"Żadna kobieta nie jest tylko kobietą". Edyty Stein teologiczna wizja roli kobiet w Kościele i społeczeństwie

• Authors: Elżbieta Adamiak

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„Any Woman is Nothing but a Woman” – Edith Stein’s Theological Vision of Women’s Role in Church and Society

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

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The article analyses Edith Stein’s theological view of women’s role in theChurch and society. First, the phase of her life is presented during which she wrote her essays about women. Second, the methodological question is discussed how we can interpret her works as theological. In the main part her understanding of sexes is presented. Stein describes three levels of a human being. On the first level all people are equal and should therefore have the same political rights and educational opportunities (egalitarianism). On the second level, Stein speaks about difference between women and men in nearly essentialists categories. On the third level, she writes about exceptionality of every person (individualism). It follows that not every woman must have ‘female’ characteristics from the second level. In order to understand her thinking about women, it is very important that her integrate theological and anthropological vision should be taken into consideration.

• Publisher: Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
• Journal: Zeszyty Naukowe Centrum Badań im. Edyty Stein
• Year: 2014
• Issue: 11
• Pages: 145-154

Dates

published

2016-01-29

Contributors

author

Elżbieta Adamiak

Identifiers

DOI

10.14746/cbes.2014.11.13