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One of the emerging shifts in the field of mission studies is the need to re-imagine global missiology in the light of societal and public shifts. There are several ongoing conversations about different ways missiology needs re-imagining but one that is crucial for our current context is the need to interrogate the proximity of mission to power. Jesus and his followers were on the other side of power as they lived under Roman imperial colonisation and this living on the margins of an out-post of an empire continued into the patristic period (early church history with Church Fathers) for many Christians. But the enthronement of Constantine as emperor of Rome (reigned AD 306-337) led to what I am describing as a Constantinian shift that had the implications of Jesus’ followers now on the side of power and colonisation. What is the impact of this Constantinian shift on the history of mission and what can we learn from Jesus’ kenotic living that prophetically challenges colonisation and religious nationalism? In this essay titled, Why did Jesus speak Aramaic? A Biblical Theology for a Decolonised Mission, I reflect on some of these issues proposing five marks of mission decolonised, that is, a suggestion of five critical things that Jesus embodied to interrogate power.
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