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Biblical Theme Map

Biblical Theme Map — 1 Corinthians (Full Book) — English → Kannada

Curriculum: 1 Corinthians 1–16 Core passage: 1 Corinthians 15:1–11 Companion curriculum in this language: Romans

Purpose: This document maps the letter’s own internal theme structure — how its ten curriculum doctrines rise, interweave, and resolve across sixteen chapters — and then traces each theme’s roots backward into the Old Testament and forward into the rest of the New Testament canon, so that teaching materials present 1 Corinthians as a coherent part of the whole biblical story rather than an isolated ethical manual. It builds directly on analysis/09_cross_reference_analysis.md and must not contradict any rendering already fixed there or in the Romans baseline.


Part 1 — The Letter’s Internal Theme Structure

1 Corinthians is a pastoral letter responding to a specific, divided, morally confused congregation, but its structure is not random: Paul consistently diagnoses factionalism and worldly status-seeking as the root problem (chs. 1–4), then applies the same underlying corrective — the cross’s pattern of self-giving, others-oriented love, exercised in Spirit-given unity — to a sequence of concrete pastoral problems (chs. 5–14), before grounding the entire letter in its ultimate horizon: the bodily resurrection, without which none of the preceding ethics would matter (ch. 15), and closing with practical, unifying instructions (ch. 16).

1.1 Structural Overview

SectionChaptersGoverning QuestionCurriculum Doctrine(s)
Opening: Thanksgiving and the presenting problem1:1-9What has God already given this divided church?Christian Unity versus Factionalism (introduced)
Divisions and the cross’s wisdom1:10–4:21Why do you divide over human leaders, when the cross itself overturns all human wisdom-status?Christian Unity versus Factionalism; The Cross as Wisdom and Power
A case of tolerated sin5:1-13Why do you boast about your tolerance instead of grieving and disciplining?Church Discipline and Holiness
Lawsuits and sexual purity6:1-20Whose are you, and whose is your body?Church Discipline and Holiness (extended); anticipates Marriage and Singleness
Marriage, singleness, and calling7:1-40How should conversion reshape (not necessarily change) one’s marital and social state?Marriage and Singleness
Idol meat and Christian liberty8:1–11:1How does love, not mere correct knowledge, govern the exercise of liberty?Christian Liberty and Idol Meat
Head coverings and the Lord’s Supper11:2-34How is right order and right remembrance to be honored in corporate worship?Order in Worship; The Lord’s Supper
Spiritual gifts, the body, and love12:1–14:40How do diverse gifts serve one body, and what makes their exercise truly edifying?Spiritual Gifts and the Body of Christ; Love as the Greater Way; Order in Worship
The resurrection15:1-58If Christ has not been raised, what is left of any of this?The Resurrection of Christ and Believers (the letter’s climactic anchor)
Closing instructions16:1-24How does this same body express practical, generous, expectant unity?Christian Unity versus Factionalism (resolved); The Lord’s Supper’s eschatological horizon (“Maranatha”)

1.2 The Cross as the Letter’s Structural Key

Chapters 1–4 do more than address a local dispute; they establish the interpretive lens for the entire letter. The cross, which appears as weakness and foolishness by worldly standards yet is in truth “the power of God and the wisdom of God” (1:24), becomes the pattern Paul repeatedly reapplies:

  • To factionalism (1:10-17; 3:1-9): status-seeking around human leaders is itself the “wisdom of this age” the cross overturns.
  • To church discipline (ch. 5): holiness, not tolerance-as-sophistication, marks a cross-shaped community.
  • To liberty (chs. 8–10): the “strong” must limit their rights for the weak, mirroring Christ’s own self-limiting love (cf. Philippians 2:5-8, though outside this curriculum’s book, the pattern is structurally identical).
  • To spiritual gifts (chs. 12–14): the “more excellent way” of love (ch. 13) is the cross’s self-giving logic applied to worship practice — gifts exercised for others’ good, not self-display.
  • To the resurrection itself (ch. 15): the crucified Christ is raised, meaning cross and resurrection together — not either alone — form the gospel “of first importance” (15:3-4).

This means The Cross as Wisdom and Power functions less as one doctrine among ten and more as the letter’s organizing theological grammar, into which the other nine doctrines are received. Teaching materials should make this explicit rather than treating the ten doctrines as a flat list.

1.3 The Resurrection as the Letter’s Foundation and Horizon

Though chapter 15 appears near the end, its logic is presupposed from the letter’s opening line: believers are “sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints” (1:2) because of what God has definitively done in Christ’s death and resurrection. Every preceding ethical instruction — unity, discipline, marriage, liberty, worship order, gifts, love — is grounded in the reality that:

  • Believers’ own future bodily resurrection (15:12-58) is what makes present bodily holiness meaningful (6:13-14, “the body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord… God raised the Lord and will also raise us up”).
  • The resurrection is what makes present suffering and self-denial in ministry non-futile (15:58, “your labor is not in vain,” directly answering the “worked harder… yet not I, but the grace of God” of 15:10).
  • The resurrection secures the future in which “God may be all in all” (15:28) — the ultimate resolution of all the letter’s this-worldly divisions.

Teaching implication: the core passage (15:1-11) should be taught not merely as “proof of the resurrection” in isolation but as the hinge that retroactively grounds every other doctrine in the curriculum.


Part 2 — Theme-by-Theme Canonical Trace

Each of the ten curriculum doctrines is traced here from its OT roots, through 1 Corinthians itself, to its resonance elsewhere in the NT canon (including the Romans curriculum already established in this language). This is intended to show translators and teachers how each theme connects across Scripture, not merely within this one letter.

2.1 The Resurrection of Christ and Believers

  • OT roots: Job’s confession of a future bodily vindication (Job 19:25-27); Isaiah’s resurrection hope (Isaiah 25:8; 26:19); Ezekiel’s valley of dry bones as a national-resurrection image (Ezekiel 37:1-14); Daniel’s explicit individual resurrection prophecy (Daniel 12:2); Hosea’s “third day” and ransom-from-death language (Hosea 6:2; 13:14).
  • In 1 Corinthians: the creedal core (15:1-11); the logical argument from Christ’s resurrection to the believers’ own (15:12-34); the nature of the resurrection body (15:35-49); the final victory over death (15:50-58).
  • Elsewhere in the NT / Romans: Romans 1:4 (Christ “declared to be the Son of God… by his resurrection”); Romans 4:25; Romans 6:4-5 (union with Christ’s resurrection); Romans 8:11 (the Spirit who raised Christ will give life to mortal bodies — directly anticipating 1 Corinthians 15:44’s “spiritual body”); also 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18; Revelation 20:4-6; 21:1-4 (final bodily resurrection and renewed creation).
  • Kannada rendering continuity: ಪುನರುತ್ಥಾನ must be used identically across every one of these texts wherever they are taught together; never ಪುನರ್ಜನ್ಮ, and the doctrine must be taught as ending, not continuing, a cycle — directly relevant given Karnataka’s widespread cultural familiarity with reincarnation frameworks.

2.2 Christian Unity versus Factionalism

  • OT roots: Israel’s covenant unity as “one people” under one God (Deuteronomy 6:4; Psalm 133’s blessing on unified brothers); the tragedy of the divided kingdom (1 Kings 12) as a cautionary type of what factionalism produces.
  • In 1 Corinthians: the presenting crisis of the letter (1:10-17; “I follow Paul… I follow Apollos… I follow Cephas… I follow Christ”); the temple/field-and-building metaphors of unified growth (3:5-9); the one-body-many-members metaphor (12:12-27) as the letter’s fullest positive picture of unity amid diversity.
  • Elsewhere in the NT / Romans: Jesus’s high priestly prayer for the disciples’ unity (John 17:20-23); Romans 12:3-8’s briefer one-body teaching (a direct structural parallel to 1 Corinthians 12); Ephesians 4:1-6, 11-16’s “one body, one Spirit… one Lord, one faith, one baptism.”
  • Cultural note for Kannada teaching: the ten curriculum’s own semantic analysis (07) already flags that “factions” carries live resonance with Karnataka’s plural matha (monastic-lineage) loyalties and denominational partisanship; teaching should make clear the rebuke falls on any party-loyalty that divides believers under human leaders, including a professed “Christ party” (1:12) used as one more competing badge.

2.3 The Cross as Wisdom and Power

  • OT roots: the Suffering Servant whose humiliation accomplishes God’s saving purpose (Isaiah 52:13–53:12); Wisdom literature’s own recurring theme that “the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom” (Proverbs 9:10) as opposed to self-generated human cleverness (already anticipated in Isaiah 29:14 and Job 5:13, both directly quoted in 1 Corinthians 1, 3).
  • In 1 Corinthians: 1:18-31 (the cross as folly-yet-power/wisdom); 2:1-16 (Spirit-revealed wisdom versus worldly wisdom); the recurring σοφία/ἰσχύς contrast through ch. 3.
  • Elsewhere in the NT / Romans: Romans 1:16 (“the gospel… is the power of God for salvation”); Colossians 2:2-3 (“Christ, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge” — outside this curriculum’s book but a natural forward-reference for teachers); Romans 1:22-23’s critique of those who “claiming to be wise, became fools.”
  • Kannada rendering continuity: ದೇವರ ಸಾಮರ್ಥ್ಯ (power of God) must be reused exactly from Romans 1:16 at every 1 Corinthians occurrence (1:18, 24; 2:5); ಜ್ಞಾನ (wisdom) requires the heaviest ongoing contextual anchoring of any term in this curriculum, given its Advaita jñāna-mārga resonance — every occurrence must be tied back to “God’s wisdom revealed in the crucified Christ.”

2.4 Church Discipline and Holiness

  • OT roots: the Mosaic requirement to “purge the evil person from among you” for specific covenant-community sins (Deuteronomy 17:7 and parallels); the Passover’s unleavened-bread purity symbolism (Exodus 12:15-20) directly invoked in 1 Corinthians 5:6-8.
  • In 1 Corinthians: the case of tolerated incest and the call to “deliver this man to Satan… that his spirit may be saved” (5:1-13); the “you were washed, sanctified, justified” triad marking conversion as the ground of the ethical demand (6:9-11); the temple-holiness argument applied to the individual body (6:18-20).
  • Elsewhere in the NT / Romans: Matthew 18:15-17’s process for confronting sin in the church; 2 Thessalonians 3:6, 14-15’s similar restorative-discipline instruction; Romans 6:1-2’s “shall we go on sinning that grace may increase? By no means!”; Romans 6:19, 22’s ಪವಿತ್ರೀಕರಣ (sanctification) vocabulary reused exactly in 1 Corinthians 1:30, 6:11.
  • Cultural note: as the semantic analysis observes, Lingayat kayaka theology’s this-worldly, non-renunciate ethic is in some ways culturally closer to Paul’s “holiness while remaining in ordinary life” pattern than classic ascetic withdrawal — but the source of holiness (God’s declarative and Spirit-worked act, not disciplined labor) must remain the clear point of difference.

2.5 Marriage and Singleness

  • OT roots: the Genesis creation ordinance of marriage as “one flesh” (Genesis 2:24, directly quoted in 1 Corinthians 6:16); the goodness of the marital bond celebrated throughout Wisdom literature (e.g., Proverbs 5:18-19; Song of Songs, not directly quoted but part of the same canonical affirmation of marriage’s goodness).
  • In 1 Corinthians: the whole of chapter 7 — marital obligations (7:1-7), counsel to the unmarried and widowed (7:8-9), the permanence of marriage and exceptions (7:10-16), the “state in which you were called” principle (7:17-24), and the case for undistracted devotion in singleness during “the present distress” (7:25-40).
  • Elsewhere in the NT / Romans: Jesus’s own teaching on marriage and divorce grounded in the same Genesis 2:24 text (Matthew 19:3-9); Ephesians 5:22-33’s Christ-and-church marriage typology; Hebrews 13:4’s affirmation that “marriage is honorable among all.”
  • Cultural note: teaching materials must resist the common misreading (reinforced by the Hindu āśrama-stage system, in which householder life is a stage eventually transcended by renunciation) that Paul ranks singleness as spiritually superior to marriage; both are “gifts from God” (7:7) suited to different callings, neither conferring higher spiritual rank.

2.6 Christian Liberty and Idol Meat

  • OT roots: the Shema’s strict monotheism (Deuteronomy 6:4, echoed and Christologically expanded in 1 Corinthians 8:6); the wilderness generation’s repeated idolatry, sexual immorality, and testing of God as a typological warning catena (Exodus 32:6; Numbers 25:1-9; Numbers 21:5-6; Numbers 14 and 16 — all directly cited in 1 Corinthians 10:1-11); the demonic reality behind pagan sacrifice (Deuteronomy 32:17).
  • In 1 Corinthians: the full arc from ch. 8 (knowledge vs. love, the weaker believer’s conscience) through ch. 9 (Paul’s own example of rights voluntarily foregone) to ch. 10 (the wilderness warnings, the exclusivity of the Lord’s table versus the table of demons, and the practical market/dinner-table guidance of 10:23-11:1).
  • Elsewhere in the NT / Romans: the Jerusalem council’s ruling on food offered to idols (Acts 15:19-20, 28-29); Romans 14:1-23’s closely parallel teaching on food, conscience, and not causing a brother to stumble; Revelation 2:14, 20’s continued concern about eating food sacrificed to idols in the seven-churches letters.
  • Cultural note: this is the single most culturally load-bearing theme of the letter for a Kannada-speaking audience, given the prevalence of temple worship, and the ಪ್ರಸಾದ collision documented in the Core Glossary; teaching should present Paul’s two-sided balance (the idol is “nothing,” 8:4; yet real demonic activity and communal witness are at stake, 10:19-22) rather than a one-sided simplification in either direction.

2.7 The Lord’s Supper

  • OT roots: the Passover lamb and unleavened bread (Exodus 12, typologically fulfilled per 1 Corinthians 5:7-8); the Sinai covenant-ratifying blood ceremony (Exodus 24:8); Jeremiah’s new covenant promise (Jeremiah 31:31-34), explicitly named in the institution words (1 Corinthians 11:25).
  • In 1 Corinthians: the abuse of the common meal by wealthier members (11:17-22); the institution narrative itself (11:23-26), Paul’s earliest-attested written account of Jesus’s own words; the warning against unworthy participation and the call to self-examination (11:27-32); the earlier “cup of blessing… participation in the blood of Christ” teaching (10:16-17), which frames the Supper as real spiritual participation, not a bare memorial only.
  • Elsewhere in the NT / Romans: the Synoptic institution accounts (Luke 22:19-20 and parallels); Hebrews 9:11-15’s development of the new covenant theme in terms of Christ’s once-for-all sacrifice; no direct parallel passage exists in Romans, making this doctrine’s OT/typological grounding especially important for a Kannada audience without a prior Romans-curriculum touchpoint.
  • Cultural note: ಕರ್ತನ ಭೋಜನ must be taught as a commemoration of a finished, once-for-all sacrifice — categorically distinct from any naivedya/prasāda pattern in which food is offered to a deity and returned as blessing; here, God himself is the giver, not the recipient, of the sacrifice being commemorated.

2.8 Spiritual Gifts and the Body of Christ

  • OT roots: the Spirit distributed among the seventy elders to share Moses’s burden (Numbers 11:16-17, 24-29 — including Moses’s own wish that “all the Lord’s people were prophets”); Joel’s promise that God would “pour out my Spirit on all flesh” (Joel 2:28-29), a promise Paul treats as now being fulfilled in the diverse Spirit-gifted church.
  • In 1 Corinthians: the taxonomy of gifts and their single Spirit-source (12:1-11); the extended body metaphor with its climactic reversal — the “weaker” and “less honorable” parts receive greater honor, not less (12:12-26); the ranked-but-united list of gifts and offices (12:27-31); the practical regulation of tongues and prophecy in orderly worship (ch. 14).
  • Elsewhere in the NT / Romans: Acts 2:1-21’s Pentecost fulfillment of Joel’s promise; Romans 12:3-8’s parallel (but more compact) body-and-gifts teaching, using overlapping vocabulary (ಅಂಗಗಳು/members) that must be rendered consistently across both curricula; Ephesians 4:7-16’s gifts-for-unity teaching.
  • Cultural note: this is the doctrine carrying the single most historically loaded target-culture collision in the whole book — the Puruṣasūkta’s (Rig Veda 10.90) cosmic-body-and-varṇa myth. Teaching materials must make the contrast explicit: Paul’s body has no ranked origin-myth assigning permanent social status by body part; instead the “weaker” parts are indispensable and given greater honor (12:22-24), and there is to be “no division in the body” (12:25) — the opposite theological move from any hierarchy-justifying reading of a differentiated-body image.

2.9 Love as the Greater Way

  • OT roots: the command to “love your neighbor as yourself” (Leviticus 19:18) and to “love the Lord your God with all your heart” (Deuteronomy 6:5) — the two loves Jesus later names as the greatest commandments (Matthew 22:37-40, outside this curriculum’s book but essential background).
  • In 1 Corinthians: chapter 13’s sustained meditation on ἀγάπη as patient, kind, not self-seeking, not easily angered — explicitly framed (12:31; 14:1) as the governing standard for how spiritual gifts (ch. 12, 14) must be exercised, and ranked even above faith and hope (13:13).
  • Elsewhere in the NT / Romans: Jesus’s “new commandment… love one another” (John 13:34-35); Romans 5:5’s “God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit”; Romans 13:8-10’s “love is the fulfilling of the law”; 1 John 4:7-21’s extended meditation on God’s own nature as love.
  • Cultural note: ಪ್ರೀತಿ must be taught as distinct from Haridasa bhakti tradition’s romantic, longing prema-bhakti/viraha-bhakti directed toward a chosen deity (a God-directed emotional yearning); Paul’s ἀγάπη is deliberately unromantic, willed, active, and directed primarily toward other believers, not primarily an inward devotional feeling toward God — a genuinely important reframing for an audience formed by that devotional vocabulary.

2.10 Order in Worship

  • OT roots: the detailed, deliberately ordered arrangement of Israel’s tabernacle worship, priestly service, and camp organization (cf. Numbers 1-4’s structured, tribe-by-tribe encampment and Levitical duties) as a broad canonical pattern of God valuing order in corporate worship, though not directly quoted in 1 Corinthians.
  • In 1 Corinthians: the head-covering discussion grounded in creation order (11:2-16); the regulation of tongues and prophecy so that “all things be done decently and in order” (14:26-40); the disputed instruction regarding women’s speech in the assembly (14:34-35), which must be taught alongside 11:5’s assumption that women do pray and prophesy in the gathered assembly.
  • Elsewhere in the NT / Romans: 1 Timothy 2:8-15 and 1 Timothy 3’s related instructions on worship order and church office; no direct Romans parallel, though Romans 13:1-7’s teaching on ordered authority in civil government provides a structurally similar (if not textually connected) affirmation that God values ordered, not chaotic, structures.
  • Cultural note: the head/headship material (11:2-16) requires particular sensitivity given Karnataka’s varied kinship structures, including coastal Karnataka’s matrilineal Aliyasantana/Bunt traditions; 14:34-35 is flagged in the Core Glossary as a genuine interpretive crux requiring mandatory theologian review and a translator’s note documenting the interpretive options rather than a unilateral resolution.

Part 3 — How the Ten Doctrines Interlock (Theme Convergence Map)

The following table shows where two or more curriculum doctrines converge within a single passage, which is important for teaching sequencing (a single lesson may need to address more than one doctrine at once) and for glossary consistency (a single term may be load-bearing for more than one doctrine simultaneously).

PassageDoctrines in ConvergenceNote
1 Corinthians 1:18-31The Cross as Wisdom and Power + Christian Unity versus FactionalismThe cross both defines true wisdom/power and levels the status-distinctions that fuel factionalism (1:26-29).
1 Corinthians 5:1-13Church Discipline and Holiness + The Lord’s Supper (typologically, via Passover/leaven)The Passover-lamb typology (5:7) links the discipline case directly to the Supper’s own OT roots.
1 Corinthians 6:12-20Christian Liberty and Idol Meat + Marriage and Singleness + Church Discipline and HolinessThe “body as temple” argument grounds both the sexual-purity discipline of ch. 6 and the marriage theology of ch. 7.
1 Corinthians 8:1–11:1Christian Liberty and Idol Meat + Love as the Greater WayChapter 8 explicitly subordinates “knowledge” to love (8:1-3) as the controlling principle for liberty questions, anticipating ch. 13.
1 Corinthians 10:14-22Christian Liberty and Idol Meat + The Lord’s SupperThe Lord’s table and the table of demons are directly contrasted (10:21), making idol-meat ethics and Lord’s Supper theology mutually interpreting.
1 Corinthians 11:2-34Order in Worship + The Lord’s SupperBoth halves of ch. 11 concern right conduct in the gathered assembly.
1 Corinthians 12:1–14:40Spiritual Gifts and the Body of Christ + Love as the Greater Way + Order in WorshipThe three-chapter unit is a single sustained argument: gifts (12) must be exercised in love (13) and with order (14).
1 Corinthians 15:1-58The Resurrection of Christ and Believers + The Cross as Wisdom and Power (15:3, “Christ died… according to the Scriptures”)The chapter opens by re-anchoring the whole letter in the same cross-and-resurrection gospel introduced in ch. 1-2.
1 Corinthians 16:1-24Christian Unity versus Factionalism (resolved) + The Lord’s Supper (eschatological horizon, “Maranatha”)The collection for Jerusalem believers (16:1-4) enacts practical trans-local unity; “Maranatha” (16:22) points the whole letter’s resurrection hope toward Christ’s still-future return.

Part 4 — Canonical Trajectory Summary (For Teaching Sequencing)

A single-paragraph trajectory for each doctrine, suitable for lesson-introduction framing:

  1. Resurrection: promised in shadow (Job, Isaiah, Ezekiel, Daniel, Hosea) → accomplished in Christ (1 Corinthians 15:3-8, echoing Romans 1:4) → guaranteed for believers (1 Corinthians 15:20-23, echoing Romans 8:11) → consummated at Christ’s return (1 Corinthians 15:51-57; Revelation 21).
  2. Unity vs. factionalism: covenant people called to be one (Deuteronomy 6:4; Psalm 133) → fractured by human status-seeking even within the church (1 Corinthians 1-4) → healed by the one-body, one-Spirit reality (1 Corinthians 12; Romans 12; Ephesians 4).
  3. Cross as wisdom/power: foreshadowed in the Suffering Servant (Isaiah 53) → proclaimed as the gospel’s very content (1 Corinthians 1-2; Romans 1:16) → applied as the church’s ongoing operating logic in every subsequent chapter of 1 Corinthians.
  4. Church discipline/holiness: rooted in covenant-community purity law (Deuteronomy 17:7) → applied pastorally and restoratively (1 Corinthians 5) → grounded finally in the believer’s own union with the Spirit-indwelt body (1 Corinthians 6).
  5. Marriage and singleness: instituted at creation (Genesis 2:24) → affirmed and reframed around undivided gospel devotion (1 Corinthians 7) → completed typologically in Christ-and-church marriage imagery (Ephesians 5).
  6. Liberty and idol meat: grounded in strict OT monotheism and wilderness warnings (Deuteronomy 6:4; Numbers 25) → worked out pastorally under the rule of love (1 Corinthians 8-10; Romans 14) → echoed in the churches’ ongoing struggle in Revelation 2.
  7. The Lord’s Supper: typified in Passover and Sinai covenant-blood (Exodus 12, 24) → promised as new covenant (Jeremiah 31) → instituted by Christ and transmitted by Paul (1 Corinthians 11) → awaits final fulfillment at Christ’s return (“Maranatha,” 1 Corinthians 16:22).
  8. Spiritual gifts and the body: anticipated in the Spirit given to the seventy elders and promised for “all flesh” (Numbers 11; Joel 2) → poured out at Pentecost (Acts 2) → organized for the church’s edification as one differentiated-yet-undivided body (1 Corinthians 12; Romans 12; Ephesians 4).
  9. Love as the greater way: commanded in the Law (Leviticus 19:18; Deuteronomy 6:5) → named the “more excellent way” governing all spiritual gifts (1 Corinthians 12:31-13:13) → declared the fulfilling of the whole law (Romans 13:8-10) and the very nature of God (1 John 4).
  10. Order in worship: patterned in Israel’s structured tabernacle worship (Numbers 1-4) → applied to head-covering, tongues, and prophecy in the gathered church (1 Corinthians 11, 14) → echoed in the Pastoral Epistles’ instructions for orderly church life (1 Timothy 2-3).

This document extends analysis/07_semantic_analysis.md, analysis/08_core_glossary.md, and analysis/09_cross_reference_analysis.md. It must be read alongside the Romans baseline’s doctrine_risk_registry.json for risk-tier routing; no rendering proposed here may contradict a term or doctrine note already fixed in that baseline.

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