Four new graduate students
February-March 2008
Four of our students have successfully completed their academic curriculum at our Institute obtaining the Licentiate in Theology specializing in Ecumenical Studies.
On the 28th of February, Lazzaro Aziz and Pietro Chiaranz passed their final examination. Br. Lazzaro defended his thesis titled Opinions of Muslims about the Collation of the Qu'ran. From his work we gather that, in the course of history, the Koran has not always been read in an integralistic and monolithic interpretation. On the contrary, some schools of thought developed a critical reading of the text, enhancing the manifold richness of the Koran. This approach should be reclaimed because it could open the way to dialogue within the various Koranic schools and also towards the Christian oecumene.
Pietro Chiaranz's work, on the other hand, analysed the homilies of the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I on conservation of creation, verifying their patristic and Ecumenical value, thus demonstrating that ecology and Ecumenism are two aspects considered particularly important and cared for in the Patriarchs activity.
On the 6th of March, it was Don Prosper Lombadisha's turn. His thesis was titled Confessional pluralism in R.D.Congo. Perspectives on an inclusive local Ecumenism. As indicated by the title, the research discussed the concrete Congolese ecclesiastical situation to demonstrate the necessity of an inclusive Ecumenical dialogue aiming at promoting an enriching life in common among the diverse Christian confessions in the Congo.
Finally, on the 7th of March, Baggi Ezio presented a voluminous research with the title Pastorality and Ecumenical sensibility of Cardinal Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, Patriarch of Venice (1953-1958). His work fills a gap in the knowledge of Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli's Ecumenical sensitivity and provides the few, although important, events which usually are taken into consideration, but above all underlining the pathway of maturation especially regarding the theme of Church unity which shaped, since the beginning, Pope John XXIII's pastoral choices.
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