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Marie-Dominique Chenu OP (French pronunciation: [maʁi dɔminik ʃəny]; 7 January 1895, Soisy-sur-Seine, Essonne – 11 February 1990, Paris) was a Catholic theologian and one of the founders of the reformist journal Concilium.
Marie-Dominique Chenu, de son vrai nom Marcel Léon Émile Chenu 1, né le 7 janvier 1895 à Soisy-sur-Seine (France) et mort le 11 février 1990 à Paris 13e, est un prêtre dominicain, proche du mouvement des prêtres ouvriers. Fondateur du néothomisme, il est également connu comme l'un des experts en théologie ( peritus) du concile Vatican II .
CHENU, MARIE-DOMINIQUE Dominican theologian and medievalist; b. Soisy-sur-Seine, France, Jan. 7, 1895; d. 1990. After entering the Dominican Order (1913) at Le Saul choir, then in Belgium, he was forced by the outbreak of war to study in Rome (1914–20) at what is now called the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas.
MARIE-DOMINIQUE CHENU Marie-Dominique Chenu, the French Dominican and Thomist scholar, celebrated his ninetieth birthday in 1985. In the English-speaking Catholic world there was a brief flutter of praise and then silence once again. Of the major theologians of Vatican II Father Chenu seems to be among those most forgotten.
St. Thomas Aquinas ; canonized July 18, 1323; feast day January 28, formerly March 7) was an Italian Dominican theologian, the foremost medieval Scholastic. He developed his own conclusions from Aristotelian premises, notably in the metaphysics of personality, creation, and Providence.
Jun 1, 2002 · In Aquinas and His Role in Theology, Marie Dominique Chenu provides a lively and representative overview of the life and writings of the thirteenth-century theologian whom many consider to be the greatest master of Catholic religious thought.
This chapter examines the contribution of Marie‐Dominique Chenu, OP (1895‐1990), as the precursor of the ressourcement theology which led to the reforms of Vatican II. Chenu was crucial in the historical retrieval of theological sources which led to the nouvelle théologie.
