Theology Department Faculty

Ligita Ryli拧kyt臈, SJE

Assistant Professor

Selected Publications

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.