Theology Department Faculty
Ligita Ryliškytė, SJE
Assistant Professor
Ligita Ryliškytė, SJE
Ph.D.
Contact
Stokes Hall 413N
Telephone: 617-552-8279
Email: ligita.ryliskyte@bc.edu
Education
- M.D., Vilnius University
- M.A., Vilnius University
- Ph.D. in Medicine, Vilnius University
- S.T.L., Boston College
- Ph.D. in Systematic Theology, Boston College
Courses
- Incarnation, Kenosis, and Christian Discipleship
- Why the Cross?
- Trajectories in Contemporary Theology
- Called to Heal
- Theology and Science
- Methods in Theology: Mediating Between Culture and The Gospel
- Pastoral Care as Theological and Transformative Practice
- God, Self, and Society
- Engaging Catholicism
Research Interests
Christology, Soteriology, Theological Method, Bernard J. F.Lonergan, Theology of History, Biblical Theology
Biography
Dr. Ligita Ryliškytė, 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.
Publications
BOOKS
A New Exodus? Method and Theology Today. Co-edited with Jeremy D. Wilkins. Marquette University Press, 2025.
Why the Cross? Divine Friendship and the Power of Justice. Cambridge University Press, 2023.
ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS
“Theology and (or/from/above) Science.” Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science (2025).
“Analogically Re-Imagining Post-Anselmian Soteriology with Lonergan and Balthasar.” Irish Theological Quarterly (2025).
“Kenotic Solidarity in Discernment.” Religions (2024).
“Critical Realism: Tearing Down the Impenetrable Wall.” In Critical Realism and the Christian Scriptures, edited by Joseph K. Gordon. Marquette University Press, 2024.
“The New Creation in Christ as the Foundation of an Integral Ecology.” In The Foundations of Integral Ecology, edited by Paolo Conversi and Jacquineau Azitop, SJ. Gregorian and Biblical Press, 2022.
“The Promise of the Pandemic and the (Becoming) Totus Christus.” Theological Studies (2021).
“Conversion: Falling into Friendship Like No Other.” Theological Studies (2020).
“God’s Mercy: The Key Thematic Undercurrent of Paul’s Letter to the Romans.” The Catholic Biblical Quarterly (2019).
“Non-Communio Trinitarian Ecclesiology: Furthering Neil Ormerod’s Account.” Irish Theological Quarterly (2018).
“Metaphor and Analogy in Theology: A Choice between Lions and Witches, and Wardrobes?” Theological Studies (2017).
“Post-Gulag Christology: Contextual Considerations from a Lithuanian Perspective.” Theological Studies (2015).