Glossary Term
Risk: High- Approved rendering
- віра
- Transliteration
- vira
- Rejected alternatives
- довіра, переконання
Faith
віра is standard and unambiguous, but as in other historically state-church contexts, ‘faith’ can default to confessional/institutional identity (яка у нього віра? = ‘what is his faith/confession?’) rather than Romans’ sense of personal trust in Christ. This is complicated in Ukraine by the added question of which confession, given the OCU/UOC/Greek Catholic/Protestant landscape; context must make clear Romans means personal trust, not confessional affiliation.
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