Passage

Romans 13

• Glossary Term

  Justification

  CRITICAL: the historic Trent/Reformation flashpoint, live within Italy itself via its own indigenous Waldensian minority tradition.

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• Glossary Term

  Righteousness

  CRITICAL: 'giustizia di Dio' (Romans 1:17) must be read as God's saving, gift-status righteousness.

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• Doctrine

  Salvation

  Reconciliation with a personal God through Christ; must not imply salvation is mediated only through institutional membership.

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• Glossary Term

  Salvation

  Relatively stable shared term; risk is general biblical illiteracy amid rapid de-churching of a nominally still-Catholic population, rather than a competing rendering.

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