Passage
Romans 12
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Doctrine
Christian Identity in Christ
Identity located in union with Christ, not national or nominal-Catholic cultural heritage identity.
ROM.12.5
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Glossary Term
Church
HIGH RISK: capitalized 'la Chiesa' denotes the global Catholic institution in a country where the Vatican is physically located and Catholic identity is deeply enmeshed with national culture — arguably the most institutionally loaded rendering of ekklesia in this batch.
ROM.12.4-5
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Doctrine
Church as God's People
HIGH RISK: 'la Chiesa' is about as institutionally loaded a rendering of ekklesia as exists in any language in this batch, given the Vatican's physical presence in Italy and Catholic identity's deep enmeshment with Italian national culture.
ROM.12.4-5
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Doctrine
Separation unto God's Service
Must not collapse into monastic withdrawal; biblical separation is devotion to God while remaining engaged in ordinary life.
ROM.12.1-2
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Doctrine
Spiritual Gifts
Catholic Charismatic Renewal, Pentecostal, and traditional evangelical streams all engage this vocabulary with different emphases; keep gifts explicitly Spirit-given, not natural talent.
ROM.12.6-8
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Glossary Term
Spiritual Gifts
Italy has one of the world's largest Catholic Charismatic Renewal movements (Rinnovamento nello Spirito Santo) alongside a significant Pentecostal denomination (Assemblee di Dio in Italia) and smaller traditional evangelical communities — a genuinely three-way denominational engagement with spiritual-gifts vocabulary unique to Italy in this batch.
ROM.12.6-8