Edith Stein

Edith Stein (12 Oktoba 1891 – 9 au 10 Agosti 1942) alikuwa mwanamke mwanafalsafa wa Ujerumani mwenye asili ya Kiyahudi.

Edith Stein akionekana katika stempu ya Ujerumani.

Edith Stein na mfiadini mwenzake, padri Maximilian Kolbe, wanavyoonekana katika kioo kwa usanii wa Alois Plum huko Kassel.

Ingawa alilelewa kidini baadaye alipoteza imani hadi alipoanza maisha mapya katika Kristo kwa kubatizwa akawa mtawa wa ndani wa shirika la Wakarmeli. Jina lake la utawani lilikuwa Teresa Benedikta wa Msalaba (kwa Kilatini: Teresia Benedicta a Cruce)^[1].

Aliuawa na wafuasi wa Unazi kwa gesi ya sumu katika moja ya makambi ya KZ kule Auschwitz (leo nchini Polandi).

Papa Yohane Paulo II alimtangaza mwenye heri mwaka 1987 halafu mtakatifu mfiadini mwaka 1998 na hatimaye msimamizi mmojawapo wa Ulaya.

Sikukuu yake huadhimishwa tarehe 9 Agosti^[2]

Maandishi yake

Ukumbusho wa Edith Stein huko Prague, Ucheki.

• Life in a Jewish Family: Her Unfinished Autobiographical Account, translated by Josephine Koeppel, 1986
• On the Problem of Empathy, Translated by Waltraut Stein 1989
• Essays on Woman, translated by Freda Mary Oben, 1996
• The Hidden Life, translated by Josephine Koeppel, 1993
• The Science of the Cross, translated by Josephine Koeppel, 1998
• Knowledge and Faith
• Finite and Eternal Being: An Attempt to an Ascent to the Meaning of Being
• Philosophy of Psychology and the Humanities, translated by Mary Catharine Baseheart, SCN and Marianne Sawicki, 2000
• An Investigation Concerning the State, translated by Marianne Sawicki, 2006
• Martin Heidegger's Existential Philosophy Ilihifadhiwa 25 Machi 2009 kwenye Wayback Machine., translated by Mette Lebech, 2007
• Self-Portrait in Letters, 1916-1942
• The Hidden Life Ilihifadhiwa 7 Agosti 2007 kwenye Wayback Machine.

Tazama pia

• Watakatifu wa Agano la Kale
• Orodha ya Watakatifu Wakristo
• Orodha ya Watakatifu wa Afrika
• Orodha ya Watakatifu Wafransisko