The departmental mission recognizes that the academic study of theology is essential to a complete education. With this conviction as the basis for its mission, the theology faculty pursues the following goals:

(a) to think the faith in teaching, research, and scholarship,

(b) to study Catholic theology in faithfulness to its sources and to the Church's experience of the faith as it is lived in service of the Gospel amid the questions and challenges of the contemporary world and to also bring this inquiry into dialogue with other Christian traditions and into interreligious dialogue with the world's religions, especially Judaism,

(c) to acknowledge the human search for meaning and seek to examine this fact with a religious framework so as to place Catholic theology in communion with that quest,

(d) to prepare students to seriously consider the spiritual dimension of life and to develop competence in the basics of theological method, thought, and study,

(e) to aspire to a fruitful encounter with other university studies because the Department believes that theology's concerns are related to all human interests, including the interaction of faith with culture and the struggle for peace and social justice.

For more information regarding course and program offerings, please refer to the Arts & Sciences Division of the Undergraduate Catalog.