The Scholar & the Cross Fr Andrew OP

The Scholar & the Cross Fr Andrew OPEdith Stein was a figure most singular and rare. Even within the purview of the illustrious history of the Churchs saints, few can lay claim to so powerful a marriage of faith and intellect. Born into a devout Jewish family in 1891, her intellectual abilities did not long go unnoticed and in 1913 she moved to Gttingen in Germany to study philosophy under Edmund Husserl. There, as destiny would have it, she encountered a work on the life of Saint

Ruellan ended up as a founder of Gonzaga University

but with the added bonus of Christians wrestling with the difficult issues and situations which life presents

In "The Word Has Been Abroad

chin on hand

showing why it is perfectly reasonable to believe in Christ and the Church

It is unlikely that she would think it necessary to read one even if she knew how to obtain oneÔÇöno one who taught her the Faith in grade school or high school ever showed her encyclicals

" - From the Introduction

and builds an amazing career

wore clothes

Now comes The Temperament God Gave You

You will begin to see the loving hand of God in all things

but most precious relics: the small cloth that lay on Jesus's face in the tomb