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Edith Stein

Jewish-German Catholic nun, theologian and philosopher (1891-1942) · Germany · Academics · Died at 50

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A philosopher who studied under Husserl, converted from Judaism to Catholicism, became a Carmelite nun, and was murdered at Auschwitz - the Church named her a martyr and patron saint of Europe.

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1942Died9 August 19421938“God is truth. All who seek truth seek God, whether this is clear to them or not.”In their words23 March 1938Letter to Sr. Adelgundis Jaegerschmid, 23 March 1938

1932“Because the sin which she encouraged him to commit was in all likelihood a sin of sensuality, woman is more intensely exposed to the danger of descent into stark carnality.”In their wordsThe Separate Vocations of Man and Woman According to Nature and Grace (1932)

“We are being obliged to consider the significance of woman and her existence as a problem. We cannot evade the question as to what we are and what we should be.”In their wordsSpirituality of the Christian Woman (1932)

1931“We can do nothing ourselves; God must do it.”In their wordsFundamental Principles of Women's Education (1931)

1930“Only the person blinded by the passion of controversy could deny that woman in soul and body is formed for a particular purpose.”In their wordsThe Ethos of Woman's Professions (1930)

“Every profession in which woman's soul comes into its own and which can be formed by woman's soul is an authentic woman's profession.”In their wordsThe Ethos of Woman's Professions (1930)

1891Born12 October 1891

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  1. God is truth. All who seek truth seek God, whether this is clear to them or not.

    Mar 23, 1938, Letter to Sr. Adelgundis Jaegerschmid, 23 March 1938, Own words

  2. As woman was the first to be tempted, so did God's message of grace come first to a woman, and each time woman's assent determined the destiny of humanity as a whole.

    1932, The Separate Vocations of Man and Woman According to Nature and Grace (1932), Own words

  3. Because the sin which she encouraged him to commit was in all likelihood a sin of sensuality, woman is more intensely exposed to the danger of descent into stark carnality.

    1932, The Separate Vocations of Man and Woman According to Nature and Grace (1932), Own words

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About this person

Edith Stein was born into an observant Jewish family in Germany in 1891 but had turned agnostic by her teens. She completed her doctoral thesis at the University of Freiburg in 1916 and became an assistant to Edmund Husserl. Reading the life of Teresa of Ávila drew her to Christianity; she was baptized on 1 January 1922. She wanted immediately to enter the Carmelites but was dissuaded, so she taught at a Jewish school in Speyer until the Nazi government's 1933 Aryan certificate law forced her out. She entered the Discalced Carmelite monastery in Cologne in November 1933, taking the name Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, and made her perpetual vows in 1938. That same year she and her sister Rosa, also a convert, were sent to a monastery in the Netherlands for safety. After Dutch bishops publicly condemned Nazi treatment of Jews in July 1942, the Gestapo arrested all baptized Catholics of Jewish origin on 2 August. Stein and Rosa were deported to Auschwitz and murdered in the gas chamber on 9 August 1942.

Country
Germany
Category
Academics
Type
Academic
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1891 to 1942 · aged 50

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