Rev. Michael J. Scanlon, O.S.A.
has held the Josephine C. Connelly Chair in Christian Theology at Villanova
University since 1992. He is a Professor in the Department of Theology and
Religious Studies. A Past President of the Catholic Theological Society of
America, he received the doctorate in theology from the Catholic University of
America. He taught systematic theology at Augustinian College, Washington, D.C.
from 1965 to 1968. From 1968 to 1992 he was Professor of Systematic Theology at
the Washington Theological Union.
Fr. Scanlon has lectured
throughout the United States and Canada. He has published in the fields of
Fundamental and Systematic Theology and Augustinian Studies. His graduate course
offerings at Villanova include “The Doctrine of God,” “Christian Anthropology,”
and “Christian Eschatology.” His undergraduate offerings are “Christian
Anthropology” and “The Presence and Absence of God.”
Fr. Scanlon is Co-Sponsor with
Dr. James Wetzel of the “Religion and Postmodernism” international conferences
at Villanova. The papers from these conferences have been published by Indiana
University Press with Dr. John D. Caputo as co-editor: God, the Gift, and
Postmodernism (1999), Questioning God (2001), and Augustine and
Postmodernism (2005). The volume from the fourth conference,
Transcendence and Beyond, with the same co-editors has been accepted for
publication. A fifth conference has been planned for October of 2006 under the
title, Athens and Jerusalem on the Polis.
