Passage
Romans 15
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Doctrine
Christ-Centered Ministry
Ministry done in Christ's name, by his power, for his glory, not generic dharmic service or guru-style instruction detached from the gospel.
ROM.15.17-21
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Doctrine
Christian Fellowship
Shared participation in Christ, not the specific satsaṅga devotional-gathering practice of Vaishnava bhakti tradition.
ROM.15.24
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Glossary Term
Church
Never मन्दिरम् (temple, image-centered) or मठः (a monastic institution organizationally tied to a guru-lineage, e.g.
ROM.15.26
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Doctrine
Church as God's People
New covenant community, not a maṭha (guru-lineage monastic institution) or a varṇa-segregated assembly.
ROM.15.26
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Glossary Term
Covenant
वाचा (speech/word) is avoided because it activates Vāc theology: in Ṛgvedic and later Mīmāṃsā thought, Vāc is a cosmic principle of speech, and Mīmāṃsā holds the Veda's very sound-form to be eternal (śabda-brahman) -- a rich but unrelated doctrine that would distract from covenant's relational-promise sense.
ROM.15.12
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Glossary Term
David
Proper name, transliterated consistent with the Serampore Sanskrit New Testament tradition.
ROM.15.12
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Doctrine
Davidic Covenant
Requires explicit Old Testament background explanation; no analogous royal-lineage covenant concept exists in classical Sanskrit political or religious literature.
ROM.15.12
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Doctrine
Evangelism
Framed as scholarly and liturgical proclamation and witness appropriate to this Language Package's intended dialogical/academic use, not confrontational framing.
ROM.15.20
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Glossary Term
Exhort
Context-sensitive: use विनयः/प्रार्थना (entreaty) for beseeching; उत्तेजनम् (encouragement/stirring up) for building up.
ROM.15.2
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Glossary Term
Fellowship
सत्सङ्गः ('association with the good/true') is a specific, well-developed devotional practice-category in Vaishnava bhakti and later Hindu reform movements (gathering with the wise for spiritual discourse); सहभागिता (shared participation) avoids importing that specific institutional practice.
ROM.15.24
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Doctrine
Fulfillment of Prophecy
Linear historical fulfillment (OT to NT), not the cyclical time of the four yugas (kṛta, tretā, dvāpara, kali) within which avatāras periodically appear per Gītā 4.7-8.
ROM.15.8-12
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Glossary Term
Gentiles
म्लेच्छाः is explicitly rejected: in classical Sanskrit usage this term for 'foreigner/outsider' carries a ritual-impurity and cultural-contempt connotation (those outside varṇa society and Vedic ritual competence) far more pejorative than the neutral 'non-Jew' sense Paul intends.
ROM.15.7-12
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Doctrine
Gospel
Must be distinguished from a general auspicious announcement (śubha).
ROM.15.19-20
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Glossary Term
Gospel
Follows the precedent of William Carey's 1808 Serampore Sanskrit New Testament, which coined this compound (su- 'good' + samācāra 'report/conduct-account') rather than borrowing a term already tied to a specific school.
ROM.15.19-20
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Glossary Term
Holy
The Vedic root sense of pavitra is a physical purifying instrument (e.g.
ROM.15.16
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Glossary Term
Holy Spirit
CRITICAL -- THE SINGLE HIGHEST-STAKES TERM IN THIS ENTIRE LANGUAGE PACKAGE: आत्मन् is not a loosely 'spiritual-sounding' word but the central category of Vedāntic metaphysics.
ROM.15.16
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Doctrine
Inspiration of Scripture
This is the sharpest possible contrast in this whole registry between two developed doctrines of scriptural authority: the Veda is held to be apauruṣeya (not authored by any person, including God), eternally existent, and merely 'seen' (dṛś) by ṛṣis in a state of heightened perception.
ROM.15.4
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Glossary Term
Intercession
Prayer offered on behalf of others through Christ as sole mediator; a plain compound with no major rival technical sense.
ROM.15.30-32
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Glossary Term
Israel
Proper name, transliterated.
ROM.15.7-12
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Doctrine
Kingdom Mission
God's reign advancing through the gospel, not a political kingdom or a cosmic yuga-cycle restoration of dharma.
ROM.15.12, ROM.15.18-21
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Glossary Term
Kingdom Of God
God's sovereign reign; a straightforward genitive-noun construction with no major rival technical sense to displace.
ROM.15.12, ROM.15.18-21
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Glossary Term
Law
विधिः is deliberately chosen from Pūrva Mīmāṃsā, the classical school devoted entirely to interpreting Vedic scriptural injunctions: a vidhi is a positive scriptural command carrying binding authority.
ROM.15.8-12
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Glossary Term
Messiah
Transliterated term.
ROM.15.8-12
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Doctrine
Messianic Promise
CRITICAL: Messiah is a specific Jewish Old Testament concept fulfilled exclusively in Jesus.
ROM.15.8-12
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Glossary Term
Mission
Describes the activity plainly (proclamation of the good news).
ROM.15.15-24
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Doctrine
Mission to the Nations
Given this Language Package's scholarly/liturgical rather than lay-mission-field audience, colonial-connotation caution applies with less force than in vernacular Language Packages, but tone should remain descriptive and non-triumphalist.
ROM.15.15-24
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Doctrine
Mutual Edification
Building one another up in faith; no significant doctrinal risk.
ROM.15.2
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Doctrine
Prayer and Intercession
Direct access to God in Christ's name; distinguish from Vedic ritual invocation (āhvāna, homa) requiring precise mantra performance for efficacy.
ROM.15.30-32
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Glossary Term
Prophecy
God-inspired declaration of what is to come; a straightforward compound with no major competing technical sense.
ROM.15.8-12
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Glossary Term
Prophet
ऋषिः is rejected for a precise reason: a Vedic ṛṣi is credited with directly perceiving (√dṛś, hence mantra-draṣṭā, 'seer of the mantra') the eternal, uncreated (apauruṣeya) Veda, not with receiving a historically situated message from a personal God at a point in time.
ROM.15.4
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Doctrine
Sanctification
The Spirit's work of making believers holy, not the Vedic ritual-purification sense underlying pavitra's original usage, and not yogic self-purification (śuddhi) through discipline.
ROM.15.16
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Glossary Term
Sanctification
The Spirit's ongoing work of making believers holy, distinguished from Vedic/dharmaśāstra ritual purification procedures (śuddhi) prescribed for specific ritual-impurity events.
ROM.15.16
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Glossary Term
Seed Of David
Romans 1:3; conveys physical lineage and OT covenant fulfillment via the ablative वंशात् ('from the lineage').
ROM.15.12
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Doctrine
Separation unto God's Service
Must not be confused with the formal saṃnyāsa (renunciation) life-stage of the varṇāśrama-dharma system.
ROM.15.16
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Doctrine
Unity of Jews and Gentiles
Directly challenges varṇa-based ritual and spiritual hierarchy embedded in classical dharmaśāstra social theory.
ROM.15.7-12