Passage

Romans 5

• Doctrine

  Faith

  Shares the region's six-pillars creedal-assent structure; must be anchored as personal trust in Christ specifically.

  ROM.5.1-2

• Glossary Term

  Faith

  Shares the region's Sunni (predominantly Shafi'i madhhab among Kurds, distinct from the Hanafi madhhab common elsewhere in this batch) six-pillars creedal structure.

  ROM.5.1-2

• Doctrine

  Grace

  The Sufi 'keramet' concept reserves extraordinary graces for elevated saints; grace here must be taught as freely given to all believers, not a mark of spiritual rank.

  ROM.5.2, ROM.5.15-17, ROM.5.20-21

• Glossary Term

  Grace

  Kurdistan's rich Sufi heritage (the Naqshbandi revival led by the Kurdish Sheikh Mawlana Khalid) uses the cognate 'keramet' for miracles granted specifically to elevated Sufi saints as marks of spiritual rank.

  ROM.5.2, ROM.5.15-17, ROM.5.20-21

• Doctrine

  Humanity of Christ

  Real, physical human nature, not an illusion.

  ROM.5.15

• Glossary Term

  Peace

  Aştî is the region's standard word for high-profile political peace processes (e.g.

  ROM.5.1

• Doctrine

  Peace with God

  An asset: aştî's resonance with real, hard-won regional peace processes; the specific connection to justification must still be made explicit.

  ROM.5.1