Marie dominique chenu biography of martin luther
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Chenu, Marie-Dominique
Dominican theologian and medievalist; b. Soisy-sur-Seine, France, Jan. 7, 1895; d.
Marie dominique chenu biography of martin luther
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. Assigned to teach theology at Le Saul choir (1920), he at once set himself the task of replacing what he took to be the non-historical exposition of the Thomist system (see thomism) by his teacher in Rome, R.
garrigou-lagrange with a reading of Thomas Aquinas in his historical context. His first essay in historical reconstruction of an Aquinas text (1923) was followed by many others, eventually collected in La Parole de Dieu I—La foi dans l'intelligence (Paris 1964).
His notes toward a medieval philosophical lexicography (never completed), as well as his research on minor figures such as Robert Kilwardby, soon established him as a respected mediev