Passage
Romans 15
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Doctrine
Christ-Centered Ministry
Ministry done in Christ's name and power, for his glory, not generic humanitarian service or interfaith goodwill activity divorced from the gospel.
ROM.15.17-21
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Doctrine
Christian Fellowship
Shared participation in Christ, not merely social or ethnic community (kardeşlik/ümmet-style belonging).
ROM.15.24
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Glossary Term
Church
Kilise is the established, unambiguous Turkish word for the Christian church building and body.
ROM.15.26
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Doctrine
Church as God's People
New covenant community, not a cemaat in the politically loaded contemporary Turkish sense of an organized religious movement.
ROM.15.26
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Glossary Term
Covenant
Antlaşma (also used for 'Old/New Testament' as Eski/Yeni Antlaşma) is the established relational-covenant term.
ROM.15.12
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Glossary Term
David
Established Turkish Bible proper name form; also recognizable from the Qur'anic Dawud, though the Qur'an presents him primarily as a prophet-king without the messianic covenant content Romans assumes.
ROM.15.12
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Doctrine
Davidic Covenant
The Qur'an presents Dawud primarily as a prophet-king; the specific covenant promise of an eternal royal line fulfilled in the Messiah has no Islamic parallel and requires deliberate background teaching.
ROM.15.12
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Doctrine
Evangelism
Evangelism carries real legal and social risk in this context (proselytization stigma, occasional social or family reprisal against converts); use language of proclamation and witness, and route to human theologian review for pastoral care as well as translation accuracy.
ROM.15.20
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Glossary Term
Exhort
Context-sensitive: use rica etmek (entreat/beseech) for pleading; teşvik etmek (encourage/urge on) for building up.
ROM.15.2
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Glossary Term
Fellowship
Shared participation in Christ.
ROM.15.24
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Doctrine
Fulfillment of Prophecy
Linear historical fulfillment (OT promise fulfilled uniquely in Jesus) contrasts with the Islamic pattern of successive, largely self-contained prophets each restating the same basic message; Romans' argument depends on cumulative, converging OT promise, which needs explicit unpacking.
ROM.15.8-12
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Glossary Term
Gentiles
Uluslar ('nations,' i.e.
ROM.15.7-12
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Doctrine
Gospel
Must be distinguished from İncil as a mere book-title Muslims regard as historically corrupted (tahrif).
ROM.15.19-20
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Glossary Term
Gospel
Müjde ('good news') is the established Turkish Bible term.
ROM.15.19-20
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Glossary Term
Holy
Kutsal = set apart for God, morally pure.
ROM.15.16
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Glossary Term
Holy Spirit
CRITICAL: In Qur'anic usage, 'Ruh al-Qudus' (the same phrase, Kutsal Ruh) is widely understood by Muslim commentators to refer to the archangel Gabriel aiding Jesus, not a co-equal divine Person.
ROM.15.16
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Doctrine
Inspiration of Scripture
CRITICAL: Islamic doctrine of tahrif (the claim that the Christian Bible has been textually corrupted from an original, lost Injil) is a foundational and widely taught objection in this context.
ROM.15.4
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Glossary Term
Intercession
Prayer on behalf of others, or Christ's/the Spirit's mediating work.
ROM.15.30-32
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Glossary Term
Israel
Proper name; established Turkish Bible form.
ROM.15.7-12
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Doctrine
Kingdom Mission
God's reign advancing through the gospel, not a literal state (devlet) -- a sensitive category in a country with a strong secular-state tradition and active debate over religion's role in public life.
ROM.15.12, ROM.15.18-21
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Glossary Term
Kingdom Of God
God's sovereign reign, not a political state.
ROM.15.12, ROM.15.18-21
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Glossary Term
Law
Refers to the Mosaic law.
ROM.15.8-12
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Glossary Term
Messiah
CRITICAL: Mesih is transliterated and shared with the Qur'anic al-Masih title given to Isa, but the Qur'an empties the title of its Old-Testament content (anointed king-priest-savior fulfilling David's line) and treats it as an honorific with no salvific weight.
ROM.15.8-12
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Doctrine
Messianic Promise
CRITICAL: The Qur'an grants Isa the title al-Masih but strips it of the OT king-priest-savior content Paul assumes.
ROM.15.8-12
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Glossary Term
Mission
Müjdeleme görevi ('task of proclaiming good news') avoids misyonerlik, a term that in Turkish public discourse is frequently associated with foreign political agendas and historical suspicion rather than simple gospel proclamation.
ROM.15.15-24
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Doctrine
Mission to the Nations
Cultural sensitivity: 'mission/misyonerlik' carries conspiratorial, foreign-agenda connotations in Turkish public discourse.
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 through Christ, distinguished from şefaat, the Islamic doctrine of Muhammad's intercession for his community on Judgment Day, and from petitioning deceased evliya at shrines.
ROM.15.30-32
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Glossary Term
Prophecy
God-inspired declaration pointing to Christ.
ROM.15.8-12
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Glossary Term
Prophet
Peygamber is the standard, shared Islamic-Turkish term for a prophet, which is precisely the risk: it is also exactly the (exclusive) category into which Islamic theology places Jesus himself.
ROM.15.4
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Doctrine
Sanctification
The Spirit's ongoing work of making believers holy, distinguished from ritual purification (tahara/wudu-adjacent arınma) and from Sufi ascetic self-purification practices.
ROM.15.16
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Glossary Term
Sanctification
The Spirit's ongoing work of making believers holy.
ROM.15.16
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Glossary Term
Seed Of David
Romans 1:3; conveys physical lineage and fulfillment of the Davidic covenant promise, a background largely unfamiliar to readers without OT exposure.
ROM.15.12
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Doctrine
Separation unto God's Service
Must not be confused with Sufi-tradition asceticism or withdrawal (zühd) associated with evliya figures.
ROM.15.16
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Doctrine
Unity of Jews and Gentiles
Less socially loaded here than in caste-based contexts, but still needs to be translated with full theological clarity given contemporary geopolitical sensitivity around Jewish-Christian-Muslim relations.
ROM.15.7-12