Assistant Professor of Theology; Immaculata University; Malvern, PA)

The Department of Theology invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor to help shape a distinctive and collaborative vision of theological education at Immaculata University. This position has an anticipated start in the Fall 2026 semester.

The Department offers a major and minor in Theology, and its courses serve the undergraduate liberal arts core curriculum. Most students the Department teaches are non-majors, arriving from every discipline with diverse backgrounds, questions, and levels of prior theological formation. The Department approaches this work with conviction: theological questions are among those every student at a Catholic university should have the opportunity to engage seriously.

The Department values teaching as a genuine vocation and places student formation — intellectual, moral, and spiritual — at the center of its work. At the same time, it seeks to make theology intellectually rigorous, accessible, and compelling for students encountering the discipline for the first time.

The successful candidate will bring expertise that complements and extends existing departmental strengths in theological ethics, theological anthropology, and Catholic social thought, as well as broader engagement with questions of human flourishing, culture, and public life.

• Scripture and theological interpretation
• Christology and systematic theology
• Fundamental theology and the dialogue between faith and modernity
• Spirituality and theological anthropology
• Theology’s engagement with culture, aesthetics, science, and religious diversity

Because the Department serves a broad undergraduate population, faculty must be prepared to teach across areas of theological study. Courses will be assigned in accordance with the candidate’s strengths, but curricular flexibility and shared responsibility for the full program are essential. All faculty share responsibility for the introductory theology course, which serves as the gateway to both the core curriculum and the major.

The Department is launching a redesigned B.A. in Theology grounded in the Catholic intellectual tradition, understood as a living tradition, and oriented toward fundamental questions about God and transcendence, meaning and truth, human dignity and identity, and human flourishing as they arise in the contemporary world. The successful candidate will serve as a key contributor to this program, shaping not only its delivery but its culture.

Immaculata faculty are expected to maintain an active scholarly agenda appropriate to their career stage and consistent with excellence in undergraduate education. As a primarily teaching-oriented institution, the University values scholarship that informs and enriches teaching and contributes meaningfully to disciplinary inquiry.

We seek a theologian capable of teaching from within the Catholic intellectual tradition with intellectual depth and openness to inquiry, modeling its confidence in the complementarity of faith and reason and the dignity of serious learning.

The successful candidate will bring a pedagogy attentive to the formation of the whole person, cultivating imagination and interiority alongside critical thinking, and helping students engage questions of meaning, vocation, human flourishing, and responsibility for the common good with seriousness and depth. This includes the ability to engage students who are often encountering theology for the first time in a way that is intellectually serious without being inaccessible.

We are especially interested in a colleague who can demonstrate theology’s contemporary relevance and place it in conversation with other disciplines, including the humanities, sciences, social…