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
All seven Critical-risk doctrines share one property distinctive to Marathi: each has a ready-made, fluent-sounding word or image drawn from Warkari-Hindu bhakti devotion AND a separate, equally fluent-sounding word or image drawn from Navayana Buddhist teaching. This dual pattern reflects Maharashtra’s actual religious landscape, where these two systems coexist as live, present-day identities rather than one dominant tradition with occasional minority variation (see Comparative Theology).
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 Marathi is fluent without catching that it imports a contradictory theological framework from either tradition — or, in the case of universal human accountability, providence, and election, without catching that it inadvertently echoes the caste-karma birth-status framework that Ambedkarite Buddhist communities specifically rejected. Native speaker review is sufficient for Medium-risk doctrines, where the concern is cultural fit and sensitivity rather than doctrinal contradiction.
Critical Risk Doctrines
Deity of Christ
Marathi name: ख्रिस्ताचे ईश्वरत्व
Key terms: son of God, declared son, God over all
Review routing: Human theologian
CRITICAL: co-equal, undiminished divine nature — not a beloved, humbly-postured personal deity like Vitthal within a devotee’s chosen pantheon, and not an enlightened human teacher elevated in memory, the closest available Buddhist category.
Incarnation
Marathi name: देहधारण
Key terms: flesh, seed of David, son born, came in flesh
Review routing: Human theologian
CRITICAL: NEVER अवतार, especially salient given Vitthal’s Vaishnav associations at the heart of Warkari devotion. Also guard against the subtler false-friend of the Bodhisattva ideal — repeatedly postponing one’s own liberation to be reborn for others’ sake, an image Ambedkar himself invoked — which a Navayana Buddhist reader may substitute for the church’s one-time, unique incarnation of the eternal Son.
Lordship of Christ
Marathi name: ख्रिस्ताचे प्रभुत्व
Key terms: lord, lord jesus, jesus is lord
Review routing: Human theologian
CRITICAL: Romans 10:9’s confession is of a living, presently reigning, exclusive Lord — not one more beloved personal deity alongside Vitthal within a devotee’s bhakti practice.
Messianic Promise
Marathi name: मसीहाविषयीचे वचन
Key terms: messiah, christ, anointed, promised
Review routing: Human theologian
CRITICAL: 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.
Resurrection of Christ
Marathi name: ख्रिस्ताचे पुनरुत्थान
Key terms: raised, resurrection, from the dead, raised from death
Review routing: Human theologian
CRITICAL: bodily, historical, once-for-all. पुनरुत्थान, never पुनर्जन्म or the Buddhist technical पुनर्भव (the arising of a new configuration of aggregates, explicitly not the survival of a continuous self). Resurrection affirms the same Jesus who died was raised bodily — a positive claim that needs building up for readers formed by Buddhist anatta (no-self) teaching, not just a corrected word.
Salvation
Marathi name: तारण
Key terms: salvation, saved, save, deliverance
Review routing: Human theologian
CRITICAL: never मोक्ष/मुक्ती (Warkari-Hindu liberation through bhakti) or निर्वाण (the Buddhist extinguishing of craving, an impersonal cessation of suffering rather than reconciliation with a personal God). तारण is deliverance given by God through Christ to a person, not a state a practitioner attains.
Sonship of Christ
Marathi name: ख्रिस्ताचे पुत्रत्व
Key terms: son of God, his son, God’s son
Review routing: Human theologian
CRITICAL: eternal, unique Sonship; not a title of honor bestowed on an especially devoted or enlightened figure.
High Risk Doctrines
Adoption into God’s Family
Marathi name: देवाच्या कुटुंबात दत्तक पुत्रत्व
Key terms: adoption, spirit of adoption, sons, children of God, abba
Review routing: Human theologian
Full son-status with complete inheritance rights. Note the conceptual hurdle posed by Buddhist anatta (no permanent self) teaching: this curriculum should present adoption as God’s relational declaration over the whole person, not a claim resting on a particular prior metaphysics of the soul.
Assurance of Salvation
Marathi name: तारणाची खात्री
Key terms: nothing can separate, who shall separate, no condemnation, more than conquerors
Review routing: Human theologian
Assurance rests in God’s unchanging character, not a karmic ledger. Also distinct from the Buddhist framework, where the very notion of a continuous ‘someone’ who could hold assurance across time is philosophically contested under anatta teaching; this doctrine should be taught relationally rather than resting on a particular metaphysics of selfhood.
Christian Identity in Christ
Marathi name: ख्रिस्तातील ख्रिस्ती ओळख
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, or the social-reform identity built around any single movement, however dignifying that movement has been for its members.
Davidic Covenant
Marathi name: दावीदाचा करार
Key terms: seed of David, David, covenant
Review routing: Human theologian
Requires OT background explanation; no structural equivalent exists in either Warkari devotional theology or Buddhist teaching.
Divine Calling
Marathi name: देवाचे पाचारण
Key terms: called, calling
Review routing: Human theologian
God’s initiating, sovereign call 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’ (conversion vow) central to the Navayana Buddhist path.
Effectual Calling
Marathi name: परिणामकारक पाचारण
Key terms: called, calling, election, chosen
Review routing: Human theologian
God’s sovereign call that ensures the salvation of the one called; must not be phrased so as to echo the karma-birth explanation of social standing that Ambedkarite Buddhist communities specifically and painfully rejected.
Faith
Marathi name: विश्वास
Key terms: faith, believe, belief, trust
Review routing: Human theologian
Personal trust in Christ specifically; not the devotional reverence (bhakti/shraddha) a Warkari devotee directs toward Vitthal, nor confidence placed in a teaching or path as in Buddhist practice.
Fulfillment of Prophecy
Marathi name: भविष्यवाणीची पूर्तता
Key terms: prophecy, promised, foretold, scriptures say
Review routing: Human theologian
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.
Gospel
Marathi name: शुभवर्तमान
Key terms: gospel, good news
Review routing: Human theologian
शुभवर्तमान must be distinguished from any general positive announcement. In a state shaped by both Warkari bhakti’s own devotional ‘good news’ of Vitthal’s grace and Navayana Buddhism’s proclamation of liberation through the Buddha’s teaching, this gospel names one specific historical announcement: salvation through the crucified and risen Christ.
Grace
Marathi name: कृपा
Key terms: grace, unmerited, gift, given freely
Review routing: Human theologian
Warkari bhakti already has a devotional grace vocabulary (Vitthal’s कृपा on the devotee), which makes this term feel too familiar; every occurrence must reinforce that grace is unearned and Christ-specific. For Navayana Buddhist readers, whose ethical framework is entirely self-cultivation along the Eightfold Path, the concept of an externally given, unearned gift needs to be built from the ground up.
Humanity of Christ
Marathi name: ख्रिस्ताची मानवता
Key terms: born of the seed of David, flesh, human
Review routing: Human theologian
Real, historical human nature; not an illusory appearance and not merely one impermanent configuration of aggregates in a Buddhist sense.
Inspiration of Scripture
Marathi name: पवित्रशास्त्राची प्रेरणा
Key terms: scriptures, holy scriptures, prophets
Review routing: Human theologian
Distinguish God-breathed Scripture from both the devotional poetry (abhang) of the Warkari sant-poets, treasured as inspired wisdom but not claiming the status of God’s own spoken word, and from the Buddhist Tripitaka/Ambedkar’s own reinterpreted ‘Dhamma’ writings, which claim authority as teaching rather than as divine revelation.
Obedience of Faith
Marathi name: विश्वासाचे आज्ञापालन
Key terms: obedience of faith, obedience, faith-produced obedience
Review routing: Human theologian
Obedience flowing from faith already granted, not धार्मिक कर्तव्य-style compliance that earns standing, and not the disciplined self-effort of the Buddhist path.
Peace with God
Marathi name: देवाबरोबर शांती
Key terms: peace with God, peace, peace through justification
Review routing: Human theologian
Relational peace through justification, not the inner tranquility sought through bhakti devotion or Buddhist mindfulness/meditation practice.
Power of God for Salvation
Marathi name: तारणासाठी देवाचे सामर्थ्य
Key terms: power of God, God’s power
Review routing: Human theologian
सामर्थ्य required; never शक्ती, which in Maharashtra’s Shakti/mother-goddess tradition (Tuljapur’s Tuljabhavani) names a distinct divine-feminine power.
Providence
Marathi name: देवाचे विधान
Key terms: all things work together, God works, foreknew, predestined, called, justified, glorified
Review routing: Human theologian
God’s personal, purposive governance. Romans 8:28 is politically sensitive: it must not be rendered so as to echo the karma-based explanation of misfortune or low social status that Ambedkarite Buddhist communities specifically rejected by converting away from caste Hinduism.
Sainthood (Called to be Holy)
Marathi name: पवित्र जन होण्याचे पाचारण
Key terms: saints, holy ones, called to be holy
Review routing: Human theologian
All believers are पवित्र जन; not an elite spiritual-literary class. संत specifically names the revered Warkari poet-saints (Dnyaneshwar, Tukaram, Namdev, Eknath, Chokhamela) and must not be used for ordinary believers.
Sanctification
Marathi name: पवित्रीकरण
Key terms: sanctification, holiness, set apart, holy living
Review routing: Human theologian
The Spirit’s ongoing work of making believers holy; not ritual purification, and not the self-directed ethical cultivation of the Buddhist Eightfold Path, however much the outward behavior may overlap.
Separation unto God’s Service
Marathi name: देवाच्या सेवेसाठी वेगळे केलेले
Key terms: set apart, separated, holy
Review routing: Human theologian
Must not be confused with Hindu sannyasa (world-renunciation) or with Buddhist monastic ordination; biblical separation is devotion to God while remaining fully engaged in daily life and community, which is in fact closer to the Warkari lay-devotional ideal than to renunciate asceticism.
Unity of Jews and Gentiles
Marathi name: यहूदी आणि अन्यजातीय यांची एकता
Key terms: Jew and Gentile, no distinction, one body, olive tree
Review routing: Human theologian
Directly challenges caste-based spiritual hierarchy; must be translated with full theological clarity, not softened.
Universal Human Accountability
Marathi name: सार्वत्रिक मानवी जबाबदारी
Key terms: all have sinned, no one is righteous, no distinction, all are accountable
Review routing: Human theologian
All humanity equally guilty and equally invited, regardless of caste. Must be phrased so it clearly does not echo the caste-Hindu doctrine that low birth reflects past-life sin/karma, a doctrine Ambedkarite communities explicitly and rightly rejected — Romans’ universal accountability is the opposite claim: everyone, of every status, stands equally guilty and equally invited.
Universal Scope of the Gospel
Marathi name: शुभवर्तमानाची सार्वत्रिकता
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 — a claim with unusually direct resonance in Maharashtra, where mass conversion to escape caste hierarchy (the 1956 Ambedkarite Buddhist conversion) is recent living memory; retain the unqualified universality without softening.
Medium Risk Doctrines
Apostleship
Marathi name: प्रेषितपण
Key terms: apostle
Review routing: Native speaker review
Risk of apostleship collapsing into a generic guru or social-reform-movement leader role rather than a commissioned, sent office with delegated authority from Christ.
Christ-Centered Ministry
Marathi name: ख्रिस्तकेंद्रित सेवाकार्य
Key terms: what Christ has accomplished through me, in Christ Jesus, minister of Christ
Review routing: Native speaker review
Ministry is done in Christ’s name, by his power, for his glory; not humanitarian or social-uplift service pursued as an end in itself, however aligned its aims may be with the gospel’s fruit.
Church as God’s People
Marathi name: देवाची प्रजा म्हणून मंडळी
Key terms: body of Christ, one body, church, saints, assembly
Review routing: Native speaker review
A new covenant community, not a caste-segregated assembly or a ritual institution built around a temple building.
Evangelism
Marathi name: सुवार्ता प्रसार
Key terms: preach, proclaim, evangelize, send, how will they hear
Review routing: Native speaker review
Culturally sensitive given both Hindu-nationalist and communal concerns around conversion in Maharashtra; use language of proclamation and witness, not confrontation.
Kingdom Mission
Marathi name: राज्याचे 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 social-reform movement, however worthy such movements may be in their own right.
Mission to the Nations
Marathi name: राष्ट्रांसाठी मिशन
Key terms: nations, gentiles, all peoples, to the ends of the earth
Review routing: Native speaker review
‘Mission’ carries colonial-era connotation; सुवार्ता प्रसार is preferred in most contexts.
Prayer and Intercession
Marathi name: प्रार्थना आणि मध्यस्थी
Key terms: prayer, intercession, pray, groan, spirit intercedes
Review routing: Native speaker review
Direct access to God in Christ’s name; distinguish from bhakti puja/kirtan directed toward Vitthal and from Buddhist chanting or meditation practice, neither of which addresses a personal, listening God.
Spiritual Gifts
Marathi name: आत्मिक कृपादान
Key terms: spiritual gift, gift, grace gift, measure of faith
Review routing: Native speaker review
Spirit-given enablement; not merit-earned powers or yogic/ascetic siddhi.
Low Risk Doctrines
Christian Fellowship
Marathi 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
Marathi name: परस्पर उन्नती
Key terms: build up, edify, encourage one another, strengthen
Review routing: Automated review
Building one another up in faith; no significant doctrinal risk.
Thanksgiving
Marathi name: उपकारस्तुती
Key terms: thanksgiving, give thanks, grateful, thank God
Review routing: Automated review
Standard term; minor risk of over-ritualization.
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