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The Science of the Cross

work by Stein
Also known as: “Studie über Joannes a Cruce: Kreuzeswissenschaft”(Show More)
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The Science of the Cross is a treatise by Edith Stein, a Carmelite nun and philosopher who converted from Judaism to Catholicism. Executed by the Nazis at Auschwitz, she is considered a modern martyr.1

Stein's work is a phenomenological study of the writings of St. John of the Cross. It explores the spiritual journey of the soul as it detaches from worldly things and experiences a profound, often difficult, union with the divine, akin to the experience of Christ's crucifixion. Stein's own life and martyrdom deeply inform the spiritual and philosophical insights within her work.12

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