Passage

Romans 5

• Doctrine

  Faith

  Personal trust in Christ; distinguish from பக்தி (bhakti), an unusually richly developed devotional category in Tamil Shaiva and Vaishnava poetic tradition.

  ROM.5.1-2

• Glossary Term

  Faith

  Personal trust in Christ specifically.

  ROM.5.1-2

• Doctrine

  Grace

  Tamil Sri Vaishnavism's prapatti debate (the Tenkalai "cat-and-kitten" wholly-unconditioned grace versus the Vadakalai "monkey-and-baby" cooperative grace) offers a genuinely sophisticated point of theological comparison, but Christian grace must still be taught as received through faith in Christ's finished work, not ritual surrender to a deity.

  ROM.5.2, ROM.5.15-17, ROM.5.20-21

• Glossary Term

  Grace

  Unmerited favor apart from human merit.

  ROM.5.2, ROM.5.15-17, ROM.5.20-21

• Doctrine

  Humanity of Christ

  Real, physical human nature; not an illusion or a temporary avatar-manifestation.

  ROM.5.15

• Glossary Term

  Peace

  In Romans 5:1, relational peace with God through justification, not merely psychological calm.

  ROM.5.1

• Doctrine

  Peace with God

  Relational, covenantal peace secured through justification, not merely psychological calm.

  ROM.5.1