Marie-Dominique Chenu

Marie-Dominique Chenu, 1970

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

With Yves Congar , Jean Daniélou and Henri de Lubac, Chenu was one of the main exponents of Nouvelle Théologie .

Life

Chenu was from 1920 to 1942 professor for the history of Christian teaching at the religious college Le Saulchoir of the Dominican order province of France (until 1939 in the Belgian Cain near Tournai and then at its new location in Étiolles near Paris ). After his book Une école de théologie: Le Saulchoir , in which he published his ideas on the renewal of theology in 1937, was indexed in 1942 , he was banned from teaching at the religious college and was dismissed as rector. Chenu then taught medieval history at the Sorbonne from 1947 and at the Institut Catholique in Paris from 1953 .

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

At the Second Vatican Council , Chenu was an adviser and one of the initiators of the Council's message for the world.

In the LThK, Duval honors him as “sensitive to the new in the teachings of John XXIII. and Paul VI. "And describes him as a vigilant observer" of social processes in the modern world. "

Honorable recognition

The Dominican Association “ESPACES - Spirituality, Cultures and Society in Europe” has been running the M.-Dominique Chenu Institute in Berlin on Schwedter Strasse as a philosophical and theological research center since 2000 , where it publishes, among other things, writings by and in the Collection Chenu series about Chenu out. In 2004, Chenu was posthumously awarded an honorary doctorate from the Theological Faculty of the University of Tübingen after he had rejected it in the 1940s so that the Tübingen faculty should not have any problems with the Vatican.

Works

La théologie comme science au XIII ^e siècle. 1927
Une école de théologie: Le Saulchoir. 1937 (German: Le Saulchoir: a school of theology. Berlin 2003 ISBN 3-87554-365-3 )
Introduction à l'étude de saint Thomas d'Aquin. 1954 (German: The work of St. Thomas Aquinas . 1960; reprint 1982 ISBN 3-222-11386-6 )
S. Thomas d'Aquin et la théologie. 1959 (German: Thomas von Aquin / with personal testimonies and picture documents. Rowohlt: Reinbek ⁹ 2001 ISBN 3-499-50045-0 )

literature

On the freedom of a theologian: Marie-Dominique Chenu in conversation with Jacques Duquesne. Mainz: Matthias-Grünewald-Verl. 2005 ISBN 3-7867-2564-0
André Duval: Chenu, Marie-Dominique. In: LThK ³ Vol. 2, sp. 1034

Web links

Literature by and about Marie-Dominique Chenu in the catalog of the German National Library
Ulrich Engel: Posthumous honorary doctorate from M.-D. Chenu OP ( Memento from October 15, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 20 kB)
Institute M. Dominique Chenu

Remarks

↑ www.institut-chenu.eu . December 28, 2015.
↑ Ulrich Engel: Posthumous honorary doctorate from M.-D. Chenu OP ( Memento from October 15, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 20 kB) . ESPACES website. Retrieved May 20, 2010.

personal data
SURNAME	Chenu, Marie-Dominique
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Chenu, Marcel; Chenu, Marie Dominique
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French Catholic theologian
DATE OF BIRTH	January 10, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH	Soisy-sur-Seine
DATE OF DEATH	February 11, 1990
Place of death	Paris

[1] www.institut-chenu.eu . December 28, 2015.

[2] Ulrich Engel: Posthumous honorary doctorate from M.-D. Chenu OP ( Memento from October 15, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 20 kB) . ESPACES website. Retrieved May 20, 2010.