Incarnation

CRITICAL: a descriptive compound (‘God became a person’) stands in for a single fixed theological term, which does not yet exist in the available Fulfulde Christian literature — a clear marker of this language’s thinner translation tradition requiring more reliance on descriptive phrases than Swahili’s or Zulu’s more settled vocabularies. Theologically, God taking human form is considered shirk (blasphemous association) in Islamic theology; this must be taught with direct, careful explanation given the sophistication of regional Islamic theological education, not sidestepped.