Abstract
Edith Stein, erstwhile phenomenologist, became a Catholic and eventually a Carmelite nun. She was murdered in Birkenau in 1942 and was canonized in 1998 as St Teresa Benedicta of the Cross. Scholarship and contemplation come together in her writings. She translated the works of Dionysius the Areopagite into German. In this article we examine an essay she wrote on Dionysius, taking as her theme ways of knowing God that she understood to underlie his writing.
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