Edith Stein: The Life and Legacy of St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross

In the wake of World War I when neither Jews nor women were widely accepted in academia, Edith Stein rose to prominence as a leading intellectual in Germany. A passionate and brilliant philosopher, she shocked her intellectual community when she fell in love with Jesus Christ and became a Roman Catholic.

In Edith Stein: The Life and Legacy of St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, you'll encounter a multifaceted women who entered the cloistered Carmelite order to follow the life of a mystic under the name Teresa Benedicta of the Cross. Author and journalist Maria Ruiz Scaperlanda brings new light to this complex woman who transformed her entire life because of her encounter with Jesus Christ, an encounter that led her from the depths of atheism to the heights of sainthood.