
A Sure Way
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This collection introduces Edith Stein to a new generation, inviting the reader to walk with her on the way that leads to joy, peace, and assurance even in times that test the soul. The selections bring together her most essential writings - reflections, letters, prayers, poems, advice, and spiritual meditations - offering a window into a soul whose love for Jesus gave her life a firm direction from which she never wavered. Whether used for group study or quiet personal reflection, this little book will encourage anyone seeking to follow God in a complicated world.
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Acclaim for Edith Stein:The love of Christ was the fire that inflamed the life of Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross. Long before she realized it, she was caught by this fire. At the beginning she devoted herself to freedom. For a long time Edith Stein was a seeker. Her mind never tired of searching and her heart always yearned for hope. She traveled the arduous path of philosophy with passionate enthusiasm. Eventually she was rewarded: she seized the truth. Or better: she was seized by it. Then she discovered that truth had a name: Jesus Christ.
-Pope John Paul II, from his Homily for the Canonization of Edith Stein, October 11, 1998
Just as in the early church the martyrs died because they would not say 'Caesar is Lord' (they knew that this was what Jesus was), so with Edith Stein. . . . When she was summoned to the convent parlour by the SS commandant who was rounding up the Jews in the area. He greeted her with the words 'Heil, Hitler', and she greeted him with what she said to her sisters every morning of her life: 'Laudetur Jesus Christus' ('Jesus Christ be praised'). There, you might say, are the two lordships in conflict in the 1930s; her response was once again in the form of a life making sense of a senseless and terrible world.
-Rowan Williams, Luminaries: Twenty Lives That Illuminate the Christian Way
Stein's writings, both early and late, are not so much an invitation to agreement as they are an invitation to rethink in her company the issues with which she was concerned. And, since she generally and characteristically identified those issues that were and are philosophically crucial, this makes her a significantly more important thinker than she has often been taken to be.
-Alasdair MacIntyre, Edith Stein: A Philosophical Prologue, 1913-1922
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Carolyn Beard is a minister and PhD candidate in religion at the University of Toronto. A graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Divinity School, her research on Edith Stein's political resistance has been published in Sojourners, The German Diplomat, and Edith Stein Jahrbuch.
Content
Who Was Edith Stein? by Carolyn Beard
Reading Edith Stein Today by Zena Hitz
Part I: Ways to Know God
1. Approaching God
2. Standing Before God
3. The Soul’s Way to God
4. Hidden in God
5. On Christian Philosophy
Part II: At the Foot of the Cross
6. Juxta Crucem Tecum Stare
7. The Meaning of the Cross
8. Signum Crucis
9. The Dark Night of the Soul
10. The Night of Faith
Part III: Light Breaks In
11. Easter Morning
12. The Mystery of Sacrifice
13. The Holy Face
14. The Hidden Life and Epiphany
15. Holy Night
16. The Summons of Christmas
Part IV: Women’s Spirituality
17. The Soul of Woman
18. Male and Female in the Image of God
19. Women’s Destiny
Part V: A World in Flames
20. Holy Resistance
21. The Way of the Cross
22. The World Is in Flames
23. I Will Remain with You