Passage

Romans 13

• Glossary Term

  Justification

  CRITICAL: оправдание is the standard Synodal rendering, but Russian Orthodox theology has no developed forensic-declaration doctrine analogous to Reformation justification; salvation is more commonly framed as a synergistic, lifelong process of theosis (обожение) cooperating with grace rather than a one-time legal verdict.

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• Glossary Term

  Righteousness

  праведность is correct and established, but its everyday register (a 'righteous/upright person', праведник) evokes an Orthodox saint or morally exemplary elder, biasing readers toward righteousness-as-achieved-virtue rather than righteousness-as-gift received by faith.

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• Doctrine

  Salvation

  CRITICAL: Must be anchored to Christ's decisive death and resurrection (Romans 10:9-10) rather than defaulting into the Orthodox theosis framework of salvation as an open-ended, lifelong sacramental process.

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• Glossary Term

  Salvation

  CRITICAL: спасение is the correct and only viable term, but it must be anchored to Christ's death and resurrection as a decisive, received event (Romans 10:9-10), not left to default into the Orthodox theosis framework of salvation as an open-ended lifelong process of deification requiring ongoing sacramental participation.

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