Passage

Romans 16

• Doctrine

  Christian Fellowship

  Shared participation in Christ; avoid коллектив, the Soviet-era term for a work/social collective, which flattens fellowship into an organizational unit.

  ROM.16.3-16

• Glossary Term

  Church

  церковь is the only viable term but in Russian usage overwhelmingly denotes either the Russian Orthodox Church as an institution or a physical building (храм).

  ROM.16.1-16

• Doctrine

  Church as God's People

  церковь overwhelmingly denotes the Russian Orthodox Church as an institution or a physical building in ordinary usage; readers must be given an explicit frame for church as the gathered people of God so they do not assume the text can only be describing Orthodoxy itself, especially relevant for the many Evangelical and Protestant minority congregations this curriculum also serves.

  ROM.16.1-16

• Glossary Term

  Fellowship

  общение conveys shared communion/participation well.

  ROM.16.3-16

• Doctrine

  Obedience of Faith

  Obedience that flows from faith, not a separate meritorious religious duty (религиозный долг) or ritual observance (соблюдение обрядов) stacked alongside it; must not collapse into an Orthodox-praxis-only reading of the Christian life.

  ROM.16.26

• Glossary Term

  Obedience Of Faith

  Romans 1:5 and 16:26.

  ROM.16.26

• Doctrine

  Thanksgiving

  Standard term shared with Orthodox liturgical usage (the Eucharist itself, Евхаристия, means thanksgiving).

  ROM.16.4

• Glossary Term

  Thanksgiving

  Standard term shared across Orthodox liturgy (the Eucharist itself is called Евхаристия/благодарение) and everyday Russian.

  ROM.16.4