Doctrine Analysis
Doctrine Analysis — Luke 1–24 | English → Marathi
Purpose
This document is the full-book doctrine matrix required by PRD Phase 1 Step 4. It extends, and is fully consistent with, assets/doctrine_risk_registry.json (same 28 doctrines, identical risk tiers, identical marathi_doctrine_name values and review routing) and analysis/08_core_glossary.md. It is also consistent with, and never contradicts, the Romans-curriculum baseline translation_memory.json, bible_term_registry.json, and doctrine_risk_registry.json.
Luke 4:16-21 (Jesus reading Isaiah 61 in the Nazareth synagogue, declaring “today this Scripture has been fulfilled”) is the curriculum’s theological anchor, not its scope boundary. Every chapter of Luke (1–24) has been reviewed for doctrinal load; the matrix below traces every curriculum doctrine across its full range of supporting passages, and the chapter-by-chapter section that follows confirms full-book coverage, explicitly noting chapters whose doctrinal content is reinforcing rather than new.
Risk tiers, definitions, and review routing follow the baseline exactly:
| Tier | Definition | Review Routing |
|---|---|---|
| Critical | Mistranslation alters or destroys essential doctrine | Human theologian (every occurrence) |
| High | Mistranslation creates significant theological confusion or syncretism risk | Human theologian |
| Medium | Mistranslation reduces clarity but preserves essential meaning | Native speaker review |
| Low | Mistranslation causes minor misunderstanding or imprecision | Automated review |
Part 1 — Full Doctrine Matrix
1. Jesus as Savior for All Nations and All People (Jew and Gentile, Rich and Poor)
- Risk: Critical
- Marathi doctrine name: सर्व राष्ट्रांसाठी आणि सर्व लोकांसाठी तारणारा येशू
- Supporting passages: 2:10-14 (angels to shepherds), 2:29-32 (Simeon’s Nunc Dimittis — “light to the Gentiles”), 3:6 (“all flesh shall see the salvation of God”), 4:24-27 (Elijah/Elisha sent to Gentiles), 7:1-10 (Roman centurion’s faith), 10:25-37 (Good Samaritan), 14:12-24 (banquet for poor/crippled/lame/blind), 19:1-10 (Zacchaeus), 23:47 (centurion at the cross), 24:47 (repentance/forgiveness to all nations)
- Translation risk: तारणारा must always be explicitly anchored to परमेश्वर/येशू, never left as a free-floating devotional title — Maharashtra’s devotional landscape already supplies personal-savior figures (Vitthal for Warkari devotees, the Buddha for Navayana Buddhists). The unqualified universal scope (Jew, Gentile, Samaritan, rich, poor, all without distinction) has unusually direct resonance given the living memory of the 1956 Ambedkarite Buddhist conversion; retain full universality without softening.
- Review routing: Human theologian
2. The Holy Spirit’s Work in Salvation History
- Risk: Critical
- Marathi doctrine name: तारण इतिहासातील पवित्र आत्म्याचे कार्य
- Supporting passages: 1:15, 1:35, 1:41, 1:67 (infancy narrative Spirit-fillings), 3:22 (descent at baptism), 4:1, 4:14, 4:18 (wilderness and Nazareth), 10:21, 11:13, 24:49 (promise of power from on high)
- Translation risk: पवित्र आत्मा never परमात्मा or ब्रह्म — this is the personal third Person of the Trinity, actively directing salvation history from Gabriel’s announcement through the Pentecost promise. “Filled with the Holy Spirit” (भरलेला) must not read as a temporary trance/oracular-possession state familiar from folk-religious practice, but abiding empowerment.
- Review routing: Human theologian
3. Good News to the Poor and Marginalized
- Risk: High
- Marathi doctrine name: गरीब आणि उपेक्षितांसाठी शुभवर्तमान
- Supporting passages: 1:48-53 (Magnificat reversal), 4:18-19 (Isaiah 61 citation, core passage), 6:20-25 (Beatitudes/Woes), 7:22, 14:12-24, 16:19-31 (rich man and Lazarus), 18:22 (rich ruler), 19:1-10, 21:1-4 (widow’s mite)
- Translation risk: गरीब must retain its unqualified economic sense in Luke’s Beatitudes (unlike Matthew’s “poor in spirit”) and not be spiritualized or reduced to a social-program reading. मुक्तता (release) never मुक्ती (forbidden Hindu-liberation term). Banquet logic (14:12-24) must retain its “cannot repay” grace-structure, not generic charity.
- Review routing: Human theologian
4. Repentance and Forgiveness of Sins
- Risk: Critical
- Marathi doctrine name: पश्चात्ताप आणि पापांची क्षमा
- Supporting passages: 3:3-14 (John’s baptism of repentance), 5:20-32, 13:1-5, 15:1-32 (lost sheep/coin/son), 17:3-4, 19:1-10, 23:34, 24:47
- Translation risk: पश्चात्ताप must not collapse into mere emotional regret; context must supply decisive behavioral/relational turning, fixed in Luke’s repeated pairing with क्षमा from 3:3 to 24:47. Luke 13:1-5 explicitly rejects proportional-suffering-equals-guilt reasoning — directly sensitive given the caste-Hindu birth-karma doctrine Ambedkarite Buddhist communities explicitly rejected; must never echo that framework.
- Review routing: Human theologian
5. Prayer and Dependence on God
- Risk: High
- Marathi doctrine name: प्रार्थना आणि देवावर अवलंबून राहणे
- Supporting passages: 1:13, 3:21, 5:16, 6:12, 9:18, 9:28-29, 11:1-13 (Lord’s Prayer), 12:22-31, 18:1-14, 22:32, 22:39-46 (Gethsemane)
- Translation risk: प्रार्थना is shared vocabulary across Hindu bhakti puja and Buddhist devotional chanting; every occurrence must be anchored to address made specifically to परमेश्वर as पिता, not a generic devotional posture before a murti or shrine.
- Review routing: Human theologian
6. The Kingdom of God Present and Future
- Risk: High
- Marathi doctrine name: देवाचे राज्य: वर्तमान आणि भविष्यकालीन
- Supporting passages: 4:16-21 and 4:43 (present inauguration), 13:18-21 (mustard seed/leaven), 17:20-37 (kingdom among you; future Son of Man), 19:11 (parable of minas), 21:5-36 (Olivet discourse), 22:16-18 (kingdom banquet)
- Translation risk: आज and पूर्ण झाले आहे must convey linear, one-time, historically anchored inauguration — never cyclical yuga-renewal or open-ended dependent-origination process. तुमच्यामध्ये (17:21) must avoid sounding like Hindu antaryāmī inner-dweller theology or Buddhist inner-awakening. The doctrine must hold “already” (4:21, 17:21) together with “not yet” (ch. 21).
- Review routing: Human theologian
7. The Cost and Joy of Discipleship
- Risk: Critical
- Marathi doctrine name: शिष्यत्वाची किंमत आणि आनंद
- Supporting passages: 5:1-11 (leaving everything), 5:27-33, 9:23-25 (daily cross), 9:57-62 (no looking back), 14:25-33 (counting the cost, comparative “hate”), 18:28-30
- Translation risk: शिष्य collides directly with the pervasive guru-śiṣya and Warkari sant-lineage tradition, where a शिष्य progresses toward the guru’s own attainment; biblical discipleship is total, exclusive, Christ-initiated allegiance. स्वतःला नाकारणे must not assimilate to Eightfold-Path self-cultivation; it is relational reorientation to a personal Lord. द्वेष करणे (14:26) requires a translator note on the Semitic comparative idiom.
- Review routing: Human theologian
8. Jesus’ Compassion and Table Fellowship with Sinners
- Risk: Critical
- Marathi doctrine name: पाप्यांबरोबर येशूची करुणा आणि भोजन-सहभागिता
- Supporting passages: 5:27-32 (calling Levi), 7:36-50 (sinful woman), 15:1-32, 19:1-10 (Zacchaeus)
- Translation risk: पापी must retain the specific first-century social-religious sense of one publicly beyond respectable religious society, preserving the scandal of shared meals. कळवळा (visceral compassion) preferred over करुणा, a Buddhist Brahmavihara-cultivated virtue rather than a personal encounter rooted in a personal God’s character.
- Review routing: Human theologian
9. Messianic Promise
- Risk: Critical
- Marathi doctrine name: मसीहाविषयीचे वचन
- Supporting passages: 1:32-33 (Gabriel to Mary), 2:11, 2:26, 3:15, 4:18-21 (core passage), 9:20 (Peter’s confession), 20:41-44, 22:67, 24:26, 24:46
- Translation risk: Reused Critical baseline term मसीहा — the unique OT-promised deliverer, not a Vaishnav avatar-association nor a self-attained Buddha-like teacher. अभिषिक्त केले (anointed, 4:18) must be distinguished from repeatable Hindu ritual abhisheka; one-time divine commissioning.
- Review routing: Human theologian
10. Incarnation
- Risk: Critical
- Marathi doctrine name: देहधारण
- Supporting passages: 1:26-35 (annunciation), 2:1-20 (nativity), 2:52 (growth in wisdom/stature)
- Translation risk: Reused Critical baseline term देहधारण — NEVER अवतार, especially salient given Vitthal’s Vaishnav associations. Also guard against the Bodhisattva-rebirth false-friend (an image Ambedkar himself invoked); Luke’s nativity presents a one-time, unique incarnation of the eternal Son.
- Review routing: Human theologian
11. Deity of Christ
- Risk: Critical
- Marathi doctrine name: ख्रिस्ताचे ईश्वरत्व
- Supporting passages: 1:35, 4:34-36 (demons confess “Holy One of God”), 5:20-26 (authority to forgive sins), 8:22-25 (calming the storm), 9:28-36 (transfiguration), 20:41-44, 22:70
- Translation risk: Co-equal, undiminished divine nature. Demonic confessions (4:34, 4:41, 8:28) must not be flattened to a beloved personal deity like Vitthal within a devotee’s pantheon, nor to an elevated human teacher, the closest Buddhist category.
- Review routing: Human theologian
12. Sonship of Christ
- Risk: Critical
- Marathi doctrine name: ख्रिस्ताचे पुत्रत्व
- Supporting passages: 1:32-35, 3:22 (baptismal voice), 3:38 (Adam as “son of God”), 4:3-9 (temptation), 9:35 (transfiguration voice), 10:21-22, 22:70
- Translation risk: Eternal, unique Sonship, not an honorary title. Luke 3:38’s analogical application to Adam must be flagged so it does not flatten Christ’s unique, eternal Sonship declared at 1:35, 3:22, 9:35 into a merely creaturely category.
- Review routing: Human theologian
13. Resurrection of Christ
- Risk: Critical
- Marathi doctrine name: ख्रिस्ताचे पुनरुत्थान
- Supporting passages: 9:22, 18:33 (predictions), 20:27-40 (Sadducee debate), 24:1-49 (empty tomb, appearances, Emmaus)
- Translation risk: Reused Critical baseline term पुनरुत्थान, never पुनर्जन्म or पुनर्भव. Must remain terminologically distinct from उठवले (temporary this-life raisings, 7:14-15, 8:54) so readers do not conflate preliminary restorations with the final, bodily resurrection.
- Review routing: Human theologian
14. Lordship of Christ
- Risk: Critical
- Marathi doctrine name: ख्रिस्ताचे प्रभुत्व
- Supporting passages: 1:43, 2:11, 5:8, 6:46 (“why call me Lord, Lord…”), 19:31-38 (triumphal entry), 20:41-44, 24:34
- Translation risk: Reused Critical baseline term प्रभू — exclusive, supreme, presently-reigning Lordship, not one more beloved deity alongside Vitthal in bhakti practice. Luke 6:46 ties confession directly to exclusive obedience.
- Review routing: Human theologian
15. Son of Man Christology
- Risk: Critical
- Marathi doctrine name: मनुष्याच्या पुत्राचे ख्रिस्तशास्त्र
- Supporting passages: 5:24, 6:5, 9:22, 9:26, 9:58, 12:8-40, 17:22-30, 19:10, 21:27-36, 22:69, 24:7
- Translation risk: New for Luke and Critical: मनुष्याचा पुत्र literally reads as merely “a human’s son,” entirely obscuring the Daniel 7:13-14 background of exalted, divinely-authorized dominion. Requires a sustained translator/study note or it risks being read as false modesty rather than paradoxical full-humanity-joined-to-exalted-authority.
- Review routing: Human theologian
16. Fulfillment of Prophecy
- Risk: High
- Marathi doctrine name: भविष्यवाणीची पूर्तता
- Supporting passages: 1:67-79 (Benedictus), 2:25-38 (Simeon, Anna), 3:4-6 (Isaiah citation), 4:16-21 (core passage), 24:25-27, 24:44-47
- Translation risk: Intensified at Luke’s most explicit occurrence (4:21, “today this Scripture has been fulfilled”): linear, one-time historical fulfillment, not cyclical Hindu yuga time nor the Buddhist wheel of dependent-origination in which no single moment carries unrepeatable, final significance.
- Review routing: Human theologian
17. Davidic Covenant
- Risk: High
- Marathi doctrine name: दावीदाचा करार
- Supporting passages: 1:32-33, 1:69, 2:4, 2:11, 18:38-39 (“Jesus, Son of David”), 20:41-44
- Translation risk: Requires OT background explanation; no structural equivalent in Warkari devotional theology or Buddhist teaching. Luke’s genealogy (3:23-38) and repeated Davidic titles anchor Jesus’ messianic identity in specific historical lineage, not generalized holy-figure status.
- Review routing: Human theologian
18. The New Covenant Instituted in Christ’s Blood
- Risk: High
- Marathi doctrine name: ख्रिस्ताच्या रक्तात स्थापित नवीन करार
- Supporting passages: 22:14-20 (Last Supper)
- Translation risk: नवीन करार must be understood as covenant renewal/fulfillment (cf. Jeremiah 31), not replacement or rejection of God’s prior faithfulness to Israel. शरीर/रक्त phrasing flagged for theologian review re: receiving denomination’s sacramental theology (memorial vs. real presence).
- Review routing: Human theologian
19. Unity of Jews, Gentiles, and Samaritans under the Gospel
- Risk: High
- Marathi doctrine name: यहूदी, अन्यजातीय आणि शोमरोनी यांची शुभवर्तमानातील एकता
- Supporting passages: 2:32, 4:24-27, 9:51-56 (Samaritan village rejects Jesus), 10:25-37 (Good Samaritan), 17:11-19 (healed Samaritan leper), 24:47
- Translation risk: Directly challenges caste-based and communal spiritual hierarchy; the Good Samaritan parable and the healed Samaritan leper must be translated with full theological clarity, not softened into a sentimental charity lesson. Redefinition of “neighbor” beyond kin/community lines carries direct application in caste-conscious Maharashtra.
- Review routing: Human theologian
20. Universal Human Accountability
- Risk: High
- Marathi doctrine name: सार्वत्रिक मानवी जबाबदारी
- Supporting passages: 13:1-5 (Galileans and the tower of Siloam), 15:1-32, 18:9-14
- Translation risk: Luke 13:1-5 explicitly rejects proportional-suffering/misfortune-equals-guilt reasoning — of unusually direct sensitivity given the caste-Hindu birth-karma doctrine Ambedkarite Buddhist communities explicitly and painfully rejected by converting. Marathi phrasing must actively distance itself from that framework.
- Review routing: Human theologian
21. Justification by Faith (Pharisee and Tax Collector)
- Risk: Critical
- Marathi doctrine name: विश्वासाद्वारे नीतिमान ठरवणे (परूशी आणि जकातदार)
- Supporting passages: 18:9-14
- Translation risk: This parable narratively dramatizes the Romans baseline’s most tightly guarded doctrine — the self-confessed sinner “went down to his house justified,” not the outwardly religious man. नीतिमान ठरवणे reused exactly; the parable must not be softened to suggest the tax collector’s humility itself earned righteousness — his justification is God’s gracious declaration, received by faith and humble confession alone.
- Review routing: Human theologian
22. Inspiration of Scripture
- Risk: High
- Marathi doctrine name: पवित्रशास्त्राची प्रेरणा
- Supporting passages: 1:70, 4:17-21 (core passage: Isaiah scroll), 24:25-27, 24:44-45 (“opened their minds”)
- Translation risk: Distinguish God-breathed Scripture — which Jesus treats as final and historically fulfilled in himself (4:21) — from Warkari sant-poet abhang devotional poetry and from the Buddhist Tripitaka/Ambedkar’s reinterpreted Dhamma writings, which claim authority as teaching rather than divine revelation. 24:45 must not use generic bodhi/enlightenment-light imagery.
- Review routing: Human theologian
23. Divine Calling of Disciples
- Risk: High
- Marathi doctrine name: शिष्यांचे देवाचे पाचारण
- Supporting passages: 5:1-11 (miraculous catch), 5:27-32 (calling Levi), 6:12-16 (choosing the Twelve), 9:1-6, 10:1-16 (sending the Seventy-Two)
- Translation risk: God’s initiating, sovereign call must be distinguished from devotee-initiated Warkari wari-pilgrimage seeking and from the deliberate, self-chosen “taking of refuge” central to the Navayana Buddhist path; here Christ himself sovereignly initiates and names disciples and apostles.
- Review routing: Human theologian
24. Ascension and Christ’s Ongoing Reign
- Risk: High
- Marathi doctrine name: स्वर्गारोहण आणि ख्रिस्ताचे चालू राज्य
- Supporting passages: 24:50-53
- Translation risk: Christ’s bodily ascension confirms and continues (rather than ends) his resurrected reign as Lord — distinct from parinirvana (a final ending) or a generic moksha-departure concept, both sharing surface narrative shape but entirely different theological content.
- Review routing: Human theologian
25. Grace as Unmerited Favor (Contrasted with Merit)
- Risk: Critical
- Marathi doctrine name: कृपा: अपात्रांवरील अनर्जित अनुग्रह
- Supporting passages: 1:28-30 (Gabriel to Mary), 1:47 (Magnificat), 7:36-50 (sinful woman — guarding against reading “she loved much” as the cause rather than the fruit of forgiveness), 18:9-14
- Translation risk: Reused Critical baseline term कृपा — already names devotional favor in Warkari bhakti; every occurrence must reinforce that this favor is unearned and Christ-specific, not cultivated through devotion or self-effort.
- Review routing: Human theologian
26. Kingdom Mission to All Nations
- Risk: Medium
- Marathi doctrine name: सर्व राष्ट्रांसाठी राज्याचे मिशन
- Supporting passages: 9:1-6 (sending the Twelve), 10:1-16 (sending the Seventy-Two), 24:47
- Translation risk: सुवार्ता प्रसार preferred over मिशन given colonial-era connotations; the sending narratives model Christ’s own ongoing initiative in mission, not a human social-reform movement’s outreach.
- Review routing: Native speaker review
27. Table Fellowship as Kingdom Practice
- Risk: Medium
- Marathi doctrine name: देवाच्या राज्याची भोजन-सहभागितेतील प्रथा
- Supporting passages: 5:29-32, 7:36-50, 14:12-24, 15:1-2, 19:1-10
- Translation risk: Luke repeatedly stages Jesus’ compassion as concrete, shared meals with the socially marginal; a distinct doctrine-in-action from the Compassion doctrine’s emotional content, requiring meal/hospitality vocabulary that carries costly social inclusion, not mere courtesy.
- Review routing: Native speaker review
28. Humanity of Christ
- Risk: High
- Marathi doctrine name: ख्रिस्ताची मानवता
- Supporting passages: 2:52 (growth), 4:1-13 (temptation), 22:44 (Gethsemane agony)
- Translation risk: Reused High baseline doctrine — real, historical human nature, not an illusory appearance and not merely one impermanent configuration of aggregates in a Buddhist sense. 22:44 must preserve genuine human dread and struggle held together with submissive obedience, minimizing neither pole.
- Review routing: Human theologian
Part 2 — Chapter-by-Chapter Coverage (Full-Book Mandate)
Luke 1 — Gabriel’s annunciations to Zechariah and Mary, the Magnificat, John’s birth, the Benedictus. Active doctrines: Incarnation (1:26-35), Sonship of Christ (1:32-35), Holy Spirit’s Work (1:15, 1:35, 1:41, 1:67), Messianic Promise (1:32-33), Davidic Covenant (1:32-33, 1:69), Grace vs. Merit (1:28-30, 1:47), Good News to the Poor (1:48-53, reversal theme), Fulfillment of Prophecy (1:67-79), Prayer and Dependence (1:13).
Luke 2 — Nativity, shepherds, circumcision/presentation, Simeon and Anna, boy Jesus in the temple. Active doctrines: Incarnation (2:1-20, 2:52), Jesus as Savior for All Nations (2:10-14, 2:29-32), Fulfillment of Prophecy (2:25-38), Humanity of Christ (2:52), Davidic Covenant (2:4, 2:11).
Luke 3 — John’s preaching, baptism of Jesus, genealogy. Active doctrines: Repentance and Forgiveness (3:3-14), Jesus as Savior for All Nations (3:6, “all flesh”), Sonship of Christ (3:22, 3:38), Holy Spirit’s Work (3:22), Davidic Covenant (genealogy, 3:23-38), Fulfillment of Prophecy (3:4-6).
Luke 4 — Temptation in the wilderness; Nazareth synagogue reading of Isaiah 61 (core passage, 4:16-21); Capernaum ministry, exorcisms, healings. Active doctrines: Kingdom of God Present and Future (4:16-21, 4:43), Fulfillment of Prophecy (4:16-21), Messianic Promise (4:18-21), Holy Spirit’s Work (4:1, 4:14, 4:18), Humanity of Christ (4:1-13, temptation), Deity of Christ (4:34-36, demonic confession), Good News to the Poor (4:18-19), Inspiration of Scripture (4:17-21). This chapter is the theological anchor of the whole curriculum; every doctrine converging here must receive maximal translation-fidelity attention in Phase 2.
Luke 5 — Calling of the first disciples (miraculous catch), cleansing a leper, healing/forgiving the paralytic, calling Levi and the banquet with tax collectors, fasting question. Active doctrines: Divine Calling of Disciples (5:1-11, 5:27-32), Deity of Christ (5:20-26, authority to forgive sins), Cost and Joy of Discipleship (5:1-11, 5:27-33), Compassion and Table Fellowship (5:27-32), Repentance and Forgiveness (5:20-24).
Luke 6 — Sabbath controversies, choosing the Twelve, Sermon on the Plain (Beatitudes and Woes, love of enemies). Active doctrines: Good News to the Poor and Marginalized (6:20-25), Lordship of Christ (6:46), Jesus’ Compassion (6:36, love of enemies), Divine Calling of Disciples (6:12-16).
Luke 7 — Healing the centurion’s servant, raising the widow’s son at Nain, John the Baptist’s question, the sinful woman’s anointing. Active doctrines: Jesus as Savior for All Nations (7:1-10, centurion), Jesus’ Compassion and Table Fellowship (7:36-50), Grace vs. Merit (7:36-50), Fulfillment of Prophecy / Inspiration of Scripture (7:16, “a great prophet has arisen”). Reinforcing note: 7:14-15 (“raised,” उठवले) is deliberately kept terminologically distinct from Resurrection doctrine per the registry.
Luke 8 — Parable of the sower, calming the storm, the Gerasene demoniac, Jairus’s daughter and the woman with the hemorrhage. Active doctrines: Deity of Christ (8:22-25, calming the storm), Salvation/“saved” in the healing sense (8:36, 8:48, 8:50), Faith (8:25, 8:48). No new Critical/High doctrine introduced beyond those already tracked; reviewed and confirmed as reinforcing.
Luke 9 — Feeding the 5,000, Peter’s confession, first Passion prediction, transfiguration, further Son of Man sayings, cost-of-discipleship sayings. Active doctrines: Son of Man Christology (9:22, 9:26, 9:44, 9:58), Deity of Christ (9:28-36, transfiguration), Sonship of Christ (9:35), Cost and Joy of Discipleship (9:23-25, 9:57-62), Divine Calling of Disciples (9:1-6).
Luke 10 — Sending of the Seventy-Two, the Good Samaritan, Mary and Martha. Active doctrines: Kingdom Mission to All Nations (10:1-16), Unity of Jews, Gentiles, and Samaritans (10:25-37), Prayer and Dependence (10:21-22, Jesus’ own prayer of thanksgiving to the Father).
Luke 11 — The Lord’s Prayer, teaching on persistent prayer, Beelzebul controversy, woes to Pharisees and lawyers. Active doctrines: Prayer and Dependence on God (11:1-13), Kingdom of God (11:20), Holy Spirit’s Work (11:13, the Father gives the Spirit to those who ask).
Luke 12 — Warnings against hypocrisy and fear, the rich fool, anxiety and provision, watchfulness for the Son of Man. Active doctrines: Prayer and Dependence (12:22-31, anxiety), Son of Man Christology (12:8-40), Kingdom of God Present and Future (readiness motif). Good News to the Poor is reinforced negatively through the rich fool (12:13-21).
Luke 13 — Call to repentance (Galileans, tower of Siloam), the barren fig tree, healing on the Sabbath, mustard seed and leaven, the narrow door. Active doctrines: Universal Human Accountability (13:1-5, this chapter’s primary doctrinal load), Repentance and Forgiveness (13:1-5), Kingdom of God Present and Future (13:18-21). This is one of the curriculum’s most politically sensitive chapters given caste-karma resonance and requires theologian review at every occurrence of 13:1-5 material.
Luke 14 — Sabbath healing, teaching on humility at banquets, the parable of the great banquet, cost of discipleship (hating family, carrying the cross, counting the cost). Active doctrines: Good News to the Poor and Marginalized (14:12-24, banquet list), Cost and Joy of Discipleship (14:25-33, the comparative “hate” of 14:26).
Luke 15 — Lost sheep, lost coin, prodigal son. Active doctrines: Repentance and Forgiveness of Sins (this chapter’s primary doctrinal center), Grace vs. Merit (the father’s unearned welcome), Jesus’ Compassion and Table Fellowship (15:1-2, the Pharisees’ complaint that frames the whole chapter).
Luke 16 — The unjust steward, teaching on money and the Law, the rich man and Lazarus. Active doctrines: Good News to the Poor and Marginalized (16:19-31, rich/poor reversal), Fulfillment of Prophecy (16:16-17, Law and Prophets). No new Critical doctrine; reviewed and confirmed as reinforcing existing High-risk terms (गरीब, श्रीमंत, नियमशास्त्र).
Luke 17 — Teaching on forgiveness and faith, healing of the ten lepers (the Samaritan who returns), the coming of the kingdom and the Son of Man. Active doctrines: Repentance and Forgiveness (17:3-4), Unity of Jews, Gentiles, and Samaritans (17:11-19), Kingdom of God Present and Future (17:20-21, “kingdom among you” — genuinely ambiguous Greek requiring theologian review), Son of Man Christology (17:22-30).
Luke 18 — The persistent widow, the Pharisee and the tax collector, the rich ruler, healing the blind beggar near Jericho. Active doctrines: Justification by Faith (18:9-14, this chapter’s doctrinal center and one of the curriculum’s most sensitive single passages), Prayer and Dependence (18:1-8), Cost and Joy of Discipleship (18:28-30), Salvation/“saved” (18:42).
Luke 19 — Zacchaeus, the parable of the minas, the triumphal entry, weeping over Jerusalem, cleansing the temple. Active doctrines: Jesus as Savior for All Nations (19:1-10, Zacchaeus), Repentance and Forgiveness / Salvation (19:9-10, “seek and save the lost” — this book’s mission-defining verse), Lordship of Christ (19:31-38, triumphal entry), Kingdom of God Present and Future (19:11, parable of the minas).
Luke 20 — Authority of Jesus questioned, parable of the wicked tenants, questions on taxes, resurrection debate with the Sadducees, David’s son and Lord. Active doctrines: Resurrection of Christ (20:27-40, debate establishing the doctrine’s terms before the event itself), Davidic Covenant / Lordship of Christ (20:41-44), Deity of Christ (implicit throughout the authority controversies).
Luke 21 — The Olivet discourse: signs of the end, the widow’s mite, warnings of persecution, the coming of the Son of Man, the call to watchfulness and endurance. Active doctrines: Kingdom of God Present and Future (21:5-36, the “not yet” pole balancing 4:21’s “already”), Son of Man Christology (21:27-36).
Luke 22 — The Last Supper and institution of the new covenant, Gethsemane, betrayal, arrest, Peter’s denial, the Sanhedrin trial. Active doctrines: The New Covenant Instituted in Christ’s Blood (22:14-20, this chapter’s doctrinal center), Prayer and Dependence (22:39-46, Gethsemane), Humanity of Christ (22:44, agony), Son of Man Christology (22:22, 22:48, 22:69), Sonship of Christ (22:70).
Luke 23 — Trials before Pilate and Herod, crucifixion, the two thieves, Jesus’ death, burial. Active doctrines: Jesus as Savior for All Nations (23:47, the centurion’s confession), Repentance and Forgiveness (23:34, “Father, forgive them”), Salvation (23:43, the promise of Paradise to the repentant thief — a direct narrative instance of Grace vs. Merit and of Repentance/Forgiveness converging).
Luke 24 — Empty tomb, road to Emmaus, appearance to the disciples, opening of minds to understand Scripture, the Great Commission, the ascension. Active doctrines: Resurrection of Christ (24:1-49, this book’s doctrinal capstone), Fulfillment of Prophecy (24:25-27, 24:44-47), Inspiration of Scripture (24:45, “opened their minds”), Repentance and Forgiveness of Sins to All Nations (24:47, matching 3:3 exactly), Kingdom Mission to All Nations (24:47), Ascension and Christ’s Ongoing Reign (24:50-53).
All 24 chapters have been reviewed. No chapter is silently omitted; chapters 8 and 16 in particular are noted explicitly above as doctrinally reinforcing rather than introducing new Critical/High material, consistent with the PRD’s full-book coverage mandate.
Part 3 — Risk Summary
| Risk Tier | Doctrine Count | Review Routing |
|---|---|---|
| Critical | 14 | Human theologian (mandatory, every occurrence) |
| High | 12 | Human theologian |
| Medium | 2 | Native speaker review |
| Low | 0 | Automated review |
| Total | 28 | — |
- Total requiring human theologian review (Critical + High): 26
- Total requiring native speaker review (Medium): 2
- Total automated-only (Low): 0
This matrix is fully consistent with assets/doctrine_risk_registry.json: identical 28 doctrines, identical marathi_doctrine_name values, identical per-doctrine risk tiers, and identical review routing. It supplies the chapter-by-chapter full-book coverage trace and expanded translation-risk rationale required for Phase 1 Step 4, without renegotiating any tier or term already fixed by the Romans-curriculum baseline or by the Luke 08_core_glossary.md.
See 08_core_glossary.md for the term-level glossary and assets/doctrine_risk_registry.json for the machine-readable doctrine registry consumed by Phase 2 Step 17 review routing.
Critical Risk Doctrines
Jesus as Savior for All Nations and All People (Jew and Gentile, Rich and Poor)
Marathi name: सर्व राष्ट्रांसाठी आणि सर्व लोकांसाठी तारणारा येशू
Key terms: savior, gentiles, poor, rich, neighbor, samaritan, centurion
Review routing: Human theologian
तारणारा must always be anchored explicitly to परमेश्वर/येशू, never left as a free-floating devotional title, since Maharashtra’s devotional landscape includes multiple figures popularly experienced as personal saviors (Vitthal for the Warkari devotee, the Buddha for the Navayana Buddhist practitioner). The universal scope claim (Jew and Gentile, Samaritan, rich and poor, all included without distinction) has unusually direct resonance in Maharashtra, where mass conversion to escape caste hierarchy (the 1956 Ambedkarite Buddhist conversion) is recent living memory; retain unqualified universality without softening.
The Holy Spirit’s Work in Salvation History
Marathi name: तारण इतिहासातील पवित्र आत्म्याचे कार्य
Key terms: holy_spirit, filled_with_holy_spirit, angel, power_of_god
Review routing: Human theologian
पवित्र आत्मा must never be rendered परमात्मा (Hindu Universal Self) or ब्रह्म (Brahman); this is the personal, third Person of the Trinity, actively directing salvation history from Gabriel’s announcement through Pentecost’s promise (24:49). The idiom ‘filled with the Holy Spirit’ (भरलेला) must not be rendered so as to suggest a temporary trance/oracular-possession state familiar from folk-religious practice, but an abiding empowering presence consistent with the baseline’s Critical caution on this term.
Repentance and Forgiveness of Sins
Marathi name: पश्चात्ताप आणि पापांची क्षमा
Key terms: repentance, forgiveness_of_sins, fruits_of_repentance, sin, lost, authority_to_forgive_sins, seek_and_save_the_lost, repentance_forgiveness_all_nations
Review routing: Human theologian
पश्चात्ताप (repentance) etymologically leans toward emotional regret; context must always supply the fuller sense of decisive behavioral and relational turning toward God, especially since Luke ties it structurally to क्षमा (forgiveness) as a fixed pair repeated verbatim from 3:3 to 24:47. Luke 13:1-5 explicitly rejects a proportional-suffering/misfortune-equals-guilt framework — of direct sensitivity given the caste-Hindu birth-karma doctrine that Ambedkarite Buddhist communities in Maharashtra explicitly and painfully rejected by converting; the Marathi phrasing must never echo that rejected framework.
The Cost and Joy of Discipleship
Marathi name: शिष्यत्वाची किंमत आणि आनंद
Key terms: disciple, cross, deny_himself, hate_comparative, joy
Review routing: Human theologian
शिष्य collides directly with the pervasive Hindu guru-śiṣya tradition and Warkari sant-lineages, where a शिष्य progresses toward the guru’s own attainment through instruction and eventually may equal or transmit the guru’s role; biblical discipleship is total, exclusive allegiance to Christ as living Lord, initiated by Christ’s sovereign call rather than the disciple’s own search for a teacher. स्वतःला नाकारणे (deny himself, 9:23) risks assimilation to the Eightfold Path’s self-cultivated relinquishing of ego; it must instead be taught as a relational reorientation toward a personal Lord, not a technique of self-effacement. द्वेष करणे (14:26) requires a translator note clarifying the Semitic idiom of comparative preference, not literal animosity toward family.
Jesus’ Compassion and Table Fellowship with Sinners
Marathi name: पाप्यांबरोबर येशूची करुणा आणि भोजन-सहभागिता
Key terms: sinner, tax_collector, compassion_visceral, mercy, merciful_character, fellowship
Review routing: Human theologian
पापी must retain the specific first-century social-religious sense of one publicly recognized as beyond respectable religious society, so the scandal of Jesus eating with them is not lost. कळवळा (visceral compassion) is preferred over करुणा, which in Marathi Buddhist usage names a specific meditative Brahmavihara virtue cultivated through discipline rather than a personal encounter rooted in a personal God’s character; Jesus’ compassion in Luke is always occasioned by a specific encounter with a specific sufferer, not an abstract cultivated disposition.
Messianic Promise
Marathi name: मसीहाविषयीचे वचन
Key terms: messiah, anointed, son_of_david, davidic_covenant
Review routing: Human theologian
CRITICAL, reused from the Romans baseline: the Messiah is the unique OT-promised deliverer, not one of Vitthal’s Vaishnav avatar-associations, and not a Buddha-like enlightened teacher who attained realization through his own effort. अभिषिक्त केले (anointed, 4:18) must be distinguished from the Hindu ritual abhisheka (repeatable devotional libation on a deity’s image); this is a one-time divine commissioning.
Incarnation
Marathi name: देहधारण
Key terms: incarnation, son_of_god, holy_spirit
Review routing: Human theologian
CRITICAL, reused from the Romans baseline: NEVER अवतार, especially salient given Vitthal’s Vaishnav associations at the heart of Warkari devotion. Also guard against the Bodhisattva-rebirth false-friend (an image Ambedkar himself invoked) which a Navayana Buddhist reader may substitute for the church’s one-time, unique incarnation of the eternal Son in Luke’s nativity narrative.
Deity of Christ
Marathi name: ख्रिस्ताचे ईश्वरत्व
Key terms: son_of_god, glory, transfigured, authority_to_forgive_sins, power_of_god
Review routing: Human theologian
CRITICAL: co-equal, undiminished divine nature. Luke’s demons themselves confess Jesus as ‘the Holy One of God’ (4:34) and ‘Son of God’ (4:41, 8:28) — this recognition must not be flattened to a beloved, humbly-postured personal deity like Vitthal within a devotee’s chosen pantheon, nor to an enlightened human teacher elevated in memory, the closest available Buddhist category.
Sonship of Christ
Marathi name: ख्रिस्ताचे पुत्रत्व
Key terms: son_of_god, father
Review routing: Human theologian
CRITICAL: eternal, unique Sonship, not a title of honor bestowed on an especially devoted figure. Luke 3:38 applies ‘son of God’ to Adam by creation; this analogical use must be carefully flagged so it does not flatten Christ’s unique, eternal Sonship declared at 1:35, 3:22, and 9:35 into a merely creaturely category.
Resurrection of Christ
Marathi name: ख्रिस्ताचे पुनरुत्थान
Key terms: resurrection, raised_temporal
Review routing: Human theologian
CRITICAL, reused from the Romans baseline: पुनरुत्थान, never पुनर्जन्म or पुनर्भव. Must be kept terminologically distinct from उठवले, used for the temporary this-life raisings of the widow’s son (7:14-15) and Jairus’s daughter (8:54), so readers do not conflate those preliminary restorations with the unique, final, bodily resurrection proclaimed at 24:1-49.
Lordship of Christ
Marathi name: ख्रिस्ताचे प्रभुत्व
Key terms: lord
Review routing: Human theologian
CRITICAL, reused from the Romans baseline: प्रभू must convey exclusive, supreme, presently-reigning Lordship, not one more beloved personal deity alongside Vitthal within a devotee’s bhakti practice. Luke 6:46 (‘why do you call me Lord, Lord, and not do what I say’) ties the confession directly to exclusive obedience.
Son of Man Christology
Marathi name: मनुष्याच्या पुत्राचे ख्रिस्तशास्त्र
Key terms: son_of_man
Review routing: Human theologian
CRITICAL, new for Luke: मनुष्याचा पुत्र literally reads as merely ‘a human’s son’ in Marathi, entirely obscuring the Daniel 7:13-14 background of an exalted, divinely-authorized figure receiving everlasting dominion. Without a sustained translator/study note supplying this background, the title risks being read as false modesty (‘I, a mere human’) rather than the deliberately paradoxical claim of full humanity joined to exalted divine authority to judge and reign.
Justification by Faith (Pharisee and Tax Collector)
Marathi name: विश्वासाद्वारे नीतिमान ठरवणे (परूशी आणि जकातदार)
Key terms: justification, sinner, tax_collector, righteousness
Review routing: Human theologian
CRITICAL: this parable narratively dramatizes the Romans baseline’s most tightly guarded doctrine — the socially despised, self-confessed sinner ‘went down to his house justified,’ not the outwardly religious, self-righteous man. नीतिमान ठरवणे must be reused exactly; the parable must not be softened to suggest the tax collector’s humility itself earned righteousness (a merit-based misreading), since the text presents his justification as God’s gracious declaration, received by faith and humble confession alone.
Grace as Unmerited Favor (Contrasted with Merit)
Marathi name: कृपा: अपात्रांवरील अनर्जित अनुग्रह
Key terms: grace, savior, justification
Review routing: Human theologian
CRITICAL, reused from the Romans baseline: कृपा already names devotional favor in Warkari bhakti (Vitthal’s कृपा on a devotee); every Luke occurrence, especially the sinful woman’s forgiveness preceding her love (7:36-50, guarding against a merit-based misreading where ‘she loved much’ is taken as the cause rather than the fruit of forgiveness), must reinforce that this favor is unearned and Christ-specific.
High Risk Doctrines
Good News to the Poor and Marginalized
Marathi name: गरीब आणि उपेक्षितांसाठी शुभवर्तमान
Key terms: poor, captives_release, sight_to_blind, oppressed, humble_estate, tax_collector, poor_crippled_lame_blind, blessed
Review routing: Human theologian
गरीब (poor) must retain its unqualified economic sense in Luke’s Beatitudes (6:20, unlike Matthew’s ‘poor in spirit’) and must not be reduced to a purely spiritual or purely social-program reading. मुक्तता (release for captives) must never be rendered मुक्ती, which the Romans baseline explicitly forbids due to Warkari-Hindu liberation associations. The banquet-invitation logic (14:12-24) must retain its ‘cannot repay’ grace-structure, not merely generic charitable inclusion.
Prayer and Dependence on God
Marathi name: प्रार्थना आणि देवावर अवलंबून राहणे
Key terms: prayer, father, abba, daily_bread, anxiety, agony, intercession
Review routing: Human theologian
प्रार्थना is the standard, broadly shared Marathi word for prayer/worship across Hindu bhakti puja practice and Buddhist devotional chanting alike; every occurrence must be anchored to address made specifically to परमेश्वर as पिता (Father), not left as a generic devotional posture that could equally describe puja before a murti or meditative chanting before a shrine. The Lord’s Prayer (11:1-4) and Gethsemane (22:39-46) both model filial, dependent address requiring this anchoring most explicitly.
The Kingdom of God Present and Future
Marathi name: देवाचे राज्य: वर्तमान आणि भविष्यकालीन
Key terms: kingdom_of_god, today, fulfilled, acceptable_year_of_the_lord, kingdom_within_among_you, redemption, eternal_life, endurance
Review routing: Human theologian
आज (today, 4:21) and पूर्ण झाले आहे (fulfilled) must convey a linear, one-time, historically anchored inauguration of the kingdom, never a repeatable cyclical renewal (Hindu yuga-cycle) or an ongoing process without a definite historical anchor (Buddhist dependent-origination). तुमच्यामध्ये (17:21, kingdom ‘among you’) must avoid sounding like an inward spiritual-attainment claim resembling Hindu antaryāmī (inner-dweller) theology or Buddhist inner-awakening concepts. The whole doctrine must hold together the ‘already’ of 4:21/17:21 with the ‘not yet’ of ch. 21’s future Son of Man coming.
Fulfillment of Prophecy
Marathi name: भविष्यवाणीची पूर्तता
Key terms: fulfilled, prophet, prophecy, consolation_of_israel
Review routing: Human theologian
Reused and intensified from the Romans baseline at Luke’s most explicit occurrence (4:21, ‘today this Scripture has been fulfilled’): linear, one-time historical fulfillment; not the cyclical cosmic time of Hindu yuga cycles, nor the Buddhist wheel of dependent-origination (pratityasamutpada) in which no single historical moment carries unrepeatable, final significance.
Davidic Covenant
Marathi name: दावीदाचा करार
Key terms: david, covenant, messiah
Review routing: Human theologian
Reused from the Romans baseline; requires OT background explanation, since no structural equivalent exists in either Warkari devotional theology or Buddhist teaching. Luke’s genealogy (3:23-38) and repeated Davidic titles (18:38-39, ‘Jesus, Son of David’) anchor Jesus’ messianic identity in this specific historical lineage, not a generalized holy-figure status.
The New Covenant Instituted in Christ’s Blood
Marathi name: ख्रिस्ताच्या रक्तात स्थापित नवीन करार
Key terms: new_covenant, body_blood, covenant
Review routing: Human theologian
नवीन करार must be understood as covenant renewal and fulfillment (cf. Jeremiah 31), not the replacement or rejection of God’s prior faithfulness to Israel — consistent with the baseline’s caution on unity_of_jews_and_gentiles. Sacramental phrasing around शरीर/रक्त should be flagged for theologian review regarding the receiving denomination’s specific theology of the ordinance (memorial vs. real presence).
Unity of Jews, Gentiles, and Samaritans under the Gospel
Marathi name: यहूदी, अन्यजातीय आणि शोमरोनी यांची शुभवर्तमानातील एकता
Key terms: gentiles, samaritan, neighbor
Review routing: Human theologian
Directly challenges caste-based and communal spiritual hierarchy; the Good Samaritan parable (10:25-37) and the healed Samaritan leper (17:11-19) must be translated with full theological clarity, not softened. The redefinition of ‘neighbor’ beyond kin/community lines carries unusually direct application in a caste-conscious Maharashtra context and must not be flattened into a merely sentimental charity lesson.
Universal Human Accountability
Marathi name: सार्वत्रिक मानवी जबाबदारी
Key terms: sin, repentance, lost
Review routing: Human theologian
Luke 13:1-5 explicitly and directly rejects reading a person’s suffering or death as proportional punishment for greater personal sin — a claim of unusually direct sensitivity given the caste-Hindu doctrine that low social birth or misfortune reflects past-life sin/karma, a doctrine Ambedkarite Buddhist communities in Maharashtra explicitly and painfully rejected. Marathi phrasing here must actively distance itself from, never echo, that rejected birth-karma framework.
Inspiration of Scripture
Marathi name: पवित्रशास्त्राची प्रेरणा
Key terms: prophet, prophecy, word_of_god, opened_their_minds
Review routing: Human theologian
Distinguish God-breathed Scripture, which Jesus treats as final and now historically fulfilled in himself (4:21), from the devotional poetry (abhang) of the Warkari sant-poets and from the Buddhist Tripitaka/Ambedkar’s reinterpreted Dhamma writings, which claim authority as teaching rather than divine revelation. Luke 24:45 (‘he opened their minds to understand the Scriptures’) must not be rendered with generic enlightenment/bodhi-light imagery; it names Christ personally granting Scripture-understanding as a gift.
Divine Calling of Disciples
Marathi name: शिष्यांचे देवाचे पाचारण
Key terms: called, calling, election, disciple, apostle
Review routing: Human theologian
God’s initiating, sovereign call to discipleship (5:1-11, ‘they left everything and followed him’) must be distinguished from the devotee-initiated seeking of Warkari bhakti (undertaking the wari pilgrimage to Pandharpur by one’s own devotion) and from the deliberate, self-chosen ‘taking of refuge’ central to the Navayana Buddhist path; here Christ himself sovereignly initiates and names his disciples and apostles.
Ascension and Christ’s Ongoing Reign
Marathi name: स्वर्गारोहण आणि ख्रिस्ताचे चालू राज्य
Key terms: ascended, lord, power_of_god
Review routing: Human theologian
Christ’s bodily ascension confirms and continues (rather than ends) his resurrected reign as Lord. Must be distinguished from parinirvana (the Buddhist final passing beyond all rebirth at physical death, an ending) or a generic moksha-departure concept, both of which share a surface narrative shape (a final, bodily ‘departure’) with the ascension but carry entirely different theological content.
Humanity of Christ
Marathi name: ख्रिस्ताची मानवता
Key terms: tempted, agony, son_of_man
Review routing: Human theologian
Reused from the Romans baseline: real, historical human nature; not an illusory appearance and not merely one impermanent configuration of aggregates in a Buddhist sense. Gethsemane’s agony (22:44) must be rendered so as to preserve genuine human dread and struggle held together with submissive obedience, without minimizing either pole.
Medium Risk Doctrines
Kingdom Mission to All Nations
Marathi name: सर्व राष्ट्रांसाठी राज्याचे मिशन
Key terms: mission, gentiles, kingdom_of_god
Review routing: Native speaker review
सुवार्ता प्रसार preferred over मिशन in most contexts due to colonial-era connotations; the sending of the Twelve and the Seventy-Two models Christ’s own ongoing initiative in mission, not a human social-reform movement’s outreach program.
Table Fellowship as Kingdom Practice
Marathi name: देवाच्या राज्याची भोजन-सहभागितेतील प्रथा
Key terms: fellowship, tax_collector, sinner, poor_crippled_lame_blind
Review routing: Native speaker review
Luke repeatedly stages Jesus’ compassion as concrete, shared meals with the socially marginal; this table practice is a distinct doctrine-in-action from the Compassion doctrine’s emotional content, meriting native-speaker attention to ensure meal/hospitality vocabulary carries the sense of costly social inclusion, not mere courtesy.
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