Passage
Romans 8
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Glossary Term
Abba
Aramaic term of intimacy preserved as 'Abba, Padre' across CEI and Protestant Italian translations (Romans 8:15).
ROM.8.15, ROM.8.23
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Glossary Term
Adoption
Bare 'adozione' defaults to the modern legal-procedural child-adoption process; 'filiale' recovers the full-son-status, full-inheritance sense.
ROM.8.15, ROM.8.23
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Doctrine
Adoption into God's Family
Full son-status with complete inheritance rights; bare 'adozione' risks the modern legal-procedural sense unless qualified.
ROM.8.15, ROM.8.23
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Doctrine
Assurance of Salvation
Assurance grounded in God's unchanging character, not the ongoing sacramental-standing anxiety some Catholic catechesis can inadvertently foster.
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
HIGH RISK: 'vocazione' in Italian Catholic culture overwhelmingly connotes a call to priesthood or religious life, a live and salient category given Italy's dense concentration of Catholic religious orders.
ROM.8.28-30
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Doctrine
Christian Identity in Christ
Identity located in union with Christ, not national or nominal-Catholic cultural heritage identity.
ROM.8.1
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Doctrine
Divine Calling
HIGH RISK: Italian Catholic culture's dense concentration of clergy and religious orders makes 'vocazione' overwhelmingly connote priestly or religious-life calling, a strong risk of narrowing Paul's calling-of-every-believer language.
ROM.8.28-30
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Doctrine
Effectual Calling
'Elezione' is also the everyday word for political elections; Catholic theology's more synergistic (Thomistic) view of election also differs from Reformed-tradition assumptions a translator might otherwise import.
ROM.8.28-30
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Glossary Term
Election
HIGH RISK: 'elezione' is also the standard everyday word for political elections ('elezioni politiche'), risking a democratic-choice misreading.
ROM.8.28-30
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Glossary Term
Father
'Padre' is also the standard Italian title of address for a Catholic priest (e.g.
ROM.8.15, ROM.8.23
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Doctrine
Incarnation
Well-established doctrinal term; risk is secular flattening via 'incarnare' (to embody a role) rather than a competing religious concept.
ROM.8.3
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Glossary Term
Incarnation
Well-established doctrinal term via Catholic catechesis and Christmas liturgy.
ROM.8.3
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Glossary Term
Intercession
HIGH RISK: Catholic Marian and saint intercession (rosary, novenas, shrine pilgrimage culture such as Padre Pio devotion) is an exceptionally strong and pervasive devotional category in Italian Catholicism, likely the single strongest pull toward a saints/Mary-intercession default reading of any language in this batch, rather than the Spirit's/Christ's unique heavenly intercession in Romans 8.
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
HIGH RISK: Catholic Marian and saint intercession (rosary, novenas, shrine pilgrimage) is an exceptionally strong and pervasive devotional category in Italy, the single strongest pull toward a saints/Mary-intercession default reading of any language in this batch.
ROM.8.26-27
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Doctrine
Providence
Personal, purposive divine care; Manzoni's literary treatment of 'la Provvidenza' in 'I Promessi Sposi' gives Italian readers a strong but sometimes more fatalistic cultural reference point than Romans 8's promise.
ROM.8.28-30
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Glossary Term
Providence
'La Provvidenza' also carries a specific Italian literary resonance via Alessandro Manzoni's 'I Promessi Sposi' (a canonical novel studied by every Italian schoolchild), which has its own literary theology of Providence, distinct from and sometimes more fatalistic than Romans 8's promise.
ROM.8.28-30
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Glossary Term
Resurrection
Bodily, historical, once-for-all event; Easter's cultural centrality in Italy reinforces rather than dilutes the concept, among the lower-risk terms in this glossary.
ROM.8.11
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Doctrine
Resurrection of Christ
Bodily, historical, once-for-all event; Easter's cultural centrality in Italy reinforces rather than dilutes the concept.
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 'adozione filiale'.
ROM.8.3, ROM.8.29