Glossary Term
Risk: Medium- Approved rendering
- Евангелие
- Transliteration
- Yevangeliye
- Rejected alternatives
- благая весть (informal gloss only), хорошая новость
Gospel
Established Synodal Bible term, already a loanword from Greek euangelion via Church Slavonic. Universally recognized even by secular Russians as ‘the Gospel [book]’; risk is that it is heard as the name of a book/genre rather than as a living proclamation, given widespread cultural but not personal familiarity with Orthodoxy.
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