Passage

Romans 12

• Doctrine

  Christian Identity in Christ

  CRITICAL: identity located in union with Christ, not in inherited national-cultural Catholic identity by birth.

  ROM.12.5

• Glossary Term

  Church

  Distinguish Romans 16's local gathered congregation from the capitalized institutional sense ('Kościół') central to Polish Catholic ecclesiology and national life.

  ROM.12.4-5

• Doctrine

  Church as God's People

  The new covenant community gathered around Christ, distinct from the capitalized institutional sense of 'Kościół' central to Polish national and religious life.

  ROM.12.4-5

• Doctrine

  Separation unto God's Service

  Risk of conflation with the specifically consecrated-life category ('życie konsekrowane') as a specially set-apart class, rather than the calling of every believer.

  ROM.12.1-2

• Doctrine

  Spiritual Gifts

  Spirit-given enablements for the whole church, not gifts reserved for visionaries or shrine-associated devotional figures.

  ROM.12.6-8

• Glossary Term

  Spiritual Gifts

  Spirit-given enablements for the church; low syncretism risk, though should be distinguished from folk-Catholic visionary piety associated with certain shrines and private revelations, sometimes popularly described in similar 'gift' language.

  ROM.12.6-8