Posselt, Teresia Renata, Edith Stein: The Life of a Philosopher and Carmelite,(eds.) Susanne M. Batzdorff, Josephine Koeppel & John Sullivan

Abstract

This is a fresh English translation of the very first biography of Edith Stein, Saint Teresa Benedicta a Cruce, written in 1947 by her  novice mistress and later prioress of the Cologne Carmel, Sister Teresia Renata of the Holy Spirit (Teresia Renata Posselt), and first  published in Germany in 1948. The original appears here in a revised edition, translated and edited by Edith Stein’s niece Susanne  Batzdorff, as well as Sister Josephine Koeppel of the Carmel of Elysburg, Pennsylvania, and the Rev. Dr. John Sullivan, Chairman of the  Institute of Carmelite Studies, in collaboration with Maria Amata Neyer, of the Cologne Carmel, who also contributes the Foreword.