Doctrine Analysis
Doctrine Analysis
This Language Package’s doctrine_risk_registry.json tracks 40 doctrines across Romans 1-16, each assigned a risk tier that drives Phase 2 review routing.
Risk tier summary
| Tier | Count | Review routing | Example doctrines |
|---|---|---|---|
| Critical | 8 | Human theologian, every occurrence | Salvation, Sainthood, Prayer and Intercession, Incarnation-adjacent Christology (Deity, Sonship, Resurrection, Lordship of Christ), Messianic Promise |
| High | 13 | Human theologian | Gospel, Grace, Faith, Sanctification, Universal Scope of the Gospel, Unity of Jews and Gentiles, Assurance of Salvation |
| Medium | 15 | Native speaker review | Apostleship-adjacent doctrines, Providence, Spiritual Gifts, Mission to the Nations, Evangelism, Church as God’s People |
| Low | 4 | Automated review only | Apostleship, Thanksgiving, Mutual Edification, Christian Fellowship |
Why Critical doctrines cluster where they do
Spanish’s Critical-risk cluster looks different from a syncretism-vocabulary language like Hindi: five of the eight Critical doctrines (Salvation, Sainthood, Prayer and Intercession, plus the shared Christological core) are Critical not because a rival word exists, but because the same Spanish word carries divergent theological content depending on whether the reader’s formation is Catholic (Tridentine) or Protestant (Reformation), or because popular piety has narrowed a New Testament sense (saints, intercession) to a specific devotional practice (veneration, Marian mediation) that Romans does not intend.
Review routing rationale
Critical and High risk doctrines (21 of 40) require mandatory human theologian review because an automated or native-speaker-only check could confirm the Spanish is fluent and even doctrinally orthodox by Catholic standards, without catching that it diverges from the forensic, direct-access theology Romans is actually arguing for. Native speaker review is sufficient for Medium-risk doctrines, where the concern is regional cultural fit (e.g. Caribbean Espiritismo/Santería adjacency, colonial connotations of “misión”) rather than a cross-tradition doctrinal contradiction.