The article proposes a reflection on certain difficulties concerning the translation of Orthodox theology texts from French into Romanian. Most of them are related to the socio-cultural particularities that characterize the languages and cultures involved in the translation act. The most important of these is the different reception of the religious, and the specific development of the Christian-Orthodox lexicon in the two cultures, reflected at the linguistic, terminological and discursive levels. The reflection will be supported by the analysis of examples selected from a corpus of texts of theology that we have translated ourselves from French into Romanian. The aim is to show that the success of this type of translation is guaranteed by the implementation of two main translation strategies: the translation by terminological equivalence (specialised, in the specific case of these translations) and the pragmatic strategy of explicitation.