Marie-Dominique Chenu

Marie -Dominique Chenu OP ( born January 10, 1895 in Soisy -sur -Seine, † 11 February 1990 in Paris; native Marcel Chenu ) was a French Catholic theologian.

Chenu belonged to Yves Congar, Henri de Lubac and Jean Daniélou of the main representatives of the Nouvelle Théologie.

Life

Chenu was from 1920 to 1942 professor of the history of Christian teaching at the university of his order Saulchoir the Dominican Province of the Order France (until 1939 in the Belgian Cain at Tournai and then at their new location in Étiolles in Paris). After 1942 his book Une école de théologie: Saulchoir in which he had in 1937 published his ideas about the renewal of theology, had come to the Index, he had banned from teaching at the university of his order and was deposed as rector. Chenu then taught from 1947 at the Sorbonne, and from 1953 at the Institut Catholique in Paris medieval history.

In 1930 he founded, together with Etienne Gilson, the Institute for Medieval Studies, Ottawa. Also, because of its commitment to the worker priests he had to suffer in 1954 from the Vatican sanctions and then lived until 1963 in Rouen.

At the Second Vatican Council Chenu served as a consultant and one of the initiators of the Council's message to the world.

Duval honors him in LThK as " sensitive for the New in the teachings of John XXIII. and Paul VI. " and called him a watchful observer " of the social processes in the modern world. "

Worthy end recognition

The association " ESPACES - spirituality, cultures and society in Europe " of the Dominicans maintains in Berlin since 2000, the institute M. -Dominique Chenu as philosophical and theological research center and there are, among others in the series Collection Chenu out writings by and about Chenu. 2004 Chenu was posthumously awarded an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Theology of the University of Tübingen, after he had rejected in the 1940s, so that the Tübingen Faculty should avoid difficulties with the Vatican.

Comments

Works

• La théologie comme science au XIIIe siècle. 1927
• Une école de théologie: Saulchoir. 1937 ( Eng.: Saulchoir: a school of theology Berlin 2003 ISBN 3-87554-365-3. )
• Introduction à l' étude de saint Thomas d'Aquin. 1954 ( Eng.:. . The work of St. Thomas Aquinas, 1960; reprint 1982 ISBN 3-222-11386-6 )
• S. Thomas d'Aquin et la théologie. 1959 ( Eng.: Thomas Aquinas / Self Certification and image documents Rowohlt. Reinbek 92001 ISBN 3-499-50045-0 )