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Stein, Edith (1891-1942)

From The Encyclopedia of Christian Civilization
Born in Breslau, Germany, the youngest of 11 children of a devout Jewish family, Edith Stein is one of the 20th century's most famous converts from Judaism to Catholicism, known as both a philosopher and a holy Carmelite nun who perished in Auschwitz. Studious and intellectual from a young age, Stein became somewhat exhausted by study around the age of 13, and not long after became religiously indifferent despite her mother's devotion and strong influence. In 1911 she entered the University of Breslau where, disillusioned by the materialism in her psychology courses, she discovered the work of the Jewish philosopher Edmund Husserl (1859-1938), a leader of the movement known as phenomenology. Stein was captivated by the Husserlian promise of penetrating into the nature of reality through a better grasp of the operation of consciousness, and moved to Göttingen to study with him. Stein flourished as a student of phenom-enology, which she saw as a counterweight to scepticism and…
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Full text Article Stein, Edith

From The Palgrave Macmillan Dictionary of Women's Biography
German nun. Born into a Jewish family in Breslau, Edith studied philosophy at the universities of Breslau and Göttingen. In 1922, after reading a biography of T eresa of avila , she was baptized a Catholic and for eight years taught at a convent school at Speyer, where she acquired a reputation for…
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Polish Discalced Carmelite nun and philosopher. Born into an observant Jewish family, she was an atheist as a teenager. In 1916 she earned a doctorate in philosophy summa cum laude from the University of Gottingen and obtained an assistantship at the University of Freiberg, but because she was a…
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Full text Article Carmelites

From Encyclopedia of World Religions: Encyclopedia of Catholicism
The Carmelites are an order of hermits that began as a group of contemplatives gathered around the traditional cave of Elijah on Mt. Carmel in the 12th century. Their abbreviation is OCarm. They took their inspiration from Elijah's way of life and their devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary. They were…
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Full text Article Stein, Edith

From Encyclopedia of World Religions: Encyclopedia of Judaism
Also known as: St. Theresa Benedicta of the Cross (b. 1891–d. 1942) German Carmelite nun and philosopher Edith Stein was born on October 12, 1891, to Jewish parents in Breslau, Germany. In her autobiography, Stein explains that although her family did not participate in any organized religion, her…
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Full text Article canonization

From Encyclopedia of World Religions: Encyclopedia of Catholicism
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Canonization (or sanctification) is the definitive proclamation by which the pope, in the name of the church, declares a beatified deceased person to be a saint. A saint is one who has entered into eternal glory with God and the other saints and who may receive a public cult throughout the entire…
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Full text Article Stein, Edith

From Chambers Biographical Dictionary
known as Sister Teresa Benedicta of the Cross 1891-1942 German Carmelite philosopher Born in Breslau to a Jewish family, she was converted to Catholicism in 1922 and began interpreting the phenomenology she had learned under Edmund Husserl from a Thomistic point of view. She completed her project…
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Full text Article Jewish Christianity

From Encyclopedia of World Religions: Encyclopedia of Catholicism
The first Christians were Jews, and Christianity operated during its first decades as a way within Judaism. As the church separated from the Jewish community to become a different religion, the membership became overwhelmingly Gentile. However, a minority of people of Jewish heritage remained in the…
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From Chambers Dictionary of Great Quotations
Abbott, Diane Julie 1953- Abelard, Peter 1079-1142 Abercrombie, Lascelles 1881-1938 Abrams, M(eyer) H(oward) 1912- Abse, Dannie 1923-2014 Abu’l-’Alá, Al-Ma’arri 973-1058 Abzug, Bella originally Bella Savitzky 1920-98…
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Full text Article Germany

From Worldmark Encyclopedia of Religious Practices
Germany
POPULATION 81,147,265 ROMAN CATHOLIC 30.2 percent EVANGELICAL CHURCH IN GERMANY (EKD) 29.2 percent EVANGELICAL FREE CHURCHES 1.8 percent OTHER CHRISTIAN 1.6 percent ISLAM 4.9 percent JUDAISM 0.1 percent OTHER 1.6 percent NONAFFILIATED 30.6 percent Introduction A predominantly Christian country where…
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From The New Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women
The names of subjects have been reduced to the minimum necessary for identification, using the names by which subjects are best known. Names in italics are co-subjects (see the explanation in the Readers’ Guide on page xxvii). Aid (see also Development) Farquharson, Marjorie (1953–2016) Norgrove, …
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