BILYCHNIS

BILYCHNIS. - Monthly journal of religious studies, published in Roma from 1912 to 1930 (its emblem, the b., a Roman catacomb lamp with a double wick and a bifurcated flame, was intended to symbolize the union of faith and science). Promoted by the theological faculty of the Baptist seminary, it was always published under the name of the director Ludovico Paschetto and of the foreign editor D. B. Whittinghill, but the actual editor, especially in the last decade, was Giovanni Costa (born Catholic and never converted to Protestantism). Its contributors were eclectic, and it opened its pages with great breadth to writers of various orientations: Protestants of different denominations, modernists, Israelites, and independent lay scholars. B. thus went beyond the limits of confessionalism; but it echoed doctrinal controversies, often in heated tones. Under the same name of B., a publishing house issued various publications.