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Ludovico Battista (PhD, Sapienza University of Rome) is a researcher at Sapienza University of Rome. He deals with the history of Christianity and the critical relationship between theology and philosophy. His interests focus on the problem of secularization and the genesis of modernity, on the Renaissance and the period of the Reformation (with specific attention to Erasmus and his reception in Italy), on the question of political theology since the early Christianity and the patristic reflection. Among his publications: Hans Blumenberg e l’autodistruzione del cristianesimo, Viella, Roma, 2021; and Le ragioni della religione. Mito, modernità e secolarizzazione in H. Blumenberg and J. Habermas, Lithos, Roma, 2021.

Maria Fallica (Ph. D., Sapienza University of Rome) is a Post-Doc researcher at Sapienza University of Rome. Her research interests lie in the reception of the Fathers of the Church in the modern age, the history of the Reformations, the Italian Reformation of the 16th century, the history of methodism. Her most recent publications are The Protestant Origen. Polemical Use and Theological Appropriation of Origen in 16th Century Patristic Anthologies, Aschendorff, Münster, 2022 and Il metodismo via media della Riforma. Progresso e tradizione nella Christian Library di Wesley, Carocci, Roma, 2022.

Beatrice Tramontano’s (PhD., Sapienza University of Rome) research deals with the topic of multiculturalism in the Western liberal democraticies, with a focus on the comparison of the philosophical theories of Charles Taylor and Jürgen Habermas, and focusing on certain aspects of multicultural societies such as religious pluralism, the relationship between religions and public space, secularization and post-secularism, and the question of recognition and individual and collective rights within the liberal-democratic normative system. She has published articles on the developments and critiques of the multicultural model by interculturalism, postcolonial studies and feminist theory as well as the relationship between multiculturalism and immigration in European societies.