Passage
Romans 15
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Doctrine
Christ-Centered Ministry
Ministry done in Christ's name, by his power, for his glory; not humanitarian or educational service divorced from the gospel, a distinction worth stressing given the historical association of mission work with schools among Santal communities since the Norwegian Santal Mission era.
ROM.15.17-21
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Doctrine
Christian Fellowship
Shared participation in Christ; not merely village or clan (paris) social association.
ROM.15.24
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Glossary Term
Church
kolisiya (transliterated) refers to the gathered assembly of believers.
ROM.15.26
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Doctrine
Church as God's People
New covenant community; not the jaher grove as a ritual institution or a clan-segregated village assembly.
ROM.15.26
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Glossary Term
Covenant
A provisional descriptive compound ('a given word/promise') for a relational covenant bond; confirm this rendering's exact naturalness with a Santali-speaking theologian, as no crystallized single covenant-theology term is attested in currently available Santali Christian literature.
ROM.15.12
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Glossary Term
David
Standard proper-name transliteration, following regional Bible-translation convention; confirm exact Santali form against a current published Santali Scripture edition.
ROM.15.12
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Doctrine
Davidic Covenant
Requires explicit Old Testament background teaching; there is no analogous royal-covenant concept in Sarnaism, though the strong Santal cultural emphasis on clan (paris) lineage gives 'seed of David' language a point of natural resonance to build from.
ROM.15.12
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Doctrine
Evangelism
Frame as proclamation and witness rather than confrontation, given the currently active, contemporary Sarna dharma identity-assertion movement (the 'Sarna code' campaign) among Santal communities.
ROM.15.20
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Glossary Term
Exhort
Context-sensitive: use for encouragement/strengthening; use binti (entreaty/pleading) for beseeching contexts.
ROM.15.2
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Glossary Term
Fellowship
A provisional descriptive term for shared togetherness/community; confirm regional naturalness with native speakers given limited established Santali Christian devotional vocabulary for this specific sense.
ROM.15.24
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Doctrine
Fulfillment of Prophecy
Linear, historical fulfillment (Old Testament promise to New Testament fulfillment in Christ) has no ready oral-tradition parallel in Sarnaism and should not be confused with an Ojha's divinatory pronouncements during a healing ritual.
ROM.15.8-12
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Glossary Term
Gentiles
Non-Jewish peoples; a plain descriptive rendering ('other/outside peoples').
ROM.15.7-12
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Doctrine
Gospel
Must be distinguished from ordinary good news of a successful harvest or a favorable outcome from a jaher offering; the gospel is the unique proclamation of salvation through Christ crucified and risen, a category requiring full explanation given the thin existing Santali doctrinal-study vocabulary.
ROM.15.19-20
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Glossary Term
Gospel
ᱡᱚᱛᱚ ᱠᱷᱚᱵᱚᱨ ('good/complete news,' khobor being a widely shared regional Indic loanword for 'news') is a plain descriptive rendering, offered provisionally pending confirmation from a Santali-speaking theologian, since no crystallized single Santali theological term for 'gospel' is attested in currently available literature.
ROM.15.19-20
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Glossary Term
Holy
pobitro (a shared regional loanword) conveys moral purity and being set apart for God.
ROM.15.16
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Glossary Term
Holy Spirit
CRITICAL: pobitro atma must always be used in full.
ROM.15.16
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Doctrine
Inspiration of Scripture
Sarnaism has no fixed written scripture; its teaching is oral and ritual, transmitted through the Naeke and community elders.
ROM.15.4
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Glossary Term
Intercession
Prayer/petition made on behalf of others (Romans 8:26-27); must be kept distinct from petitions traditionally carried to the bongas through a Naeke's sacrifice or an Ojha's ritual mediation on a household's or village's behalf.
ROM.15.30-32
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Glossary Term
Israel
Proper name; standard transliteration.
ROM.15.7-12
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Doctrine
Kingdom Mission
God's reign advancing through the gospel; must be distinguished from territorial-political framing given contemporary Adivasi land-rights and self-governance movements in Santal-majority regions.
ROM.15.12, ROM.15.18-21
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Glossary Term
Kingdom Of God
God's sovereign reign; should be explicitly distinguished from any territorial-political framing, given contemporary Adivasi land-rights and self-governance movements in the Santal-majority regions of Jharkhand, West Bengal, and Odisha.
ROM.15.12, ROM.15.18-21
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Glossary Term
Law
ain (a shared regional loanword for law/rule) refers to the Mosaic Law/Torah in this curriculum.
ROM.15.8-12
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Glossary Term
Messiah
CRITICAL: transliterated term, following regional Bible-translation convention.
ROM.15.8-12
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Doctrine
Messianic Promise
CRITICAL: Messiah is a specific Jewish Old Testament category fulfilled exclusively in Jesus; it must not be presented as one figure among the many bongas recognized in Sarnaism's spirit-world.
ROM.15.8-12
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Glossary Term
Mission
'The work of the news.' Santal communities have a long, mixed history with Christian mission (the 19th-century Norwegian Santal Mission being foundational but also entangled with the colonial administrative period); this curriculum should frame evangelism as the church's own ongoing calling, with sensitivity to that history.
ROM.15.15-24
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Doctrine
Mission to the Nations
Santal communities have a long, mixed history with Christian mission (the 19th-century Norwegian Santal Mission being foundational but also entangled with the colonial administrative period); frame evangelism as the church's own ongoing calling, with sensitivity to that history.
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 petitions traditionally carried to the bongas through a Naeke's sacrifice or an Ojha's ritual mediation.
ROM.15.30-32
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Glossary Term
Prophecy
God-inspired declaration; distinct from an Ojha's divinatory pronouncements during a healing ritual.
ROM.15.8-12
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Glossary Term
Prophet
God's spokesperson; must not be confused with an Ojha, the traditional healer and diviner recognized in Santal village religious life, or with a Naeke's ritual role.
ROM.15.4
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Doctrine
Sanctification
The Spirit's ongoing work of making believers holy; not the ritual purification a Naeke performs before jaher sacrifices.
ROM.15.16
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Glossary Term
Sanctification
The Spirit's ongoing work of making believers holy, distinct from the ritual purification a Naeke performs before jaher sacrifices.
ROM.15.16
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Glossary Term
Seed Of David
Romans 1:3; a provisional descriptive phrase conveying physical lineage, resonating with the strong Santal cultural emphasis on clan (paris) and lineage identity, but requiring explicit Old Testament covenant background since there is no analogous royal-covenant concept in Sarnaism.
ROM.15.12
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Doctrine
Separation unto God's Service
Must not be confused with the ritual restriction (saga) placed on the jaher grove itself or on a person during ceremonial preparation.
ROM.15.16
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Doctrine
Unity of Jews and Gentiles
Must be taught with theological clarity rather than mapped directly onto contemporary Adivasi/diku identity categories, which address a different (social/political) kind of division from the one Romans is resolving.
ROM.15.7-12