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Record Nr.

UNINA9910819572203321

Autore

Borden Sarah R.

Titolo

Edith Stein / / Sarah Borden

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, [England] ; ; New York, [New York] : , : Continuum, , 2003

©2003

ISBN

1-281-78388-9

9786611783884

0-8264-3191-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (166 p.)

Collana

Outstanding Christian Thinkers

Disciplina

271.97102

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Editorial Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; 1 Life and Writings; 2 Phenomenology and the Person; 3 Social and Political Writings; 4 Woman and Women's Education; 5 Christian Philosophy; 6 Metaphysics and Epistemology of the Later Work; 7 Spiritual Writings; 8 Edith Stein since her Death: The Jewish-Catholic Dialogue; Select Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Edith Stein was beatified in 1987 and canonized in 1998 but is still relatively unknown in the English-speaking world. She provides an example of a Christian thinker deeply engaged in the debates of her own day, and her work offers models and insights for addressing the questions of the twenty-first century.Sarah Borden presents an overview of St Edith Stein's life and thought, beginning with her biography. She then covers her early work in phenomenology, her political writings, her studies on women and women's education, as well her later turn to medieval metaphysics, and spiritual and religi