Glossary Term
Risk: Critical- Approved rendering
- insindiso
- Transliteration
- insindiso
- Rejected alternatives
- ukuvikelwa (protection, never as a stand-alone substitute), impilo enhle (general wellbeing/good health)
Salvation
CRITICAL: insindiso (from -sindisa, ‘to rescue/save’) is the correct and only viable term. The specific risk for Zulu is that protection from harm, illness, and misfortune is traditionally sought through consultation with amadlozi (ancestors) via an isangoma (diviner) and through muthi (traditional medicine), a whole existing framework of deliverance-seeking that operates independently of, and sometimes in place of, uNkulunkulu. Romans’ salvation through Christ alone (10:9-10) must be stated as categorically distinct from this ancestor-and-medicine-mediated protection framework, not merely as a stronger version of it.