If the first five hundred years after the Reformation was about the democratization of our faith, then the work of the next five hundred years will be its decolonization. The Protestant Reformation was a particular event, in particular space, at a particular time, addressing particular issues that arose within a particular geographical, historical, and geopolitical context. The Reformation flowed from the lineage of Constantine—the state-based imperial European church. The Roman Church flowed from the Roman Empire, an arguably White supremacist empire. At the heart of the Roman Empire was the
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