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 ... (Theologische Bibliothek Töpelmann, Band 186)

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 Ch ristian 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.