BILYCHNIS. - Monthly review of religious studies, published in Rome from 1912 to 1930 (the emblem, the b., lamp of the Roman catacombs with a double wick and a bipartite flame, was meant to symbolize the union of faith and science). Promoted by the theological faculty of the seminary of the Baptists, it was always published under the name of the director Ludovico Paschetto and of the editor for abroad D. B. Whittinghill, but the actual editor, especially in the last decade, was Giovanni Costa (born Catholic and never converted to Protestantism). The collaboration was eclectic, opening with every latitude to writers of various orientations: Protestants of different denominations, modernists, Jews, independent lay scholars. B. thus went beyond the limits of confessionalism; but it echoed, often in a heated tone, doctrinal polemics. Under the same name of B., a publishing house issued various publications.

Bibliography

BIBL.: P. Chiminelli, Bibliografia della storia della Riforma religiosa in Italia, Rome 1921, p. 272.

Piero Chiminelli

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