Foreword

Volume Six, Issue II

The article on Church as an Agent of Transformation, discusses how the church plays a vital role in stopping the evil practices within the Nigerian traditional religion and cultures. Church being an agent of transformation also helps in contextualizing and indigenizing the Christian message to respond to Nigeria’s reality so that it will not be a stranger in the land.

The article on Re-Translating the Luvale Bible with a New Perspective: An Analytical Study discusses how some missionaries have gained more knowledge of the Luvale language since the Bible’s publication, and at the same time, some Luvale speaking natives have also gained enough knowledge of the English language to work together to re-translating the earlier work. The targeted texts are those that lack intelligibility between meanings of some Source-Language (SL) and Receptor-Language words, phrases, expressions and sentences. Therefore, to mitigate the inconsistencies, there is the use of the Frames methods which translate meaning by evenly distributing the ideational, interpersonal, or interactional and textual meanings to give a more natural receptor-language rendering to the texts with closeness to the original.

The article on Othering” in Ephesians 5:21-33: The Model of Christ’s Love and Relation to Women as the Interpretative Key for Single Mothers within Evangelical Church Winning All (ECWA).  This study looks at the possibility of Paul being influenced by the socio-political, religious and cultural dynamics of his time. No reference is made about single mothers that existed during the Roman Empire where the text is located. This begs the question this research tends to answer: Why did Paul decide to other the single mothers in the text? The research aims at hearing the voices of single mother’s right from Roman Empire and its implications to single mothers within ECWA by interpreting Christ’s love in the gospels to show how he relates with women that society tends to condemn.

The article on Double Predestination and the Quest for Certainty of Christian Salvation from an African Perspective: Towards Cumulative Case Argument and Transcendentalis, explores the Christian and the African theological perspectives of salvation and their certainty of it. It introduces a cumulative case that brings together objective and subjective approaches and by applying a transcendental method in reflecting on God-human encounter, proposes a possible assurance of salvation via transcendentalism.

The article on Distance Learning Students’ Mobile Phone Self-efficacy and Utilization for
Learning: A Case of St. Paul’s University POODLE Application, Kenya. Mobile phone technology has not been effectively utilized in education at the same level of efficiency and effectiveness. Studies have shown that technology self-efficacy is the most critical factor that determines utilization of any technology,  particularly for distance education students. Distance education students need effective support through mediated forms of interaction in form of flexible media, which necessitated the development of the POODLE mobile application learner management system at St. Paul’s university, Kenya. This study aimed at studying mobile phone self-efficacy and its utilization for learning with special reference to the use of POODLE application at St. Paul’s University.

Editor

Dr. Faustin Chongombe