Passage
Romans 8
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Glossary Term
Abba
Aramaic term of intimacy preserved in Romans 8:15.
ROM.8.15, ROM.8.23
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Glossary Term
Adoption
Full legal son-status with inheritance rights.
ROM.8.15, ROM.8.23
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Doctrine
Adoption into God's Family
Javanese customary adoption is culturally well understood; the emphasis needed is that this sonship is full, permanent, and comes with complete inheritance rights.
ROM.8.15, ROM.8.23
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Doctrine
Assurance of Salvation
Assurance rests on God's unchanging character, not on an uncertain fate (pesthi) or the need to repeat protective ritual to maintain safety.
ROM.8.1, ROM.8.28-39
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Glossary Term
Called
Katimbalan (being personally summoned, drawn from Javanese court protocol for a ruler summoning a subject) conveys a personal, relational call.
ROM.8.28-30
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Glossary Term
Calling
Noun form for the state of being called.
ROM.8.28-30
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Doctrine
Christian Identity in Christ
Identity is located in union with Christ, not in mystical self-perfection (kasampurnan) or inherited priyayi social status.
ROM.8.1
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Doctrine
Divine Calling
God's personal call must be distinguished from wahyu, the impersonal mystical mandate-light Javanese tradition holds can legitimize a ruler's authority.
ROM.8.28-30
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Doctrine
Effectual Calling
God's sovereign call that secures the salvation of the called; not the impersonal, transferable wahyu believed to legitimize rulers.
ROM.8.28-30
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Glossary Term
Election
God's sovereign personal choice, not wahyu, the impersonal mystical mandate believed to legitimize a Javanese ruler's claim to the throne.
ROM.8.28-30
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Glossary Term
Father
God as personal, relational Father.
ROM.8.15, ROM.8.23
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Doctrine
Incarnation
CRITICAL: The eternal Son permanently taking on a distinct human nature, once.
ROM.8.3
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Glossary Term
Incarnation
CRITICAL: NEVER use manunggaling kawula gusti, the central Javanese mystical teaching (traced to Syekh Siti Jenar and embedded broadly in kejawen and Javanese Sufi thought) that the human self and the Divine become indistinguishably fused through spiritual attainment.
ROM.8.3
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Glossary Term
Intercession
Prayer on behalf of others addressed to God directly, not nyuwun berkah ing kuburan (seeking blessing at a grave), a common practice at Wali Songo tomb pilgrimage sites.
ROM.8.26-27
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Glossary Term
Peace
In Romans 5:1, relational peace with God through justification, not the inner calm sought through spiritual discipline or meditative practice.
ROM.8.6
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Doctrine
Peace with God
Relational, covenantal peace through justification, not the inner stillness pursued through mystical meditative discipline.
ROM.8.6
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Doctrine
Prayer and Intercession
Direct access to God in Christ's name; distinguish from seeking blessing at a wali's grave or petitioning a village guardian spirit (danyang).
ROM.8.26-27
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Doctrine
Providence
God's personal, purposive, loving care; never bare pesthi (impersonal predetermined fate) or the passive nrimo ing pandum ethic of simply accepting one's lot.
ROM.8.28-30
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Glossary Term
Providence
God's personal, loving governance; never bare pesthi (impersonal predetermined fate) or the passive fatalistic ethic of nrimo ing pandum (accepting one's lot without expecting a personal, purposive Governor behind it).
ROM.8.28-30
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Glossary Term
Resurrection
CRITICAL: Never use titisan (the Javanese belief that an ancestor's or deity's spiritual quality is reborn or manifested in a later descendant or chosen figure, often invoked in royal-legitimacy narratives) or reinkarnasi.
ROM.8.11
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Doctrine
Resurrection of Christ
CRITICAL: Bodily, historical, once-for-all resurrection.
ROM.8.11
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Glossary Term
Son Of God
CRITICAL: Full phrase required.
ROM.8.3, ROM.8.29
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Doctrine
Sonship of Christ
CRITICAL: Eternal, unique Sonship, not a titled royal descendant or a mystically fused devotee.
ROM.8.3, ROM.8.29