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Understanding the Feminine Vocation With Edith Stein, by Dawn Beutner – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

Understanding the Feminine Vocation With Edith Stein, by Dawn Beutner

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A young Edith Stein as a student (c. 1913-14) and later as Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (c 1938). (Images: Wikipedia)

By Dawn Beutner, Catholic World Report, Aug. 10, 2024

Dawn Beutner is the author of The Leaven of the Saints: Bringing Christ into a Fallen World (Ignatius Press, 2023), and Saints: Becoming an Image of Christ Every Day of the Year also from Ignatius Press. She blogs at dawnbeutner.com.

Teresa Benedicta of the Cross was, by nature and training, a philosopher. The discrimination she experienced led her to analyze the differences between men and women as a philosopher and a Catholic.

Is feminism good or bad? What is feminism? What is the role of women in culture? Or even more fundamentally: what is a woman?

Arguments over these questions have become so contentious that it’s dangerous to even raise the topic. Perhaps the wisdom of a twentieth-century German woman can help us find talking points to use with those who are willing to have a serious discussion about these issues.

Edith Stein was born in 1891 into a large Jewish family in the city of Breslau. Although her native city is now known as Wrocław, Poland, it was a German city during her lifetime. …

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