Stokes Hall 423N
Telephone: 617-552-8279
Email: ligita.ryliskyte@bc.edu
God, Self, and Society
Engaging Catholicism
Pastoral Care as Theological & Transformative Practice
Methods in Theology: Mediating between Culture and the Gospel
Christology, Soteriology, Theological Method, Bernard J. F.Lonergan, Theology of History, Biblical Theology
Dr. Ligita Ryli拧kyt臈, SJE, Assistant Professor in Systematic Theology, is a native of Lithuania and a member of an Ignatian community, the Sisters of the Eucharistic Jesus. Her research primarily focuses on the contemporary questions in Christology and soteriology, and on the theological method.
Why the Cross? Divine Friendship and the Power of Justice. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023. ISBN 9781009202787
鈥淭heological Method on the Edge: Interdisciplinarity and Communications,鈥 in A New Exodus? Method and Theology Today, co-edited by Ligita Ryli拧kyt臈 and Jeremy Wilkins (in progress);
鈥淐ritical Realism: Tearing Down the Impenetrable Wall,鈥 in Critical Realism and the Christian Scriptures: Foundations and Applications, edited by Joseph K. Gordon (forthcoming);
鈥淭he New Creation in Christ as the Foundation of an Integral Ecology.鈥 In聽The Foundations of Integral Ecology, edited by Paolo Conversi and Jacquineau Azitop SJ, 521鈥542. Rome: Gregorian and Biblical Press, 2022. EAN: 9788878394797. ISBN: 8878394793.
鈥淭he Promise of the Pandemic and the (Becoming) Totus Christus.鈥澛Theological Studies 82, no. 3 (2021): 464鈥486, .
鈥淐onversion: Falling into Friendship Like No Other.鈥 Theological Studies 81, no. 2 (2020): 370鈥393, https://doi.org/10.1177/0040563920931757.
鈥淕od鈥檚 Mercy: The Key Thematic Undercurrent of Paul鈥檚 Letter to the Romans.鈥 The Catholic Biblical Quarterly 81, no. 1 (2019): 85鈥105, ;
鈥淚ntellectual and Ethical Development as a Means for Evangelization: The Role of Women Religious.鈥 Asian Horizons 12, no. 1 (2018): 79鈥92;
鈥淣on-Communio Trinitarian Ecclesiology: Furthering Neil Ormerod鈥檚 Account.鈥 Irish Theological Quarterly 83, no. 2 (2018): 107鈥27, ;
鈥淢etaphor and Analogy in Theology: A Choice between Lions and Witches, and Wardrobes?鈥 Theological Studies 78, no. 3 (2017): 696鈥717, ;
鈥淧ost-Gulag Christology: Contextual Considerations from a Lithuanian Perspective.鈥 Theological Studies 76, no. 3 (2015): 468鈥484, ;
鈥淭he Women of the Gulags and Nelson鈥檚 Paradigms of Evil: Becoming a Sign of Hope against All Hope.鈥 in And God will Wipe away all Tears from their Eyes. A Theological Approach to the Suffering and Hopes of Women, edited by Jadranka Rebeka Ani膰, Ana Thea Filipovi膰, Katica Knezovi膰, Lynette 艩iki膰-Mi膰anovi膰, 101鈥116. Zagreb: Ivo Pilar Institute of Social Sciences, 2013. ISBN: 978-953-6666-98-0;
鈥淒ialogue with the Radically Other: Models of Discernment in the Old Testament.鈥 Review for Religious 71, no. 1 (2012): 86鈥99;
鈥淪piritual Freedom as Liberation within: Lessons from the Gulag Era.鈥澛The Way 50, no. 2 (2011): 37鈥49.