Human and Divine Being: A Study on the Theological Anthropology of Edith Stein (AAR Reading Religion Book Review)

divine_0Sang-il Kim, a doctoral candidate in Practical Theology at BUSTH, recently reviewed Human and Divine Being: A Study on the Theological Anthropology of Edith Stein, by Donald Wallenfang. Please see the beginning of Kim’s  review below and visit the Reading Religion website for the full review.

Reading Religion (RR) is an open book review website published by the American Academy of Religion (AAR). The site provides up-to-date coverage of scholarly publishing in religious studies, reviewed by scholars with special interest and/or expertise in the relevant subfields.

 Human and Divine Being: A Study on the Theological Anthropology of Edith Stein, by Donald Wallenfang, Eugene, OR: Cascade Books , April 2017. 274 pages.

$33.00. Paperback. ISBN 9781498293365. For other formats: See Cascade Books.

Review excerpt

What can Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas, and Edmund Husserl teach about what the human person is in the twenty-first century? Apparently there is a lot. According to Donald Wallenfang, Edith Stein (1892-1942), the Carmelite mystic and nun, brought these three intellectual and spiritual giants together in a deeply engaging and constructive dialogue towards understanding the human person for a post-modern society, where “widespread materialism, consumerism, secularism, and technocracy” rule (76). Wallenfang sets out to show how Stein does that work in his Human and Divine Being: A Study on the Theological Anthropology of Edith Stein. Specifically, this book asks such perennial questions as “What is it to be human? How are human beings different from other types of being in the universe? What are the integral parts that make up the human being?” (xxi). Read more at Reading Religion.

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