Doctrine Analysis

This curriculum’s doctrine registry tracks 40 doctrines drawn from Romans 1-16, each recorded in full in doctrine_risk_registry.json with its risk tier, key terms, primary passages, and review routing.

Risk distribution

• Critical (8): Messianic Promise, Incarnation, Deity of Christ, Sonship of Christ, Resurrection of Christ, Grace, Salvation, Power of God for Salvation. All eight require human theologian review for every occurrence, because each has a mainstream kejawen mystical or ritual concept that inverts the doctrine.
• High (16): doctrines including Divine Calling, Lordship of Christ, Sanctification, Providence, and Universal Human Accountability, where mistranslation creates serious theological confusion even if it doesn’t outright invert the doctrine.
• Medium (13): doctrines like Gospel, Apostleship, Faith, Adoption, and Church as God’s People, where a native speaker review is sufficient because the risk is reduced clarity rather than doctrinal inversion.
• Low (3): Thanksgiving, Mutual Edification, and Christian Fellowship, cleared for automated review.

Why Power of God for Salvation is Critical here specifically

Unlike most other languages in this Language Package’s cohort, where “power of God” risk is a matter of avoiding a generically strong or impersonal word, Javanese has kasekten: a specific, widely understood concept of magical or ascetic-earned potency attributed to sacred objects, holy men, and legitimized rulers. This makes Power of God for Salvation a doctrine easily and fluently mistranslated into something achievable and possessable, warranting its Critical tier here.

Why Salvation requires framing, not just enforcement

Most Critical-risk terms in this Language Package are handled by forbidding a competing word. Salvation is different: the approved term itself, kaslametan, is embedded in the same word-family as the slametan ritual. This doctrine’s review routing exists not to catch a wrong word but to verify that every occurrence carries the theological framing needed to keep the reader from reading the ritual meaning into the text.

Review routing summary

24 of 40 doctrines (all Critical and High) route to mandatory human theologian review; 13 Medium-risk doctrines route to native speaker review; 3 Low-risk doctrines are cleared for automated review only. See doctrine_risk_registry.json’s risk_summary block for the exact counts.