Glossary Term
Risk: Medium- Approved rendering
- 福音
- Transliteration
- fukuin
- Rejected alternatives
- いい知らせ, グッドニュース
Gospel
Established Shinkaiyaku term. Main risk is not mistranslation but blankness: most secular Japanese readers have zero prior exposure to 福音 as a concept and will need it explained from scratch, unlike a culturally loaded term that carries a wrong meaning.
Referenced passages