Edith Stein: The Life and Legacy of St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross

by Maria Ruiz Scaperlanda

Book Overview

In the wake of World War I when neither Jews nor women were widely accepted in academia, Edith Stein rose to prominence as a leading philosopher who thrived in the intellectual community in Germany. She shocked both her Jewish family and her academic friends when she fell in love with Jesus Christ and became a Roman Catholic

More shocking still, eleven years later, Edith entered the cloistered Carmelite order to follow a life of mystic and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1622824644
• ISBN13: 9781622824649
• Release Date: August 2017
• Publisher: Sophia Institute Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"