Passage

Romans 16

• Doctrine

  Christian Fellowship

  Shared participation in Christ; avoid conflating with the specifically Eucharistic sense of 'comuniune' in Orthodox liturgical usage.

  ROM.16.3-16

• Glossary Term

  Church

  Orthodox ecclesiology holds the Church as the one visible body in unbroken continuity with the apostles; distinguish Romans 16's local gathered congregation sense from this exclusivist institutional claim.

  ROM.16.1-16

• Doctrine

  Church as God's People

  The new covenant community gathered around Christ, distinct from the exclusivist institutional claim of 'Biserica' as the one legitimate visible church.

  ROM.16.1-16

• Glossary Term

  Fellowship

  'Părtășie' is the more common Evangelical/Cornilescu-tradition term; 'comuniune' carries stronger Orthodox liturgical (Eucharistic) association.

  ROM.16.3-16

• Doctrine

  Obedience of Faith

  Obedience flowing from faith, not compliance with ecclesiastical ordinances, fasting rules, or the liturgical calendar, which risk becoming the default referent of religious obedience in an Orthodox-majority culture with a rich observance calendar.

  ROM.16.26

• Glossary Term

  Obedience Of Faith

  Romans 1:5 and 16:26.

  ROM.16.26

• Doctrine

  Thanksgiving

  Standard term; minimal risk.

  ROM.16.4

• Glossary Term

  Thanksgiving

  Standard term.

  ROM.16.4