Assistant Professor of Theology — Undergraduate Ethics

FDLC; Pennsylvania; Hybrid; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Immaculata University invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Theology to shape a collaborative and distinctive educational vision. The successful candidate will teach undergraduates, contribute to a newly designed B.A.

in Theology grounded in Catholic intellectual tradition, and maintain an active scholarly agenda throughout a primarily teaching‑oriented institution. The department seeks a theologian with depth, openness to inquiry, and the ability to connect theology

Qualifications

• Ph.D. in a theological discipline; degree in hand by time of appointment.
• Demonstrated expertise in one or more of the theological areas identified above that complement department strengths.
• Broad theological formation and ability to teach across multiple areas of the undergraduate curriculum.
• Evidence of excellence in undergraduate teaching, or strong promise of teaching effectiveness for early-career candidates.
• Active scholarly agenda appropriate to career stage.
• Familiarity with the Catholic tradition’s moral wisdom for engagement with ethics and human flourishing.
• Commitment to the Catholic intellectual tradition and Immaculata University’s mission.
• Enthusiasm for teaching students from diverse backgrounds and varying preparation levels.
• Collaborative disposition to contribute to a shared departmental vision.

Responsibilities

• Teach across core theological areas as assigned, with curricular flexibility and shared program responsibility.
• Contribute to the redesigned B.A. in Theology and its delivery and culture.
• Maintain an active scholarly agenda and engage undergraduate education with scholarly inquiry.

Skills

Scripture interpretation

Christology

Fundamental theology

Theology & culture

Catholic social thought

Education

Ph.D. in theological discipline

Job description

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.

Areas of particular interest include:

• 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.

The Colleague We Seek

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 sciences, and professional fields. Because theology is primarily encountered through the core curriculum, the ability to communicate complex ideas with clarity, precision, and intellectual integrity is essential.

The Department seeks a colleague whose intellectual generosity, sound judgment, and collaborative spirit contribute positively to a small faculty committed to a shared educational mission.

Immaculata University is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply and will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.

• Ph.D. in a theological discipline within the Christian tradition; degree in hand by time of appointment
• Demonstrated expertise in one or more of the theological areas identified above that complement department strengths
• Broad theological formation and ability to teach across multiple areas of the undergraduate curriculum
• Evidence of excellence in undergraduate teaching, or for early-career candidates, strong promise of teaching effectiveness and commitment to undergraduate education
• Active scholarly agenda appropriate to career stage
• Familiarity with the moral wisdom of the Catholic tradition sufficient to support engagement with questions of ethics and human flourishing
• Commitment to the Catholic intellectual tradition and to the mission and identity of Immaculata University
• Enthusiasm for teaching students of diverse backgrounds and levels of preparation
• Collaborative disposition and willingness to contribute to a shared departmental vision

Preferred Requirements

• Ability to engage theology in conversation with other disciplines, including the sciences, humanities, social sciences, professional programs, or the arts
• Experience teaching or demonstrated capacity to teach courses engaging contemporary questions of meaning, vocation, human flourishing, and social responsibility
• Interest in student mentorship beyond the classroom
• Experience with or openness to online teaching

Additional Information

A background check is required after a conditional job offer is made. Consideration of the background check will be tailored to the requirements of the job.

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