Rev. Michael J.Scanlon, O.S.A. holds 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. He is a Past President of the Catholic Theological Society
of America (1988).1969 - S.T.D. ("Doctor of Sacred Theology") from the Catholic
University of America 1965-68 - taught Systematic Theology at Augustinian College,
Washington, D.C. 1968-92 - Professor of Systematic Theology at the Washington Theological
Union, a graduate school of theology founded by several religious communities (the
Augustinians, the Franciscans, the Carmelites and others); Fr. Scanlon was among the
founders.
Fr. Scanlon has lectured throughout the United States and Canada. He has published in
the fields of Fundamental and Systematic Theology and Augustinian Studies. He teaches both
the Ancient, Medieval, and Renaissance Thought and the Modern and Contemporary Thought
courses in the Core Humanities Program. His graduate courses at Villanova include
"Christian Anthropology," "Christian Eschatology," and
"Postmodernism and Theology."
Fr. Scanlon is Co-Sponsor with Dr. John D. Caputo of the "Postmodernism and
Religion" Conferences at Villanova. Papers from the first Conference (1997) have been
published by Indiana University Press with Caputo and Scanlon as co-editors; papers from
the second Conference (1999) will be published in the fall of 2000. A third Conference is
being planned for 2001 with focus on Jacques Derrida’s Circumfessions and St.
Augustine’s Confessions.
