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What potential does the notion of uncertainty offer for the Christian mission? Based on the spiritual experience of our relationship with God and the world, perceived either as a threat or as a window of opportunity, we identify three complementary types of mission: the affirmation of faith in the face of uncertainty, transmission in spite of uncertainty, and research in the midst of uncertainty. Uncertainty allows freedom and openness to the unknown, which characterizes truth, in both philosophy and theology. But unlike philosophical doubt, and opposed to relativism, uncertainty in the Christian mission makes it possible to meet contemporaries who are perhaps waiting for a word that is at once convincing, transforming, and in dialogue, that reaches out to them in their freedom and their aspirations, while at the same time moving them. Certainty does not allow being open to the event of a new word. It is because there is uncertainty that one can risk and welcome a word. Discipline: THEOLOGY