Passage

Romans 3

• Doctrine

  Faith

  Personal trust in Christ, not generalized religious devotion or inherited Orthodox cultural identity by birth.

  ROM.3.22-28

• Glossary Term

  Faith

  Personal trust in Christ specifically, not generalized religious devotion or inherited Orthodox cultural identity.

  ROM.3.22-28

• Doctrine

  Fulfillment of Prophecy

  Linear historical fulfillment (Old Testament to New Testament); generally well-supported by Orthodox liturgical use of OT readings, though systematic OT background may still need reinforcement.

  ROM.3.21

• Glossary Term

  Gentiles

  Standard term; avoid the pejorative 'păgâni.'

  ROM.3.29-30

• Doctrine

  Grace

  CRITICAL: Orthodox Palamite theology understands grace as uncreated divine energies in which the believer really participates toward theosis, distinct from both a Catholic created-and-infused-through-merit reading and a purely forensic Protestant favor-only reading.

  ROM.3.24

• Glossary Term

  Grace

  CRITICAL: Orthodox theology, following Gregory Palamas' essence-energies distinction, understands har as the uncreated energies of God in which the believer really participates, enabling theosis (îndumnezeire) — not a created substance infused through merit (the Catholic/Tridentine reading) nor merely a legal favor bestowed without ontological change (a purely forensic Protestant reading).

  ROM.3.24

• Glossary Term

  Israel

  Standard proper name.

  ROM.3.29-30

• Glossary Term

  Law

  The Mosaic law/Torah; standard and unambiguous.

  ROM.3.21

• Glossary Term

  Prophecy

  God-inspired declaration; standard term.

  ROM.3.21

• Glossary Term

  Sin

  Moral transgression before a personal, holy God; standard and well understood in Orthodox culture.

  ROM.3.23

• Doctrine

  Unity of Jews and Gentiles

  Must translate with full theological clarity; lower direct social-hierarchy charge in the Romanian context than caste or racial-hierarchy contexts elsewhere in this pipeline, but still requires care given the historic entanglement of Orthodoxy with national identity ('neam').

  ROM.3.29-30

• Doctrine

  Universal Human Accountability

  All humanity equally guilty before God; retain unqualified universal language.

  ROM.3.23