![]() Edith was deeply affected and drawn to Scheler’s compelling statements. ![]() Scheler was convinced that religion alone makes the human being human. Does God exist? Her heart remained open as she searched for an answer to this question. Husserl trained his students to look at everything with strict impartiality, for the intellect has a capacity for receiving truth. Yet two mentors influenced her thinking: Edmund Husserl (d 1938) and Max Scheler (d 1928), both Jews and Lutheran converts. She was sympathetic toward the prevailing philosophical view that rejected the existence of the soul. In the process of earning her doctorate in phenomenology in 1916, she abandoned her Jewish faith. Though Edith admired her mother’s piety, her own faith was giving way to atheism.Īt the University of Freiburg, Edith excelled as a philosophy student. Teresa, Blessed by the Cross).īorn in 1891 the youngest in a large devout Jewish family, Edith Stein’s father died an early and sudden death. ![]() On October 11th, 1998, the Catholic Church canonized Edith Stein, Jewish philosopher, atheist-turned-Catholic convert, Discalced Carmelite nun, and martyr of the Catholic Church. Days later either on August 8th or 9th, they were sent to the gas chambers–simply because they were Jews. On August 2nd, 1942, the Nazis arrested and transported them by cattle train in route to the death camp at Auschwitz. ![]() The brutal end for Edith Stein and her sister Rosa came quickly. ![]()
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