David Fagerberg

Associate Professor
Department of Theology

Degrees

B.A., Augsburg College; M.Div., Luther Northwestern Seminary; M.A., St. John's University (Collegeville); S.T.M., Yale Divinity School; M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Yale University

Research Profile

Fagerberg's area is liturgical theology: its definition and methodology, sacramental theology, and liturgiology. His work has explored how the Church's lex credendi (law of belief) is grounded on the Church's lex orandi (law of prayer). Liturgy is the trysting place where God and humanity meet. Liturgical asceticism is the front on which he works now, seeing how liturgy, theology, and asceticism mutually interpenetrate. Additional interests include Eastern Orthodoxy, linguistic and scholastic philosophy, and G. K. Chesterton. Published books are What is Liturgical Theology? (Pueblo 1992), The Size of Chesterton's Catholicism (Notre Dame, 1998), and Theologia Prima: What is Liturgical Theology? the second edition (Hillenbrand Press, Fall 2003). His articles have appeared in such journals as Worship, America, New Blackfriars, Pro Ecclesia, Diakonia, Touchstone, and Antiphon. He was the Richardson Fellow at Durham University, U.K. in 1996 and is currently on the editorial board of the Chesterton Review, as well as a contributing editor to Gilbert Magazine.

Contact Information

339 Malloy Hall
631-4366
Fagerberg.1@nd.edu