{"id":63623,"date":"2026-08-09T11:22:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T09:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omnesmag.com\/?p=63623"},"modified":"2026-08-09T12:04:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T10:04:08","slug":"edith-stein-the-saint-teresa-of-our-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omnesmag.com\/en\/actualidad\/edith-stein-la-santa-teresa-de-nuestro-tiempo\/","title":{"rendered":"Edith Stein, the Saint Teresa of Our Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">August 9 marks the feast day of one of Europe\u2019s greatest contemporary saints: Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, Edith Stein. An outstanding philosopher and disciple of Husserl, she was Jewish, converted to Catholicism, became a Carmelite, and was martyred during the Nazi persecution at the Birkenau concentration camp. She is one of the patron saints of Europe. Possibly the best biographical account ever written about her can be found in the monumental biography <em>Edith Stein. Jewish. Philosopher. Saint,<\/em> Published by Taurus in 2025 and written by the Argentine author Irene Chikiar Bauer.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The author of the book holds a Ph.D. in Literature from the National University of La Plata in Argentina, a master\u2019s degree in Sociology of Culture and Cultural Analysis, and is a professor at the University of San Mart\u00edn and the University of San Antonio de Areco; she is also the author of another comprehensive biography of Virginia Woolf. She is in charge of <em>Omnes<\/em> in Madrid to promote the book about a leading philosophical and religious figure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What attracts you to Edith Stein's profile? Why did you become interested in her?\u00a0<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2013When John Paul II canonized her in 1998, I first learned about this woman. I find her journey\u2014from Judaism to her departure from her parents\u2019 faith at age 13\u2014truly remarkable. She considered herself an agnostic, devoted herself to her studies, and loved literature and history. Then she discovered philosophy and began asking herself the great questions of human existence\u2014which are the great philosophical questions\u2014but ones focused more on experience, on understanding the world, and on understanding oneself. Through this process, she came to conversion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I believe he is a key figure for our times\u2014times in which reason and religion are often seen as separate, at least among the general public.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And she chose the religious path when they wouldn't let her be a teacher or lecturer, despite her success; she had always wanted to be a Carmelite, and when that path was cut off, she felt it was time to do what she had always wanted: to enter the Carmelite Order.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">She has many qualities that make her special. In the book, for example, her pioneering feminism is highlighted.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2013Virginia Woolf, who is the subject of my other, earlier, voluminous biography, is also a pioneer and a forerunner of feminism, but she did not define herself as such. And she was born in 1882. Edith was born nine years later, but unlike Virginia Woolf, she did go to college, and there she discovered she was a feminist, because she believed that women should have the same rights as men. Some of her friends were studying at the university, but they were grappling with their \u201cdouble vocation\u201d: What if they got married? Would they have to give it all up? Many didn\u2019t see having a family as compatible with having a career. She firmly believed that it was possible to do both. In that sense, she considered herself a feminist and said so.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She is also a political activist, because she was active in the Weimar Republic. Of course, she soon became disillusioned, because she says that to be in politics, you need a strong conscience and a thick skin.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From that moment on, he devoted himself entirely to philosophy\u2014and through philosophy. It was during this phase of phenomenology that his path to conversion took shape. She was not the only one, because Husserl had also converted to Christianity, and Adolf Reinach\u2014an exceptional figure who was Husserl\u2019s chief assistant\u2014also converted. Some conversions stem from a deep, personal conviction, occurring during truly tragic moments. This is extremely striking to us today\u2014to people who lack religious experience. We see people going through truly horrific experiences, and instead of resenting life and giving up on everything, they find this religious experience and the search for the transcendent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">As a nurse<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Edith Stein worked as a nurse during World War I. How did this work influence her?\u00a0<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2013It\u2019s essential. She can\u2019t stand the fact that while Reinach and all her male friends are at war, she can\u2019t do anything. She volunteers to be a nurse. First, she goes to the clinic where her sister Erna is a doctor, gets trained, and then leaves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is extremely important for nurses. In fact, she devotes the longest section of her autobiography to her time as a nurse, and she does so with great precision. She writes with a deep commitment to what the work entails. She has such empathy for the sick that I believe that experience served her well when she wrote her thesis on empathy. Because of what she experienced there\u2014she had to care for patients who couldn\u2019t even speak, who had to communicate with their eyes, or who didn\u2019t speak the language\u2014,&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The theme of empathy in Stein is a very modern one, in the sense that it\u2019s highly relevant today, isn\u2019t it?\u00a0<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2013Empathy is a word that is often used but rarely put into practice. Edith Stein contrasts with earlier views that claimed empathy was simply feeling for someone; she says that is not the case, but rather feeling what the other person feels, while recognizing that those feelings belong to the other person. That is true communication; anything else is mere contagion. That empathy also requires an ethical decision, and in that regard, Edith Stein was a master.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She always made ethical decisions with regard to others, and she asserts that \u201cthe purpose of humanity is for one\u2019s voice to resonate with those of others.\u201d.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is also something very interesting about how she never renounced her Judaism, at a time when there was tremendous anti-Jewish propaganda in Germany. As a professor and lecturer\u2014and already a Catholic\u2014she said this: \u201cThe Lord chose a people to be born among them; during his earthly life he spoke the language of this people, thought in their metaphors and images, observed their customs, devoted all his energies to them, and has given each people a mission on this earth and for eternity, and to each individual, a mission within this people.\u201d She is an ecumenical, forward-thinking, incredible woman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">He is a leading figure, but I'm not sure if he is well enough known.\u00a0<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2013She is little known, except in Catholic circles\u2014especially among Carmelites\u2014because once she entered the Carmelite Order, she was no longer interested in being a renowned philosopher. Then the Nazis came, they killed her, and no one wanted to remember her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I'm very pleased to have brought in a publisher like Penguin (Taurus)\u2014which is a global publisher and not a religious imprint\u2014to publish this author.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A book by Alasdair MacIntyre has been tremendously helpful to me, because he, too, from a philosophical perspective, writes about the importance of Stein and many of her insights\u2014which, had she been able to continue working within philosophy, who knows where they might have led\u2014and which were later developed by phenomenology as well. She made some remarkable contributions, such as her attempt to reconcile phenomenology with St. Thomas Aquinas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">It's also a bridge between faith and reason, isn't it?\u00a0<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2013That\u2019s what struck me so much. A person who turns her back on her parents\u2019 faith, who declares herself an agnostic, who throws herself into her studies like a madwoman\u2014brilliant\u2014and values reason above all else, eventually finds her way to religion and that reconciliation between knowledge and spirituality, which are not mutually exclusive. That\u2019s really striking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">To Faith Through Reason<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">She comes to faith through reason\u2026<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2013Yes, it stems from agnosticism. So how did she come to have such a profound religious experience? When Edith Stein wrote her autobiography, Nazism was already at the height of its power, and her confessors, within the Catholic community, asked her to write her story because they saw it as a way to counter the horrific Nazi propaganda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So she writes to portray the reality of Jewish family life, which had nothing to do with what Nazi propaganda depicted. But since she was writing within that context as well, there are also many things she likely left unsaid.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Why did she convert while reading St. Teresa?\u00a0<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2013When she begins to think about a transcendent figure\u2014about God\u2014she says, \u201cMy path will lead me to Christianity,\u201d but she doesn\u2019t know whether she\u2019ll become Lutheran, like most Germans, or Catholic. Like Edith Stein, she doesn\u2019t just sit around waiting to see what happens; instead, she starts reading everything she can: Lutheran theology, Catholic theology\u2026 At one point, she comes across the book by Teresa of \u00c1vila, <em>The Book of Life<\/em>. And she realizes that this is her path, and she wants to become a Carmelite. Why? One thing Teresa doesn't mention is that her grandfather was Jewish. When you read the <em>Book of Life<\/em>, it's clear that Teresa is always saying that what matters is how you act in the world\u2014your actions\u2014not where you come from.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To me, Edith Stein is the Saint Teresa of our time, although the context is different, because we don\u2019t live in a religious society. Saint Teresa and Saint John lived in a very religious society; they had many enemies, but they also had many followers, which is why they were able to bring about reform and found convents. Edith Stein came along in the 20th century, at a time characterized\u2014following positivism\u2014by the reign of reason.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It's truly incredible that, even so, she would return to the path of spirituality.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It should also be noted that St. John of the Cross and St. Teresa, even though they had many enemies, were surrounded by people who loved them at the end of their lives. Edith Stein died alone in a concentration camp, surrounded by victims like herself.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Could he have avoided his martyrdom?\u00a0<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2013She could have escaped. At one point, the Carmelites in Germany, in order to protect her, proposed sending her to the Netherlands, but when the war broke out and the Nazis invaded the Netherlands, they tried to get her out of there. They tried to take her to Switzerland, but one of her sisters, who had also converted, was working as a gatekeeper at the convent, and Edith Stein refused to leave without her sister. Amid these delays, the Nazis finally took her away in retaliation for the Dutch bishops\u2019 letter against Nazism, as part of a campaign of vengeance aimed at rounding up all Jews who had converted, as well as many people who had married Jews. These were the first deportations of Jews to concentration camps. That is where she was killed\u2014in Birkenau.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What is his most notable trait?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2013The name she chose when she entered religious life is telling. She chose Teresa, obviously after Teresa of \u00c1vila; Benedicta, because she spent a lot of time with the Benedictines (many wondered why she didn\u2019t become a Benedictine); and de la Cruz. Her name says it all\u2014it embodies that consistency and those values.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What is striking about Edith Stein, what is moving about her, is that search for meaning. Many Catholic biographies have described her as a seeker of truth. But from a more secular perspective, she is a seeker of the meaning of life.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"omnes-block-ficha-vertical\">\n\t<div class=\"content\">\n\t\t<h2>Edith Stein. Jewish. Philosopher. Saint<\/h2>\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.omnesmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/portada-edith-stein.jpeg\" \/>\n\t\t<div class=\"v\"><strong>Author<\/strong>: Irene Chikiar Bauer<\/div><div class=\"v\"><strong>Editorial<\/strong>: Taurus<\/div><div class=\"v\"><strong>Year of publication<\/strong>: 2025<\/div><div class=\"v\"><strong>Pages<\/strong>: 768<\/div>\t<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>El 9 de agosto se celebra la fiesta de una de las mayores santas contempor\u00e1neas europeas: Santa Teresa Benedicta de la Cruz, Edith Stein. Fil\u00f3sofa sobresaliente y disc\u00edpula de Husserl, jud\u00eda, conversa al catolicismo, carmelita y m\u00e1rtir de la persecuci\u00f3n nazi en el campo de concentraci\u00f3n de Birkenau. Es una de las patronas de Europa. 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