Devant dieu pour tous vie et message d'edith stein
Didier-Marie Golay - Collection Images
Résumé
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To stand 'before God for all': this is how Edith Stein (Breslau, 1891 - Auschwitz/Birkenau II, 1942) perceived her vocation. Her vocation in the Church and for the world. She was born into a Jewish family in Silesia. In her teenage years, she became a 'free thinker', abandoning the religion of her forefathers. In 1913, at university under the teaching of Edmund Husserl - the founder of phenomenology - she discovered philosophy. After reading St. Teresa of Avila, she was baptised into the Catholic Church in 1922. A university teacher and speaker at conferences, she defended an improved status for women in society, and developed teaching that encouraged the development of every facet of the person. She entered the Carmelite order in1933, just as Hitler and the Nazis were coming to power, so fulfilling a desire she had nurtured since her baptism. She lived in the Carmelite convent in Cologne, before taking refuge in a convent in Echt, in the Netherlands. In 1942, she was arrested by the Gestapo. She was deported: 'Come', she said to her sister, 'we go for our People.' At the age of 51, she was killed in a gas chamber at the Auschwitz/Birkenau II concentration camp. Edith Stein's life was a constant and humble quest for the truth: the truth perceived as a principle of life. Jewess and Christian, philosopher and nun, academic and Carmelite, trans-European lecturer and cloistered convent-dweller - and Martyr, Edith Stein, Sister Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, tested and experienced seemingly paradoxical realities but all of them contributed to her personality. Even after she was baptised, she continued to think as a phenomenologist and, when she went into orders, she never ceased to be Jewish. In her person, she attained a unity that was profound, unique and exceptional. Edmund Husserl paid tribute to her thus: 'In her, everything is genuine.' It is towards that authenticity of the person that she leads those who study her considerable literary output, or who simply wish to know more about her. Sister Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, Edith Stein, is a co-Patron saint of Europe.
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Éditeur(s) | Cerf |
Auteur(s) | Didier-Marie Golay |
Collection | Images |
Parution | 11/06/2009 |
Format | 23 x 28.5 |
Couverture | Broché |
Poids | 1582g |
EAN13 | 9782204079600 |
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