Passage

Romans 5

• 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.5.1-2

• Glossary Term

  Faith

  ukholo is standard and well established.

  ROM.5.1-2

• Doctrine

  Grace

  CRITICAL: umusa is also the everyday word for kindness within ubuntu, the deeply held ethic of reciprocal communal obligation, in which kindness shown is typically understood within a web of mutual expectation.

  ROM.5.2, ROM.5.15-17, ROM.5.20-21

• Glossary Term

  Grace

  CRITICAL: umusa is the correct and established term, but is also the everyday word for kindness, graciousness, and generosity within ubuntu, the deeply held Zulu and broader Southern African ethic of reciprocal communal obligation ('umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu' — a person is a person through other persons).

  ROM.5.2, ROM.5.15-17, ROM.5.20-21

• Doctrine

  Humanity of Christ

  Real physical human nature is uncontroversial doctrinal ground here; no competing native doctrine of illusory or docetic humanity.

  ROM.5.15

• Glossary Term

  Peace

  ukuthula is the standard term, also carrying strong social and communal resonance from South Africa's transition from apartheid (peace and reconciliation are major national themes).

  ROM.5.1

• Doctrine

  Peace with God

  ukuthula also carries strong social and national reconciliation resonance from South Africa's post-apartheid transition; Romans 5:1's specific relational, judicial peace through justification should be distinguished from this national sense and from mere personal calm.

  ROM.5.1