Timo Güzelmansur
Christlich-islamische begegnungs - und dokumentationsstelle, CIBEDO Christlich-islamische begegnungs - und dokumentationsstelle, CIBEDOGermany
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Timo Güzelmansur

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Born in 1977 in Turkey, Timo Güzelmansur is director (Geschäftsführer) of CIBEDO (Christlich-Islamische Begegnungs- und Dokumentationsstelle), the German Bishops’ Conference’s centre for Christian-Muslim encounter and documentation, in Frankfurt am Main. Since January 2024, he has also headed the Round Table of Religions in Germany (Runder Tisch der Religionen in Deutschland).

He studied from 2000 to 2005 at the Faculty of Catholic Theology of the University of Augsburg (Germany) and at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. He then served as personal advisor to the Bishop of Anatolia until the summer of 2006, in Turkey. Following doctoral studies from 2006 to 2011 at the Sankt Georgen Graduate School of Philosophy and Theology in Frankfurt am Main, he obtained his doctorate in dogmatics with a thesis entitled “God and Man in the Teaching of the Anatolian Alevis: A Systematic-Theological Reflection from a Christian Perspective”.

Alongside his doctoral studies, he has worked since October 2006 at CIBEDO, first as a consultant for Islam in its Turkish form, before being appointed its director by the German Bishops’ Conference in 2012. Since February 2020, he has been, among other roles, a member of the subcommission for the religious relations of the Catholic Church with Muslims, which is part of the Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue (Vatican).

Disciplines

Theology

Topics

Islamic Theology

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Catholic Theology in dialogue with Islam (Frankfurt)

Catholic theology in Europa is more and more confronted by questions and critic of Muslim intellectuals who, simultaneously and offensively, claim for commonalities of both religions. The research project is targeted to perceive this new context of theology, to analyze it diacritically, and to reformulate the potentials of Christian tradition. Katholische Theologie in Europa sieht sich zunehmend Anfragen und Kritik seitens muslimischer Intellektueller, aber auch mit offensiv formulierten Gemeinsamkeiten beider Rel…

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