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 | 7 | Human theologian, every occurrence | Divine Calling, Effectual Calling, Grace, Salvation, Sanctification, Prayer and Intercession, Providence |
| High | 9 | Human theologian | Separation unto God’s Service, Inspiration of Scripture, Lordship of Christ, Obedience of Faith, Faith, Sainthood, Universal Scope of the Gospel, Unity of Jews and Gentiles, Power of God for Salvation |
| Medium | 21 | Native speaker review | Incarnation, Deity of Christ, Sonship of Christ, Resurrection of Christ, Davidic Covenant, Adoption, Church as God’s People |
| Low | 3 | Automated review only | Thanksgiving, Mutual Edification, Christian Fellowship |
Why Critical doctrines cluster where they do
All seven Critical-risk doctrines trace to one of two sources distinct from a Christology-contest risk profile: either the direct lexical and structural overlap between biblical calling/intercession/providence and the traditional Zulu framework of ancestral calling (ubizo) and ancestor-mediated intercession and protection (amadlozi), or ubuntu’s reciprocal ethic reshaping how unmerited grace is understood. Notably, and unlike Hindi’s or Swahili’s Critical clusters, none of Zulu’s Critical doctrines concern the incarnation, deity, sonship, or resurrection of Christ — traditional Zulu religion holds no specific competing claim about Christ himself, so those doctrines sit at Medium risk here, a genuinely different risk shape than in languages facing either Hindu or Islamic theological competition.
Review routing rationale
Critical and High risk doctrines (16 of 40) require mandatory human theologian review because an automated or native-speaker-only check could confirm the Zulu is lexically correct and fluent without catching that the overall structure still implies, or fails to explicitly rule out, an ancestor-mediated relationship with God. Native speaker review is sufficient for the 21 Medium-risk doctrines, which include most of the shared Christological core, where the settled century-old Zulu Bible tradition and the absence of a competing native doctrine make the concern one of clear exposition rather than doctrinal contradiction.