Edith Stein and the body-soul-spirit at the center of holistic formation
By: Marian Maskulak.
Series: American university studies. Series VII, Theology and religion -- v. 261
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780820495392
Subjects: Stein, Edith, -- Saint, -- 1891-1942.; Theological anthropology -- Christianity.; Philosophical theology.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: Introduction; The critique of radical or substance dualism; Edith Stein and the soul; Stein's body-soul holism versus dualism; Holistic anthropology as the basis for holistic spirituality; Edith Stein the scholar; Methodology and overview; Stein's methodology; Edith Stein the phenomenologist; The phenomenological approach; Stein's attitude toward philosophy and theology; Question of docility; Stein's ontology and anthropology; Being, that which is, essence (Sein, Seiende, Wesen); Potency and act; God : pure being, pure act, first existent; Form and matter; Ousia, substance; The "I" and the person; Physical body and living body (Körper and Leib); Animal soul; Spirit; Human soul; Question of the soul at death; Creation as image of the personal Triune God; Conclusion.