@inbook{10.2307/j.ctt163t8tt.6, ISBN = {9781922239167}, URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt163t8tt.6}, abstract = {Marie-Dominique Chenu was an extraordinary figure in many ways. His long life (1895–1990) allowed him to sow ideas across several generations. He not only mastered his chosen field of history but also influenced the cognate areas of dogmatic and pastoral theology. With a warm personality and generous heart he reached out to a range of colleagues and friends from the erudite to the unsophisticated. One author claims, ‘It would be very difficult to write an accurate history of twentieth-century Catholicism without granting a pivotal role to the contributions of French theologian Marie-Dominique Chenu’.¹ He was the friend and colleague}, author = {JEAN-PIERRE JOSSUA}, bookauthor = {Thomas F O’Meara and Paul Philibert}, booktitle = {Scanning the Signs of the Times}, pages = {19--41}, publisher = {ATF (Australia) Ltd.}, title = {M-D Chenu: Situating Theology in History}, year = {2013} }