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 the Catholic Church / / Jadwiga Guerrero van der Meijden.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2019 Part 1
• VerfasserIn: Guerrero van der Meijden, Jadwiga,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Theologische Bibliothek Töpelmann , 186
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (XVI, 370 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; List of Abbreviations --; Introduction --; Chapter One: Methodology --; Chapter Two: An Outline of Anthropological Themes in Edith Stein’s Writings --; Chapter Three: The Network of Anthropological Concepts in Edith Stein’s Philosophy --; Chapter Four: The Human Person in Edith Stein’s Philosophy --; Chapter Five: Human Dignity and Value in Edith Stein’s Writings --; Chapter Six: Human Dignity in the Writings of the Church Fathers of the Doctors of the Church --; Chapter Seven: Human Dignity in Contemporary Magisterial Documents and the Functionality of the Steinian Model of Dignity --; Bibliography --; Index of Terms
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110661156; 9783110762464; 9783110719567; 9783110610765; 9783110664232; 9783110610741; 9783110606508
• ISSN: 0563-4288
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110661156
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Jadwiga Guerrero van der Meijden.

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 Christian 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.