Faculty

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

Profile

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 and Book Chapters

• “Theology: the Art of Theological Interpretation, “ Theology: Faith, Beliefs and Traditions ( Dubuque, IA:  Kendall Hunt Publishing, 2009)
• “Ritual: Celebrating Faith and Belief,” Theology: Faith, Beliefs and Traditions (Dubuque, IA: Kendall Hunt Publishing, 2009)
• “The Eucharist: A Mystery to be Celebrated Full Participation in the Liturgical Action,” Pastoral Liturgy Vol. 39 (July/August 2008): 12-15
• “The Eucharist: Liturgy as Communal Ritual Action,” Pastoral Liturgy Vol. 39 (May/June 2008): 9-12.
• “Postmodernity, the New Faithful, and Challenges to Liturgical Ministry,” Liturgical Ministry 17 (Winter 2007) 30-38.
• with Richard S. Vosko Chapter Five - The Arrangement and Furnishing of Churches for the Celebration of the Eucharist: De Ecclesiarum Dispositione et Ornatu ad Eucharistiam Celebrandam,” A Commentary on the General Instruction of the Roman Missal 2002, 349 - 377 (Collegeville, MN: The Liturgical Press, 2007).
• Reception of the Eucharist Under Two Species,” Rite Vol. 38 No. 3 (May/June 2007): 8-12.
• “Dies Domini: The Sunday as a Prophetic Act of Meaning,” Rite Vol. 37 No. 3 (May/June 2006): 16-18.
• “When Liturgy Makes the Church: the RCIA Transforming a Campus,” Liturgical Ministry 15 (Spring 2006): 108-114.
• with Jorge Presmanes, “Preaching the Social Mission of the Church in the Hispanic/Latino Parish,” in Preaching the Teaching: Hispanics, Homiletics, and Catholic Social Justice Doctrine  (University of Scranton Press, 2005): 60-67.
• “No Neutral Zones: Hermeneutics and the Interpretation of Liturgical Space,” Liturgical Ministry 14 (Winter 2005): 1-7.
• “A Practical Liturgical Theology of the Word,” Liturgical Ministry 13 (Fall 2004): 192-199. 
• Reprint of “Evangelization, Inculturation and the RCIA,” Catechumenate: Journal of Christian Initiation Vol. 26:5 (September 2004): 2-19.
• “Recovering the Concilium Sanctorum: A Contemporary Ecclesiology Inclusive of the Communion of the Saints,” Liturgical Ministry 12 (Winter 2003): 1-8
• “The Shared Lens of Theologian and Visual Artist,” Chicago Studies Vol. 41:3 (Fall/Winter 2002):    259-267.
• “Evangelization, Inculturation and the RCIA,” Worship Vol. 76:6 (November 2002): 503-520.
• “Edifice and Image: Reform of the Roman Catholic Worship Environment,” New Theology Review Vol. 15:3 (August 2002): 5-15.
• “The Visual Hermeneutics of Hispanic/Latino Popular Religion and the Recovery of the Image in Christian Praxis,” Journal of Hispanic/Latino Theology  Vol. 8:3 (February 2001): 6-17.
• “The Defeat of Visual Aesthetic Arianism," in Source and Summit: Commemorating Josef A. Jungmann, SJ, 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 Éditions du Cerf (1927-1954)” US Catholic Historian 17:2 (Spring 1999): 106-115.