By Edith Stein, Translated by Kurt F. Reinhardt
This volume, "written by a beginner for beginners" bears the imprint of the extraordinary intellictual and spiritual journey of its author, one of the most remarkable women of the 20th century.
As a Jewess who abandoned her faith as a teen, then undergoing a profound conversion and being baptised the following year, became a prominent German Catholic laywoman. In 1933 she left the academic milieu and entered the Carmel of Cologne. Encouraged by her superiors, she again took up her intellectual labors.
Finite and Eternal Being is her master work, the culmination of her lifelong search for truth in all its philosophical, psychological, and spiritual dimensions. With her careful step-by-step analysis, she gradually shows how the being of all finite existence (especially the human "I") finds its ultimate ground and destiny in the eternal Divine Being, the creator whose trinitarian nature is reflected throughout creation.
ICS Publications, 2002, PB, From The Collected Works of Edith Stein, 625 pp. |
