Biography:
After completing his DPhil at Oxford, Dr Mehmet Ciftci became the Étienne Gilson Postdoctoral Fellow at St. Michael’s College in the University of Toronto. On returning to the UK, he took up a post at the University of Oxford as a Research Assistant at the McDonald Centre in the Faculty of Theology and Religion, and was also the Public Bioethics Fellow at the Anscombe Bioethics Centre, Oxford. He is now the Custodian of the Library at Pusey House. 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 recently published a monograph entitled Vatican II on Church-State Relations: What Did the Council Teach, and What's Wrong With It? (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024). His future research will be on the theological origins of constitutionalism.
Specific Research Interests:
Political theology; church-state relations; constitutionalism; Marxian political economy; liturgical studies.
Educational Background:
BA (Hons) Social Sciences (First), University of Manchester, 2015.
PGDip Theology (Distinction), Blackfriars, University of Oxford, 2016.
MPhil Theology (Distinction), Trinity College, University of Oxford, 2018.
DPhil Theology, Trinity College, University of Oxford, 2021. Funded by the AHRC and the Farrer-Woodruffe Scholarship at Trinity College.
Links:
https://oxford.academia.edu/MehmetCiftci
https://x.com/PuseyHouseLib
