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Mark E. Wedig, OP, PhD Associate Dean for Graduate Studies, College of Arts and Sciences Professor of Theology, Liturgical and Sacramental Theology Chair, Theology and Philosophy Department mwedig@mail.barry.edu

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Mark E. Wedig, OP, PhD, Associate Dean for Graduate Studies, College of Arts and Sciences, Chair and Professor of Theology, is a Dominican Friar of the Province of St. Martin de Porres (Southern Province). Rev. Wedig's academic background is as follows: the B.A. in History/Medieval Studies from Southern Methodist University; the Master of Divinity and M.A. in Theology from the Graduate Theological Union; and the  PhD from the Catholic University of America.

As a teacher and scholar of theology, Rev. Wedig's interests lie in the areas of liturgy, sacramental theology and the hermeneutics of the visual arts.

Articles:

• "Dies Domini: The Sunday as a Prophetic Act of Meaning, " Rite 37:3 (May/June 2006): 16-18.
• "When Liturgy Makes the Church: The RCIA Transforming a Campus," Liturgical Ministry 15 (Spring 2006): 108-114.
• “No Neutral Zones: Hermeneutics and the Interpretation of Liturgical Space,” Liturgical Ministry 14 (Winter 2005).
• "A Practical Theology of the Word," Liturgical Ministry 13 (Fall 2004): 192-199.
• “Recovering the Concilium Sanctorum: A Contemporary Ecclesiology Inclusive of the Communion of Saints,” Liturgical Ministry 12 (Winter 2003).
• “Evangelization, Inculturation, and the R.C.I.A.,” Worship 76:6 (November 2002).
• "Edifice and Image: Reform of the Catholic Worship Environment,” New Theology Review 15:3 (August 2002).

Rev. Wedig's publications include:

• The Defeat of Visual Aesthetic Arianism," in Source and Summit: Commemorating Josef A. Jungmann, S.J. , Joanne Pierce, Michael Downey, editors, Collegeville: The Liturgical Press, 1999, 211-224.
• "The Fraternal Context of Congar's Achievement: The Platform for a Renewed Catholicism at Les Editions du Cerf (1927-1954)" US Catholic Historian 17:2 (Spring 1999): 106-115.
• Edifice and Image: Reform of the Catholic Worship Environment," New Theology Review 15:3 (August 2002).
• "Evangelization, Inculturation, and the R.C.I.A.,"  Worship 76:6 (November 2002).
• "The Shared Lens of Theologian and Visual Artist," Chicago Studies 41:3 (Fall/Winter 2002): 259-267.
• "Recovering the Concilium Sanctorum: A Contemporary Ecclesiology Inclusive of the Communion of Saints," Liturgical Ministry 12 (Winter 2003).
• "A Practical Theology of the Word," Liturgical Ministry 13 (Fall 2004): 192-199.
• "No Neutral Zones: Hermeneutics and the Interpretation of Liturgical Space," Liturgical Ministry 14 (Winter 2005).
• "When Liturgy Makes the Church: The RCIA Transforming a Campus," Liturgical Ministry 15 (Spring 2006): 108-114.
• "Dies Domini: The Sunday as a Prophetic Act of Meaning, " Rite 37:3 (May/June 2006): 16-18.