Passage

Romans 4

• Doctrine

  Faith

  Risk that 'having faith' defaults to general religious affiliation or identity rather than Romans' sense of personal, saving trust in Christ specifically; the object of faith must always be made explicit.

  ROM.4.1-25

• Glossary Term

  Faith

  ukholo is standard and well established.

  ROM.4.1-25

• Glossary Term

  Resurrection

  ukuvuka kwabafileyo ('the rising of the dead') is the established, doctrinally precise phrase.

  ROM.4.25

• Doctrine

  Resurrection of Christ

  No competing native reincarnation doctrine exists, though the ongoing presence of amadlozi (ancestors) as active spirits among the living should not be confused with Christ's unique, bodily, historical resurrection.

  ROM.4.25