Lorraine Murray writes a regular column for The Georgia Bulletin, the newspaper of the Archdiocese of Atlanta. Her books include Confessions of an Ex-Feminist and The Abbess of Andalusia: Flannery O’Connor’s Spiritual Journey.
Edith Stein was definitely a woman ahead of her time. In her day, women rarely went to college and certainly didn’t receive doctorates in philosophy like she did. She went into philosophy because she sought the truth, and she would eventually find the One who said, “I am the Way, and the Truth, and the Life.”