Person and Dignity in Edith Stein¿s Writings

Investigated in Comparison to the Writings of the Doctors of the Church and the Magisterial Documents of the Catholic Church
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-3-11-065942-9
Verlag: De Gruyter

Buch, Englisch, 370 Seiten, HC runder Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 728 g

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Edith Stein is widely known as a historical figure, a victim of the Holocaust and a saint, but still unrecognised as a philosopher. It was philosophy, however, that constituted the core of her life. Today her complete writings are available to scholars and therefore her thinking can be properly investigated and evaluated. Who is a human person? And what is his or her dignity according to Edith Stein? Those are the two leading questions investigated in this volume. The answer is presented based on the complete writings of the 20th-c. phenomenologist and, moreover, compared to the traditional Christian understanding of human dignity present in the writings of the Church Fathers and the Doctors of the Church as well as Magisterial Documents of the Catholic Church. In the final parts of the book, the author shows how Stein's ideas are relevant today, in particular to the ongoing doctrinal and legal debates over the concept of human dignity.

Zielgruppe

Scholars of history of philosophy, phenomenology, philosophy, the

Autoren/Hrsg.

Guerrero van der Meijden, Jadwiga

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Kirchengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Katholizismus, Römisch-Katholische Kirche
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie Geschichte der Theologie, Einzelne Theologen

Über Autor(innen)

Jadwiga Guerrero van der Meijden, Jagiellonian University, Krakau, Polen.

Jadwiga Guerrero van der Meijden, Jagiellonian University, Krakau, Polen.