Edith Stein
At a glance:
- Series: Dictionary of World Biography: Twentieth Century
- Categories: Women’s Issues, Philosophy, Religion, Ethics
- Subcategories: Philosophers, Christianity, Christians, Churches, Feminism, Feminists, Women’s Rights, Catholic Church, Catholics, Judaism, Jews, Synagogues, Temples, Monks, Nuns, Monasteries, Convents, Holocaust
- Curriculum: Women’s History, 20th & 21st Century European History, German History
Article abstract: Stein, a disciple of the phenomenologist Edmund Husserl, became herself a leading proponent of his method of philosophy. Alongside her spiritual evolution from Judaism to atheism to Catholicism, she tried, in her writings, to relate phenomenology to personalism, Thomism, the Catholic tradition on women, and the mystical theology of Saint John of the Cross.
Early Life
On the Day of Atonement, the tenth day of the seventh month (Tishri) in the Jewish calendar (October 12, 1891, in the Christian calendar), Edith Stein was born in Breslau....
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