Edith Stein: The Life of a Philosopher and Carmelite (Collected Works of Edith Stein, Sister Teresa Benedicta)

By Teresia Renata Posselt, O.C.D.Edited by Susanne M. Batzdorff, Josephine Koeppel and John SullivanTeresa Renata Posselt, O.C.D. was the Novice Director, then Mother Prioress of the Cologne Carmel when Edith Stein lived there. This is Posselt's tribute to Saint Edith Stein, a wreath of recollections, lovingly woven together. It is also the first-ever biography published about that €œGreat Woman of the Twentieth Century."Having been out of print for half a century, the original text is here re-edited and enhanced by scholarly perspectives and updated and corrected in the light of knowledge which was not available to the author at the time.Enriched by a broader range of contemporary literature about the philosopher, educator, spiritual writer, and victim of the catastrophe that engulfed her as part of her Jewish people, this new presentation of the biography everyone cites so frequently