The Faculty of Theology at Stellenbosch University is an ecumenical faculty. It provides facilities for the hosting and cultivating of Christian theology according to different confessional convictions and church traditions.

In order to maintain its ecumenical character, the faculty provides the capacity for the establishment of different Houses of Study. Within the Faculty different Houses of Study have the responsibility to provide training and theological education according to their own confessional and denominational needs. It is the responsibility of the faculty to synchronize the different Houses of Study in order to establish cooperation and unity, as well as the provision of personnel, programmes, student organizations, structures for training and the enhancement of a Christian spirituality. Within the faculty [US] the Kweekskool of the Dutch Reformed Church and the Theological School of the Uniting Reformed Church provides training and theological education in Christian Reformed Theology.