The Department of Theology and Religious Studies is an academic faculty within the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Villanova University, a University with a Roman Catholic and Augustinian heritage. We place special significance on the study of the Christian traditions in general, and Roman Catholicism in particular, while emphasizing the meaning and values of religion and religious traditions in an ecumenical context.
Our Mission
Engage in the restless search for meaning • Understand Christian theology to be "faith seeking understanding" • Nurture a historical consciousness
Our Augustinian Tradition
Doing theology within the Augustinian tradition • Faith engaging culture • Knowing infused with care and love
