Passage

Romans 4

• Doctrine

  Faith

  CRITICAL: personal trust in Christ, not the inherited national-religious identity captured in the 'Polak-katolik' stereotype, and not a status conferred automatically through baptism and First Communion.

  ROM.4.1-25

• Glossary Term

  Faith

  CRITICAL: in Poland, Catholic identity has historically been fused with national identity (the 'Polak-katolik' — 'Pole-Catholic' — stereotype), reinforced by the Church's historic role resisting partition, Nazi occupation, and communist rule, and by the towering cultural figure of Pope John Paul II.

  ROM.4.1-25

• Glossary Term

  Resurrection

  Standard, unambiguous term with no rival-religion confusion.

  ROM.4.25

• Doctrine

  Resurrection of Christ

  CRITICAL: bodily, historical, once-for-all resurrection.

  ROM.4.25