Passage

Romans 12

• Doctrine

  Christian Identity in Christ

  Identity located in union with Christ, not in inherited cultural Catholic or Christian identity by birth ('soy cristiano de nacimiento') or in accumulated religious merit.

  ROM.12.5

• Glossary Term

  Church

  Distinguish Romans 16's gathered people of God from the capitalized institutional-hierarchical sense foregrounded in Catholic usage.

  ROM.12.4-5

• Doctrine

  Church as God's People

  The new covenant community gathered around Christ, distinct from the capitalized institutional-hierarchical sense of 'la Iglesia' foregrounded in Catholic usage.

  ROM.12.4-5

• Doctrine

  Separation unto God's Service

  Risk of conflation with the Catholic category of 'vida consagrada' (consecrated religious life) as a specially set-apart class, rather than the calling of every believer.

  ROM.12.1-2

• Doctrine

  Spiritual Gifts

  Spirit-given enablements for the church, not merit-earned powers or the folk-healing 'dones' framework of curanderismo and Santería found in parts of Latin America and the Caribbean.

  ROM.12.6-8

• Glossary Term

  Spiritual Gifts

  In regions with active folk-healing or Afro-diasporic religious practice (curanderismo, Santería's initiatory gifts), 'poderes espirituales' risks being read through a spiritist or folk-healing lens.

  ROM.12.6-8