Doctrine Analysis
Doctrine Analysis
This Language Package’s doctrine_risk_registry.json tracks 40 doctrines across Romans 1–16, each assigned a risk tier that drives Phase 2 review routing.
Risk tier summary
| Tier | Count | Review routing | Example doctrines |
|---|---|---|---|
| Critical | 7 | Human theologian, every occurrence | Salvation, Incarnation, Deity of Christ, Sonship of Christ, Resurrection of Christ, Lordship of Christ, Messianic Promise |
| High | 23 | Human theologian | Gospel, Divine Calling, Grace, Faith, Sanctification, Universal Scope of the Gospel, Unity of Jews and Gentiles |
| Medium | 7 | Native speaker review | Apostleship, Prayer and Intercession, Spiritual Gifts, Mission to the Nations, Evangelism |
| Low | 3 | Automated review only | Thanksgiving, Mutual Edification, Christian Fellowship |
Why Critical doctrines cluster where they do
Most of the seven Critical-risk doctrines share the familiar property found across this pipeline’s Hindu-influenced languages: a ready-made, fluent-sounding Konkani word drawn from Hindu theology that directly contradicts the doctrine (see Comparative Theology). Deity of Christ is the one Critical doctrine with an added, distinctively Konkani complication: the very word this Language Package must use for “God” (देव) is structurally shared with Goan Hindu practice’s individual temple deities, so getting Deity of Christ right depends not only on avoiding a wrong word but on consistently marking a genuinely necessary word as exclusive in context.
Review routing rationale
Critical and High risk doctrines (30 of 40) require mandatory human theologian review because an automated or native-speaker-only check could confirm the Konkani is fluent without catching that it imports a contradictory theological framework, or that a load-bearing use of देव lacks its required exclusivity marker. Native speaker review is sufficient for Medium-risk doctrines, where the concern is cultural and historical sensitivity (e.g. Goa’s Inquisition-era conversion history shaping evangelism tone) rather than doctrinal contradiction.
Critical Risk Doctrines
Deity of Christ
Konkani name: ख्रिस्ताचें देवपण
Key terms: son of God, declared son, God over all
Review routing: Human theologian
CRITICAL: Co-equal divine nature, not divine promotion or an elevated devotee/avatar-figure. Must not be softened to ‘a great and holy teacher’.
Incarnation
Konkani name: देहधारण
Key terms: flesh, seed of David, son born, came in flesh
Review routing: Human theologian
CRITICAL: The eternal Son permanently assuming human nature, once. Never अवतार. Unlike a generic ‘Hindu background’ risk description, this is concretely local: Goa’s own temple tradition (Mahalasa Narayani as Vishnu’s Mohini avatar at Mardol) makes avatar theology a lived, physically nearby devotional reality, not distant background.
Lordship of Christ
Konkani name: ख्रिस्ताचें प्रभूपण
Key terms: lord, lord jesus, jesus is lord
Review routing: Human theologian
CRITICAL: Romans 10:9 — ‘Jesus is Lord’ is the salvation confession. Exclusive, supreme Lordship, not one revered figure among Goa’s several temple deities.
Messianic Promise
Konkani name: मसीहाचें वचन
Key terms: messiah, christ, anointed, promised
Review routing: Human theologian
CRITICAL: Messiah is a specific Jewish Old Testament concept fulfilled exclusively in Jesus. Must not be assimilated to Vishnu’s avatar-figures venerated at Goa’s own temples (Mahalasa Narayani at Mardol, among others).
Resurrection of Christ
Konkani name: ख्रिस्ताचें पुनरुत्थान
Key terms: raised, resurrection, from the dead, raised from death
Review routing: Human theologian
CRITICAL: Bodily, once-for-all resurrection. पुनरुत्थान, never पुनर्जन्म. Always distinguish from rebirth within the cycle of samsara in translator notes.
Salvation
Konkani name: तारण
Key terms: salvation, saved, save, deliverance
Review routing: Human theologian
CRITICAL: Never मुक्ती or मोक्ष. Salvation is reconciliation with a personal God through Christ, not release from the rebirth cycle sought through Hindu devotional or ascetic practice.
Sonship of Christ
Konkani name: ख्रिस्ताचें पुत्रपण
Key terms: son of God, his son, God’s son
Review routing: Human theologian
CRITICAL: Eternal, unique Sonship, not metaphorical or adoptive sonship. The Son is eternal, not created or born within time.
High Risk Doctrines
Adoption into God’s Family
Konkani name: देवाच्या कुटुंबांत दत्तक पुत्रपण
Key terms: adoption, spirit of adoption, sons, children of God, abba
Review routing: Human theologian
Full son-status with complete inheritance rights. Guard against any reading that treats adopted children as lower-status compared to natural-born children.
Assurance of Salvation
Konkani name: तारणाची खात्री
Key terms: nothing can separate, who shall separate, no condemnation, more than conquerors
Review routing: Human theologian
Assurance based on God’s unchanging character, not karmic uncertainty about one’s accumulated merit or next rebirth.
Christian Identity in Christ
Konkani name: ख्रिस्तांत ख्रिस्ती वळख
Key terms: in Christ, in Christ Jesus, united with Christ, dead to sin alive to God
Review routing: Human theologian
Identity located in union with Christ, not caste, community (Hindu/Catholic), or accumulated karmic-spiritual status.
Davidic Covenant
Konkani name: दावीदाचो करार
Key terms: seed of David, David, covenant
Review routing: Human theologian
Requires explicit Old Testament background explanation; no analogous royal-lineage covenant concept exists in regional Hindu tradition.
Divine Calling
Konkani name: देवाचें बोलावणें
Key terms: called, calling
Review routing: Human theologian
God’s sovereign call must be distinguished from human religious seeking and from karma/fate-determined destiny (नशीब/प्रारब्ध), both common in Goan Hindu religious idiom.
Effectual Calling
Konkani name: परिणामकारक बोलावणें
Key terms: called, calling, election, chosen
Review routing: Human theologian
God’s sovereign call that ensures the salvation of the called, not karma-determined destiny or impersonal fate.
Faith
Konkani name: विश्वास
Key terms: faith, believe, belief, trust
Review routing: Human theologian
Personal trust in Christ specifically, not generalized devotional reverence (भक्ती) toward any chosen temple deity.
Fulfillment of Prophecy
Konkani name: भविष्यवाणीची पुराय जावप
Key terms: prophecy, promised, foretold, scriptures say
Review routing: Human theologian
Linear historical fulfillment (OT to NT), not the cyclical cosmic pattern of repeated avatar-descent found in Goan temple devotional narrative.
Gospel
Konkani name: सुवार्ता
Key terms: gospel, good news
Review routing: Human theologian
Must be distinguished from ordinary good news. Note for reviewers: Goan Catholic Romi Konkani tradition already has its own settled term, ‘Vangel’; this Devanagari-register curriculum uses सुवार्ता instead and reviewers should not treat the two as interchangeable without checking script/audience.
Grace
Konkani name: कृपा
Key terms: grace, unmerited, gift, given freely
Review routing: Human theologian
Unmerited favor directly contradicts a karma-merit worldview. Must always reinforce ‘apart from human merit’, since कृपा alone can also describe ordinary kindness or favor in everyday Konkani speech.
Humanity of Christ
Konkani name: ख्रिस्ताची मनीसपणा
Key terms: born of the seed of David, flesh, human
Review routing: Human theologian
Real, physical human nature, not a temporary divine appearance as in some Puranic avatar narratives.
Inspiration of Scripture
Konkani name: शास्त्राची प्रेरणा
Key terms: scriptures, holy scriptures, prophets
Review routing: Human theologian
Distinguish God-breathed Scripture from the Puranic literary tradition Goan Hindus and, historically, Konkani Catholics both drew on — notably Thomas Stephens’ 1616 Kristapurana, which deliberately presented the Gospel narrative using Puranic poetic conventions (ovi meter) to reach a Hindu audience. That inculturation precedent is a genuine translation asset, but the doctrine of inspiration itself (God moving human authors to write exactly what he intended) is a distinct claim that must not collapse into a general reverence for devotional poetry.
Obedience of Faith
Konkani name: विश्वासाची आज्ञाधारकता
Key terms: obedience of faith, obedience, faith-produced obedience
Review routing: Human theologian
Obedience flowing from faith, not duty-based religious compliance that earns standing.
Peace with God
Konkani name: देवा वांगडा शांती
Key terms: peace with God, peace, peace through justification
Review routing: Human theologian
Relational covenant peace through justification, not meditative or devotional calm achievable through ritual practice.
Power of God for Salvation
Konkani name: तारणाखातीर देवाचें सामर्थ्य
Key terms: power of God, God’s power
Review routing: Human theologian
सामर्थ्य required; never शक्ती, which carries strong Shakta-goddess associations given Goa’s prominent Shantadurga and Mahalasa worship traditions.
Providence
Konkani name: देवाची तरतूद
Key terms: all things work together, God works, foreknew, predestined, called, justified, glorified
Review routing: Human theologian
God’s personal, purposive care, not impersonal fate or karma-law (नशीब/प्रारब्ध). Romans 8:28 is especially vulnerable to a fatalistic reading.
Sainthood (Called to be Holy)
Konkani name: पवित्र जनांचें बोलावणें
Key terms: saints, holy ones, called to be holy
Review routing: Human theologian
All believers are saints; not an elite category of Varkari-tradition bhakti-poets (संत). Use पवित्र जन.
Sanctification
Konkani name: पवित्रीकरण
Key terms: sanctification, holiness, set apart, holy living
Review routing: Human theologian
The Spirit’s work of making believers holy, not ritual purification or ascetic self-discipline.
Separation unto God’s Service
Konkani name: देवाच्या सेवेखातीर वेगळो केल्लो
Key terms: set apart, separated, holy
Review routing: Human theologian
Must not be confused with world-renunciation (sannyasa) associated with regional Hindu ascetic practice. Biblical separation is devotion to God while remaining fully engaged in ordinary life.
Unity of Jews and Gentiles
Konkani name: यहुदी आनी परराष्ट्रीय यांची एकवट
Key terms: Jew and Gentile, no distinction, one body, olive tree
Review routing: Human theologian
Directly challenges caste-based spiritual hierarchy present in Goan Hindu social structure (including Goud Saraswat Brahmin and other caste groupings) and any lingering Hindu-Catholic communal division. Must translate with theological clarity.
Universal Human Accountability
Konkani name: सार्वत्रीक मनीस जबाबदारी
Key terms: all have sinned, no one is righteous, no distinction, all are accountable
Review routing: Human theologian
All humanity equally guilty before God undermines caste-based spiritual hierarchy. Retain universal language without softening.
Universal Scope of the Gospel
Konkani name: सुवार्तेची सार्वत्रीक व्याप्ती
Key terms: everyone who believes, all who call, no distinction, Jew and Gentile
Review routing: Human theologian
No caste or community barrier to the gospel. Retain unqualified universality, which has particular force in a region historically divided along Hindu/Catholic and caste lines.
Medium Risk Doctrines
Apostleship
Konkani name: प्रेषितपण
Key terms: apostle
Review routing: Native speaker review
Risk: reducing apostleship to a generic guru-disciple religious-authority role, a structure prominent in Goan Hindu devotional practice.
Christ-Centered Ministry
Konkani name: ख्रिस्त-केंद्रीत सेवाकाम
Key terms: what Christ has accomplished through me, in Christ Jesus, minister of Christ
Review routing: Native speaker review
Ministry done in Christ’s name, by his power, for his glory, not humanitarian service divorced from the gospel or generic religious instruction.
Church as God’s People
Konkani name: देवाच्या प्रजे भशेन मंडळी
Key terms: body of Christ, one body, church, saints, assembly
Review routing: Native speaker review
New covenant community, not a ritual institution or a caste-segregated assembly. Note the existing distinct Catholic Konkani institutional term ‘Igorz’ does not carry this same doctrinal-precision function and is not used in this glossary.
Evangelism
Konkani name: सुवार्ता प्रसार
Key terms: preach, proclaim, evangelize, send, how will they hear
Review routing: Native speaker review
Given the historical memory of Inquisition-era coercive conversion, evangelism must be framed as gentle proclamation and witness, never confrontation or pressure — this is a sharper sensitivity in Konkani than the generic caution applied elsewhere in this pipeline.
Kingdom Mission
Konkani name: राज्याचें मिशन
Key terms: kingdom of God, righteousness peace and joy, advance the kingdom
Review routing: Native speaker review
God’s reign advancing through the gospel, not a political or colonial-era kingdom, a sensitive association given Goa’s own contested colonial history.
Mission to the Nations
Konkani name: राष्ट्रांखातीर मिशन
Key terms: nations, gentiles, all peoples, to the ends of the earth
Review routing: Native speaker review
Cultural sensitivity is unusually high here: Goa’s history includes coercive conversion under the Portuguese-era Goa Inquisition (established 1560), including temple destruction. ‘Mission’ language must be framed as invitation and proclamation, never coercion, and this history should inform tone even more than in most other languages in this pipeline.
Prayer and Intercession
Konkani name: प्रार्थना आनी मध्यस्थी
Key terms: prayer, intercession, pray, groan, spirit intercedes
Review routing: Native speaker review
Direct access to God in Christ’s name; distinguish from ritual worship (puja) directed at an image and, for Catholic-background readers, from petitions directed to saints.
Spiritual Gifts
Konkani name: आत्मिक वरदान
Key terms: spiritual gift, gift, grace gift, measure of faith
Review routing: Native speaker review
Spirit-given enablements, not merit-earned boons (वरदान) granted for austerity or devotion.
Low Risk Doctrines
Christian Fellowship
Konkani name: ख्रिस्ती सहभागिता
Key terms: fellowship, share, participate, community
Review routing: Automated review
Shared participation in Christ, not merely social or caste-community association.
Mutual Edification
Konkani name: एकामेकांची वाड
Key terms: build up, edify, encourage one another, strengthen
Review routing: Automated review
Building one another up in faith; no significant doctrinal risk.
Thanksgiving
Konkani name: धन्यवाद
Key terms: thanksgiving, give thanks, grateful, thank God
Review routing: Automated review
Standard term. Minor risk of over-ritualization.
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