Passage

Romans 5

• Doctrine

  Faith

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

  ROM.5.1-2

• Glossary Term

  Faith

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

  ROM.5.1-2

• 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.5.2, ROM.5.15-17, ROM.5.20-21

• 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.5.2, ROM.5.15-17, ROM.5.20-21

• Doctrine

  Humanity of Christ

  Real physical human nature; well-supported by Orthodox iconographic and liturgical tradition, which insists on Christ's full, depictable humanity (a key argument in the iconoclasm controversy).

  ROM.5.15

• Glossary Term

  Peace

  Relational peace with God through justification, not merely inner calm.

  ROM.5.1

• Doctrine

  Peace with God

  Relational, covenantal peace through justification, not merely emotional tranquility.

  ROM.5.1