Core Glossary

translation_memory.json is the enforced glossary for every Phase 2 translation in this curriculum. This document summarizes its shape and the principles behind it; see the Glossary Risk Groups for the full per-term entries.

Composition

The glossary holds 47 terms spanning all four risk tiers, drawn from the doctrines identified in Doctrine Analysis and grounded in the cultural risks identified in Culture Analysis. Every term entry records:

• The approved Hungarian translation
• The doctrine risk tier (Critical/High/Medium/Low)
• Explicitly rejected alternatives, with reasons specific to the internal Catholic-Reformed doctrinal split where relevant
• Notes explaining any non-obvious translation choice, including which Hungarian Christian tradition’s systematic theology a term risks defaulting toward

Governing principles

1. Established usage over invention — where the Károli tradition already has a settled rendering shared across confessions (evangélium, üdvösség, Szentlélek), this glossary follows it rather than proposing an alternative.
2. Explicit cross-confessional disambiguation, not silent avoidance — because so much of this glossary’s vocabulary carries opposite systematic theological content depending on the reader’s Reformed or Catholic formation, every Critical-risk term records both readings and translates to Romans’ own argument rather than either tradition’s later system (see Comparative Theology).
3. Version-controlled and append-only in Phase 2 — if a new term is discovered during document translation, it is added to translation memory and the version number incremented, never silently improvised per-document.

Relationship to the Doctrine Risk Registry

Every glossary term’s doctrine field links back to an entry in doctrine_risk_registry.json, so a term’s risk tier is always traceable to the specific doctrine it protects — the glossary enforces vocabulary and names its cross-confessional doctrinal freight, the doctrine registry explains why that vocabulary matters.