Salvation

CRITICAL: standard term across Orthodox, Catholic, and Protestant Romanian Bibles alike — unlike most terms in this glossary, there is no rival word to reject. The risk is doctrinal: Orthodox theology understands mântuire primarily as theosis (îndumnezeire), a lifelong process of transformative union with God achieved through synergy between grace and free will and participation in the Church’s sacramental life, rather than primarily a one-time forensic declaration. Preserve Romans’ emphasis on salvation received decisively by faith while not flatly contradicting the Orthodox reader’s larger theosis framework.