Finite and Eternal Being: An Attempt at an Ascent to the Meaning of Being (Stein, Edith//the Collected Works of Edith Stein)

Intorduction: The Inquiry Into Being -- Act And Potency As Modes Of Being -- Essential And Actual Being -- Essentia (ousia, Wesen) -- Substance -- Form And Matter -- Existents As Such (the Transcendentals) -- The Meaning Of Being -- The Image Of The Trinity In The Created World -- The Meaning And Foundation Of Individual Being. Edith Stein (sister Teresa Benedicta Of The Cross, Discalced Carmelite) ; Translated By Kurt Reinhardt. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. "This volume, "written by a beginner for beginners" bears the imprint of the extraordinary intellectual and spiritual journey of its author, one of the most remarkable women of the twentieth century. born in Breslau into a practicing Jewish family in 1891, Edith Stein abandoned her faith as a teenager and later became a key figure among the early disciples of Edmund Husserl, the founder of phenomenology. ........." [from back cover] With her careful step-by-step analysis, she gradually shows how the being of all finite existents (especially the human "I") finds its ultimate ground and destiny in the eternal Divine Being, the Creator whose trinitarian nature is reflected throughout creation.