The Eucharist according to the Gospel of John Conference This is the first of four conferences on the Eucharistic mystery, the most important sacrament of the Church, which is celebrated during every mass. The first speaker will be the bishop of Istanbul, mons. Massimiliano Palinuro.Mons. Palinuro holds a doctorate in Biblical Studies from the Pontifical …
For a Theology from the Mediterranean A Theological Manifesto Dear Friends, Just a year ago, a journey of reflection began between cultural centres working in contact with and in reference to the Mediterranean sea, as a space of cultural, religious and economic cross-fertilisation. This initial process of getting to know each other led to the …
Intereligious Dialogue In an Age of Volcanoes and Refugees In this conference we would like to rediscover why fraternal encounter with people from far-off lands is so important today. We’ll try to sketch the shape of Christian-Muslim relations as they were for the first decade or so of this century. Then, we’d explore some of …
Gregory of Nazianzus and the question of the divinity of the Holy Spirit Elif Tokay teaches History of Religions at University of İstanbul. İn 2013 she gained her Phd. at the University of Cardiff with a thesis on arab translations of Gregory of Nazianzus’s homilies. İn 2021 she published the first book in Turkish on Gregory, …
Close Encounters A 1622 Jesuit’s Translation of the Quran The manuscript Animadversiones, Notae ac Disputationes in Pestilentem Alcoranum is an almost entirely unknown translation of the Qur’an into baroque Latin completed by the Jesuit priest Ignazio Lomellini in 1622, of which only one copy exists. It is accompanied by extensive commentaries and includes a complete …
This event has been cancelled! A lectio by Msgr. Paolo Bizzeti, S.J. Msgr. Paolo has not only been the Apostolic Vicar of Anatolia, a dioceses which includes Antioch and Tarsus, since 2015, but he also possesses a profound knowledge of Turkey’s biblical history. In 2008 he published a commentary on the Acts of the Apostles …
