Executive Summary — Luke (English → Polish)

Why it matters: Luke’s Gospel — anchored in Jesus’ Nazareth manifesto (4:16-21) — proclaims good news to the poor, forgiveness to captives, and salvation to all nations, Jew and Gentile, rich and poor alike. In Poland, this message lands in a religious culture where Catholic and national identity are historically fused (“Polak-katolik”), where Marian devotion is exceptionally intense (Częstochowa, “Totus Tuus”), and where specific devotional categories — Divine Mercy, purgatory, Jubilee Holy Years, beatification, the Assumption — have vocabulary that collides directly with Luke’s own theological vocabulary. Getting this translation right means the text teaches what Luke teaches, not what Polish devotional culture already assumes it must mean.

Key findings

• 126 tracked theological terms span this Language Package (47 inherited unchanged from the Romans baseline + 79 newly introduced by Luke’s full 24-chapter scope). Of these, 59 terms are Critical or High risk (31 Critical, 28 High) and require mandatory human theologian review at every occurrence, per the escalation rules in 12_ai_translation_requirements.md.
• 32 doctrines are tracked across Luke; 23 require human theologian review (16 Critical + 7 High), 7 require native speaker review, and 2 are automated-only — matching doctrine_risk_registry.json’s risk summary exactly.
• Luke introduces five distinctively acute, Poland-specific collision risks absent or minor in the Romans baseline: (1) the Marian-devotional weight of Luke 1’s “łaski pełna” (Hail Mary text itself); (2) the “Boże Miłosierdzie” (Divine Mercy/Faustyna) collision with biblical ἔλεος; (3) the “Rok Jubileuszowy” (papal Holy Year/indulgences) collision with the Leviticus 25 Jubilee at 4:19; (4) the “czyściec” (purgatory) collision with Hades/Paradise texts (16:19-31, 23:43); (5) the near-homophonous “Wniebowzięcie” (Assumption of Mary) vs. “Wniebowstąpienie” (Christ’s Ascension, 24:51).
• The core passage itself (4:16-21) concentrates seven Critical-risk terms in six verses (anointed, poor, release/forgiveness, Jubilee, blessed-adjacent poverty language, today, fulfilled), making it the single highest doctrinal-density passage in the entire curriculum.
• Two Greek terms — σῴζω (save/heal) and ἄφεσις (release/forgiveness) — force a single-word Greek concept into a two-word Polish split, requiring mandatory translator notes at every occurrence to prevent the loss of Luke’s deliberate wordplay.
• Luke chapter 1 alone is flagged for full-chapter mandatory theologian review regardless of individual term tier, given the cumulative weight of Marian and Divine Mercy devotional vocabulary concentrated there.

Risks

• Highest risk: Silent spiritualization of “ubogich” (the poor) into private charity or voluntary religious poverty, erasing Luke’s literal, material, definitional target audience for the gospel.
• High risk: “Pokuta” displacing “nawrócenie” as the default rendering of repentance, redirecting Luke’s call to fundamental reorientation toward the sacramental confession process.
• High risk: “Błogosławiony” collapsing into the ecclesiastical beatification title, turning the Beatitudes into commentary on canonization rather than God’s present favor on ordinary people.
• High risk: Three named doctrinal collisions (Jubilee/indulgences, Hades-Paradise/purgatory, Ascension/Assumption) defaulting to the familiar Polish Catholic category rather than the text’s own distinct claim, if disambiguation notes are omitted.
• Moderate risk: Batch/parallel Phase 2 processing losing consistency on recurring structural motifs (σήμερον “today,” σπλαγχνίζομαι “visceral compassion”) that appear unpredictably across widely separated chapters.

Opportunities

• Poland’s lexical readiness is strong: every core term already has a settled, non-invented Polish rendering (per 05_translation_landscape.md); the translation task is disciplined doctrinal fencing, not vocabulary invention.
• Poland’s own strong missionary-sending tradition and rich, varied prayer culture are cultural assets that can reinforce (not just risk-complicate) the Mission to the Nations and Prayer and Dependence on God doctrines, if framed as fulfillment rather than contradiction.
• The centurion (7:1-10), the Samaritan (10:25-37), and Zacchaeus (19:1-10) narratives offer vivid, concrete teaching opportunities to make “Jesus as Savior for All Nations and All People” doctrinally unmistakable in a culture prone to conflating salvation with national-religious belonging.

Recommended actions

1. Load assets/translation_memory.json (v2) and assets/bible_term_registry.json (Luke) in full before any Phase 2 segment processing begins; do not process Luke segments against the Romans-only baseline files.
2. Route all Luke 1 segments, the full core passage (4:16-21), Luke 16:19-31, Luke 18:9-14, Luke 22:14-20, and Luke 23:39-24:53 to mandatory human theologian review before Phase 2 sign-off, per the escalation rules in 12_ai_translation_requirements.md.
3. Enforce the mandatory translator-note requirement at every occurrence of the eight flagged structural/wordplay terms (ἄφεσις, κεχαριτωμένη, μακάριος, Ἅδης/παράδεισος, ἐντὸς ὑμῶν, μισέω, σῴζω, ἀναλαμβάνω) without exception.
4. Brief all human theologian reviewers specifically on the five Poland-specific collision risks (Marian devotion, Divine Mercy, Jubilee/indulgences, purgatory, Assumption/Ascension) before review begins, since these are not generic Catholic-Protestant divergences but destination-culture-specific devotional overlays absent from other Language Packages in this pipeline.
5. Carry forward all baseline Romans forbidden substitutions unchanged into every Luke Phase 2 session; this Language Package extends, and must never contradict, the Romans baseline.

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This summary synthesizes 04_comparative_theology.md, 05_translation_landscape.md, 06_linguistic_gap_analysis.md, 07_semantic_analysis.md, 08_core_glossary.md, 11_doctrine_analysis.md, assets/translation_memory.json, assets/bible_term_registry.json, and assets/doctrine_risk_registry.json. All counts stated above are exact as of this document’s generation date and must be re-verified if any upstream artifact is updated.