.8.15, ROM.8.23

• Doctrine

  Assurance of Salvation

  Assurance grounded in God's unchanging character and Christ's finished work; Orthodox theosis theology, which treats salvation as an ongoing, uncompleted synergistic process, can foster a different, more provisional kind of confidence than Romans 8's language of settled assurance.

  ROM.8.1, ROM.8.28-39

• Glossary Term

  Called

  Same NT word; see 'calling' for the specific Modern Greek semantic-bleaching risk affecting the related noun.

  ROM.8.28-30

• Glossary Term

  Calling

  CRITICAL, and a uniquely Greek risk: in Modern Greek, 'κλήση' overwhelmingly means an ordinary phone call or a legal summons/traffic ticket in everyday speech ('μου ήρθε κλήση,' 'I got a ticket').

  ROM.8.28-30

• Doctrine

  Christian Identity in Christ

  Identity located in union with Christ, not in inherited Greek Orthodox national-cultural identity (a fusion of Greek ethnic and Orthodox religious identity with real historical roots, comparable structurally to but distinct in origin from Poland's Polak-katolik pattern).

  ROM.8.1

• Doctrine

  Divine Calling

  CRITICAL: 'κλήση' has been worn down by everyday Modern Greek usage into the ordinary word for a phone call or a legal/traffic summons.

  ROM.8.28-30

• Doctrine

  Effectual Calling

  God's sovereign call; 'εκλογή' (election) risks being read through its dominant modern political sense (elections, voting) rather than God's gracious choice.

  ROM.8.28-30

• Glossary Term

  Election

  Same NT word, but Modern Greek 'εκλογή/εκλογές' is dominated by its political sense (elections, voting) in everyday usage.

  ROM.8.28-30

• Glossary Term

  Father

  God as personal Father; standard and unambiguous.

  ROM.8.15, ROM.8.23

• Doctrine

  Incarnation

  The patristic formula 'God became man so that man might become god,' written originally in Greek by Athanasius, strongly emphasizes the incarnation as the basis for theosis.

  ROM.8.3

• Glossary Term

  Incarnation

  Standard Greek Orthodox theological term (also σάρκωσις, 'being made flesh'), central to the patristic formula, written originally in Greek by Athanasius, 'God became man so that man might become god' (theosis).

  ROM.8.3

• Glossary Term

  Intercession

  Greek Orthodox piety gives saints' and especially the Παναγία's ('All-Holy,' the standard Greek title for Mary) intercession a constant, central liturgical role (paraklesis services, pilgrimage sites such as Tinos).

  ROM.8.26-27

• Glossary Term

  Peace

  Relational peace with God through justification (Romans 5:1).

  ROM.8.6

• Doctrine

  Peace with God

  Relational, covenantal peace through justification; distinguish from the Hesychast mystical-contemplative sense of inner stillness (ἡσυχία).

  ROM.8.6

• Doctrine

  Prayer and Intercession

  Romans 8:26-27, 34 describe the Spirit and Christ interceding directly.

  ROM.8.26-27

• Doctrine

  Providence

  God's personal, purposive care; 'πρόνοια' is also the standard word for state social welfare, a secular institutional sense that should not crowd out the theological one.

  ROM.8.28-30

• Glossary Term

  Providence

  God's personal, purposive governance; established theological term, but Modern Greek 'πρόνοια' is also the standard word for state social-welfare provision ('Υπουργείο Πρόνοιας'), a secular institutional sense that should not crowd out the theological one.

  ROM.8.28-30

• Glossary Term

  Resurrection

  Same NT word.

  ROM.8.11

• Doctrine

  Resurrection of Christ

  CRITICAL, but also a doctrinal asset: Ανάσταση is the central feast of Greek Orthodox liturgical life, more culturally central than Christmas.

  ROM.8.11

• Glossary Term

  Son Of God

  CRITICAL: full phrase required.

  ROM.8.3, ROM.8.29

• Doctrine

  Sonship of Christ

  CRITICAL: eternal, unique Sonship, not the adoptive 'τέκνα Θεού' sense Romans 8 applies to believers.

  ROM.8.3, ROM.8.29