Abstract
For many North Americans, as the Canadian author of this recently published study of the central themes of his work points out, Chenu remains to be discovered since so few of his essays and monographs have been translated into English. Marie Dominique Chenu, Dominican spiritual director, seminary rector and theologian for seven decades of the twentieth century, is one of the principle architects of such an integrated understanding of sacra doctrina. In and through this historical reality God chooses to be mediated by and present in, to and for creation. [...]God mediates Divine Presence by means of the events of human history, not from beyond or above it (as a deus ex machina or jus divinum, both docetic models, would have us think). [...]in the latter part of his career, Chenu's contemplation and writing turned more Pneumatocentric.