The Science of the Cross (CWES, vol. 6)

The Science of the Cross (The Collected Works of Edith Stein, vol. 6) Edith Stein (St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross) Translated by Josephine Koeppel, OCD Edited by Dr. L. Gelber and Romaeus Leuven, OCD To help celebrate the fourth centenary of the birth of St. John of the Cross in 1542, Edith Stein received the task of preparing a study of his writings. She uses her skill as a philosopher to enter into an illuminating reflection on the difference between the two symbols of cross and night. Pointing out how entering the night is synonymous with carrying the cross, she provides a condensed presentation of John's thought on the active and passive nights, as discussed in The Ascent of Mount Carmel and The Dark Night. Because of the Nazis' merciless persecution of Jews in Germany, Edith Stein traveled discreetly across the border into Holland to find safe harbor in the Carmel of Echt. But the Nazi invasion of Holland in 1940 again put Edith in danger. The cross weighed down heavily as t