Is Christian Spiritual Experience an Intellectual Form? Reflections on Edith Stein’s Endliches und ewiges Sein (Finite and Eternal Being)
Verbum Vitae September 29, 2026 Piotr Pasterczyk
This article examines the nature of Christian spiritual experience in light of Edith Stein’s Finite and Eternal Being. Historically, spiritual experience can be understood in terms of either intellectual form or the practical exercise of love of neighbor. Following Stein, the article identifies intellectual form as the source of spiritual experience, which not only proceeds from the Christian...