The Conversion of Edith Stein

by Florent Gaboriau, Ralph McInerny (Translator)

Overview

One Fateful Day Edith Stein took from a friend's bookshelf the autobiography of Saint Teresa of Avila. In it she found the simple truth about human existence. Shortly afterward, she became a Catholic, but her desire to become a Carmelite like Teresa was delayed for some time. Eventually she entered the convent in Cologne. Because the Nazi persecution of Jews, converted or not, endangered others in her convent, she asked to be moved to a convent in the Netherlands. The German armies of occupation soon followed. It was from the Carmelite convent at Echt that she was taken in 1942, shipped to Auschwitz and executed

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781587311253
Publisher:	St. Augustine's Press
Publication date:	01/28/2002
Pages:	136
Product dimensions:	4.50(w) x 7.10(h) x 0.70(d)

Table of Contents

	Preface	ix
	Chronology	13
1.	When Edith Stein Converted	20
	Memories of Youth	22
2.	The Conversion of a Jewess	26
	On Woman	32
3.	The Conversion of a Woman	36
	On Death, with reference to Heidegger	46
4.	The Conversion of a Philosopher	50
	On Spiritual Discernment	59
5.	Conversion Extended over Time	62
	The Interior Life	82
6.	Conversion for all?	88
	Christian Philosophy	102
7.	Conversion Achieved	110
	The Hidden Life and the Epiphany	115
8.	The Canonization of Edith Stein	123