The Feminine Intellectual Vocation

by Marie Kawthar Daouda

Edith Stein argued that men and women alike are equally called to imitate God, but that they imitate the divine being in different ways. 
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28 Jul 2022

Husserl’s Students

by William Doino Jr.

Dietrich von Hildebrand and Edith Stein were born on the same day, October 12, just two years apart (Dietrich in 1889, Edith in 1891), and there the similarities ended—for a while. Continue Reading »

17 Mar 2014

The Beginning of the Journey

by Thomas S. Hibbs

Edith Stein: A Philosophical Prologue 1913–1922by alasdair macintyrerowman & littlefield, 224 pages, $25.95 In the summer of 1921, while visiting friends, Edith Stein chanced upon the autobiography of St. Teresa of Avila. Reading through the night, she completed an important stage in her own . . . . Continue Reading »

1 May 2006

Man and Machine

by Various

Man and Machine William A. Dembski’s “Are We Spiritual Machines?” (October 1999) challenges the spiritualistic materialism of strong Artificial Intelligence enthusiasts such as Marvin Minsky with arguments that are among the best I have ever seen. There are no doubt other Christians with Mr. . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jan 2000

Edith Stein, Apostate Saint

by David Novak

The recent canonization of Edith Stein as Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross by the Roman Catholic Church poses a number of very serious challenges to living Jews, we who are still members of the people to whom Edith Stein believed she also belonged, even at her death in Auschwitz. Theologically . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Oct 1999