Mehmet Ciftci

Dr. M. Y. Ciftci is the Public Bioethics Fellow at the Anscombe Bioethics Centre and a research assistant at the McDonald Centre in the University of Oxford’s Faculty of Theology & Religion. He has recently published his first monograph with Palgrave on Vatican II and church-state relations. Follow him on Twitter/X @mehmet_y_c.

September 18, 2024
Education & Culture, The Human Person

September 18, 2024
Book Reviews, Classical Education, Culture, Literature

A Spiritual Aeneid

By Mehmet Ciftci

Readers will find in this book an insightful and witty commentary, suitable both for the serious student of the poem and for the layman reading it in translation. If it encourages anyone to read Virgil with fresh eyes or for the first time, it will have served its purpose.

September 12, 2024
Education & Culture, Politics & Law

September 12, 2024
Catholicism, Christianity, Culture, Institutions, Interviews, Politics, Religion

Across the Divide: M. Ciftci and Nathaniel Peters on Vatican II, Church–State Relations, and Political Participation

By Nathaniel Peters and Mehmet Ciftci

Christians should always make the best of any pragmatic agreements they can find with non-Christians on any issue. But the evangelical reasons why we support, for instance, constitutional government should be made clear, not veiled in embarrassment by translating them into the idiom of natural law or human dignity out of a misguided concern to avoid blurring the boundaries between political and religious affairs.

May 21, 2024
Politics & Law, The Human Person

May 21, 2024
Assisted Suicide, Human Dignity

Is the Fight against Assisted Dying a Lost Cause?

By Mehmet Ciftci

Canada’s infamy has led many to rethink their support for assisted dying, no matter how strong the purported safeguards may be.

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