Mehmet Ciftci

Dr Mehmet Ciftci is the Public Bioethics Fellow for the Anscombe Bioethics Centre in Oxford, whilst also serving the McDonald Centre as a Research Assistant. Previously he was Étienne Gilson Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Toronto. After undergraduate studies at the University of Manchester, he received the PGDip, MPhil, and DPhil in Theology from the University of Oxford. His doctoral research, under the supervision of Prof. Hordern, about the Second Vatican Council's teaching on church-state relations is contracted to be published soon with Palgrave Macmillan. He has published widely in academic journals on various subjects, such as liberation theology, the Qur’an, the critique of political ideologies, and Mariology. He conducts research for the Anscombe Centre on conscientious objection and assisted suicide, whilst also being interested in the historic impact of Christianity on the development of constitutionalism. 

More information about his publications can be found here and here. 

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