Kristus ir Eucharistija: Dievo Veikla Išganymo Istorijoje

Kristus ir Eucharistija represents the maturation of Lithuanian Catholic theological writing in diaspora. Published nearly four decades after the Soviet occupation severed Lithuanian intellectual life from its institutional roots, this volume demonstrates that the émigré community sustained not merely devotional practice but serious academic theology in the Lithuanian language. The Krikščionis Gyvenime series, of which this is volume 15, constitutes one of the most sustained Lithuanian Catholic publishing ventures of the postwar era, with editorial contributors drawn from across North America and West Germany.

For the Žiburio archive and for the broader project of Lithuanian cultural documentation, this book is significant on multiple levels. It preserves mid-twentieth-century liturgical and theological thought—engaging post-Vatican II Eucharistic debates, comparative Eastern and Western liturgy, and salvation-history theology—entirely in Lithuanian, at a moment when such discourse was suppressed within Soviet Lithuania. It also documents the institutional network of diaspora Catholic life: the Putnam, CT press of the Sisters of the Immaculate Conception was a key node of Lithuanian-language production, and the editorial board names constitute a who's-who of Lithuanian Catholic intellectual leadership in exile.

Diaspora religious publishing: the Krikščionis Gyvenime book series sustained Lithuanian Catholic intellectual and theological culture outside Soviet-occupied Lithuania, providing doctrinally orthodox, linguistically Lithuanian scholarship to émigré communities in North America and Western Europe.