Doctrine Analysis
Doctrine Analysis
This Language Package’s doctrine_risk_registry.json tracks 40 doctrines across Romans 1-16, each assigned a risk tier that drives Phase 2 review routing.
Risk tier summary
| Tier | Count | Review routing | Example doctrines |
|---|---|---|---|
| Critical | 4 | Human theologian, every occurrence | Grace, Salvation, Sanctification, Assurance of Salvation |
| High | 13 | Human theologian | Gospel, Lordship of Christ, Faith, Adoption, Sainthood, Universal Scope of the Gospel, Unity of Jews and Gentiles, Church as God’s People |
| Medium | 20 | Native speaker review | Incarnation, Deity of Christ, Sonship of Christ, Resurrection of Christ, Prayer and Intercession, Mission to the Nations, Evangelism |
| Low | 3 | Automated review only | Thanksgiving, Mutual Edification, Christian Fellowship |
Why Critical doctrines cluster where they do
All four Critical-risk doctrines share one property distinct from a syncretism-risk profile: each collides with a live, named theological divergence between Reformation forensic categories and Orthodox synergism/theosis, not with a rival non-Christian religious concept. Grace, salvation, sanctification, and assurance are precisely the doctrines where Russian’s existing, perfectly fluent Christian vocabulary was shaped by a different soteriological tradition than the one this curriculum teaches — making a “fluent and doctrinally correct in Orthodox terms” translation potentially misaligned with Romans’ own forensic argument if the curriculum doesn’t state its position explicitly.
Review routing rationale
Critical and High risk doctrines (17 of 40) require mandatory human theologian review because an automated or native-speaker-only check could confirm the Russian is fluent and theologically coherent (in an Orthodox sense) without catching that it doesn’t match Romans’ specific forensic argument. Native speaker review is sufficient for the 20 Medium-risk doctrines, which include the shared Christological core (incarnation, deity and sonship of Christ, resurrection) — lower risk than Hindi’s equivalent set because Russian Orthodoxy already confesses the same Nicene doctrine, and the concern is clarity of exposition and secularization-related register, not doctrinal contradiction.