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Edith Stein: Selected Writings (Classics of Western Spirituality
The first book to present Edith Stein specifically as a spiritual author, this volume contains selections of her works in a wide range of genres and reveals a wide range of spiritual concerns. †
312 pages, Hardcover
Published November 1, 2016
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February 12, 2017Summary on Essays on woman
Stein considers “the true nature of man and woman in relationship to God the Creator.” She “tells us that ‘all of the defects of a person’s nature which cause him or her to fail in their original vocation are rooted in a perverse relationship to God’ (Essays, 72). And their attitude of ‘I will not serve’ before God causes their perverted relationship to all others….Not only is harmony destroyed between man and woman, but there is loss of personal integrity.”
‘Man and woman are destined to live one life with one another like a single being’ (Essays, 65) Yet the effect of the Fall reduced their relationship to that of master and slave, the man using the woman for his service and his lust. The woman has been placed in subjugation to him as punishment for trying to seduce and therefore rule him. As a result,…woman attempts to dominate man to make compensation for being under him….Degenerate relations between man and woman also cause degenerate relations with the children….Becoming too self-indulgent, the woman may shirk her maternal duties just like the man shirks his.”
“The man is responsible to care for and to protect the woman. She is given the primary duty in procreation and raising of children, but he has the responsibility to help her in her duties and to help the children make good…; his primary vocation is to rule, and secondary is his role as parent. For the woman her maternal role in primary—to rule is secondary…. ‘Everywhere the need exists for maternal sympathy and help, and thus we are able to recapitulate in the one word “motherliness” that which we have developed as the characteristic value of woman.’
Woman’s mission, like Mary’s, is to struggle against evil and to prepare for the spiritual restoration of life in souls before Christ’s second coming. God has endowed woman with a capacity to love His creatures and to serve Him by nourishing and sustaining them….Stein also offers Mary as an example for professional women.
Stein considers “the true nature of man and woman in relationship to God the Creator.” She “tells us that ‘all of the defects of a person’s nature which cause him or her to fail in their original vocation are rooted in a perverse relationship to God’ (Essays, 72). And their attitude of ‘I will not serve’ before God causes their perverted relationship to all others….Not only is harmony destroyed between man and woman, but there is loss of personal integrity.”
‘Man and woman are destined to live one life with one another like a single being’ (Essays, 65) Yet the effect of the Fall reduced their relationship to that of master and slave, the man using the woman for his service and his lust. The woman has been placed in subjugation to him as punishment for trying to seduce and therefore rule him. As a result,…woman attempts to dominate man to make compensation for being under him….Degenerate relations between man and woman also cause degenerate relations with the children….Becoming too self-indulgent, the woman may shirk her maternal duties just like the man shirks his.”
“The man is responsible to care for and to protect the woman. She is given the primary duty in procreation and raising of children, but he has the responsibility to help her in her duties and to help the children make good…; his primary vocation is to rule, and secondary is his role as parent. For the woman her maternal role in primary—to rule is secondary…. ‘Everywhere the need exists for maternal sympathy and help, and thus we are able to recapitulate in the one word “motherliness” that which we have developed as the characteristic value of woman.’
Woman’s mission, like Mary’s, is to struggle against evil and to prepare for the spiritual restoration of life in souls before Christ’s second coming. God has endowed woman with a capacity to love His creatures and to serve Him by nourishing and sustaining them….Stein also offers Mary as an example for professional women.
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