Le Saulchoir is a Dominican school of theology in the order's province of

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, established 1904. After the expulsion from France in 1880, French Dominican friars went into exile in Spain and Austria; they were allowed to return in 1895, establishing themselves in the convent of

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/ref> After the renewed expulsion in 1903, the Dominicans were exiled to Belgium, residing at Kain (now a part of

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). Here, they established a ''studium generale'' in 1904, in a former Cistercian abbey called ''Le Saulchoir''. From there, they published two journals, ''Revue des Sciences philosophiques et théologiques'' (from 1907) and the ''Bulletin thomiste'' (from 1924, not to be confused with ''Revue thomiste'', a neo-Thomist journal established in 1893). In 1939, the Dominicans were allowed back into

and they established themselves in

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where the ''Centre d'études du Saulchoir'' was established in 1992.

References

Marie-Dominique Chenu Marie-Dominique Chenu (; 7 January 1895, Soisy-sur-Seine, Essonne – 11 February 1990, Paris) was a progressive Catholic theologian and one of the founders of the reformist journal '' Concilium''. Early life Chenu was born on 7 January 1895 at ...

, ''Le Saulchoir, une école de théologie'' (1937, 2nd ed. 1985). * André Duval, « Aux origines de l'Institut historique d'études thomistes du Saulchoir », ''Revue des Sciences philosophiques et théologiques'', 1991.

External links

centre-saulchoir.org

centredusaulchoir.over-blog.com
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