About Shane Owens

Dr. Shane Owens is assistant professor of theology at Franciscan University of Steubenville. He earned his PhD at Catholic University, specializing in the theology of St. Augustine and the reception of the Bible. He taught at the Catholic University of America, the Dominican House of Studies, and Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady University before coming to the Franciscan University of Steubenville.

His writing appears in academic journals including Pro Ecclesia, the International Journal of Evangelization and Catechetics, and New Blackfriars. Owens frequently speaks on the biblical theology and spirituality of the Church’s Fathers and Doctors. A longtime friend and collaborator of the St. Paul Center and Dr. Scott Hahn, Owens has published a book with Emmaus Road Publishing entitled, Return to the Heart, addressing St. Augustine's spirituality in his Confessions. He and his lovely bride, Esther, raise their two children in Steubenville, Ohio.
 

Specialties

Biblical Theology 
St. Augustine of Hippo
Franciscan Tradition

Recent Publications

St. Augustine’s Confessions is the first autobiography in Western literature and a perennial classic of rhetoric, philosophy, and theology. It is also one man’s journey away from and back to God, finding himself along the way. And though Augustine’s sin and his desires for love, happiness, and peace are his own, in them we can recognize aspects of our own experience.

Return to the Heart: The Biblical Spirituality of St. Augustine’s Confessions invites readers to follow in the footsteps of an enduring spiritual master. Bringing St. Augustine’s wisdom to a new generation, Shane Owens reveals that it is only in the heart-to-heart encounter with God that we become whole and understand ourselves.