Abstract
This paper demonstrates different ways in which Edith Stein’s philosophical thought supports many concepts, principles, and applications of Catholic Social Teaching. Notably, Stein’s own 1933 letter requesting that Pope Pius XI denounce “deeds perpetrated in Germany which mock any sense of justice and humanity, not to mention love of neighbor,” was precisely a call for a pronouncement that would have fallen directly into the then nascent body of Catholic Social Teaching. Ironically, it was Pius XI who two years earlier coined the term “Christian social teaching” in his 1931 encyclical, “Quadragesimo Anno” (87).
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Notes
- 1.
Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace (2005), no. 76–77.
- 2.
Stein (1986).
- 3.
The English translation of Life in a Jewish Family, 190, mistakenly states, “Darwinistic” Nationalism.
- 4.
Stein (2000e).
- 5.
Stein, “Der Brief an Papst Pius XI”. Henceforth, translations from Stein’s German texts are mine.
- 6.
Pius XI (1931).
- 7.
Stein, “Der Brief an Papst Pius XI.”
- 8.
Stein makes references to the following encyclicals of Pius XI: Ubi arcano dei consilio (1922) [On the Peace of Christ in the Kingdom of Christ], Divini Illius Magistri (1929) [On Christian Education), and Casti Connubii (1930) [On Christian Marriage]. See Stein (2001c), 124; Stein, “Probleme der neueren Mädchenbildung,” 131; and Stein (2000f).
- 9.
Stein, “Der Brief an Papst Pius XI.”
- 10.
Stein (1990).
- 11.
Stein (2001c).
- 12.
Stein (2002), 376.
- 13.
Stein (2004), p. 78.
- 14.
Stein (2002), 343, 356, 508–509.
- 15.
Stein (1986), 318–367.
- 16.
Stein (2000e), 179.
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Ibid., 175.
- 18.
Stein (2016).
- 19.
Stein (2006b).
- 20.
Stein (2006b), 423.
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Stein (2007b).
- 22.
Byron (2013).
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Ibid.
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- 25.
Stein (2006a), 93; see also 93 note 189.
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Stein (2004), 134.
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Stein (2002), 507.
- 28.
Ibid., 508.
- 29.
Stein (2016), 106–107, 114.
- 30.
Stein (2002), 508.
- 31.
Unites States Catholic Bishops (2009), no. 77.
- 32.
Byron, 9.
- 33.
Stein (2000e), 179–180.
- 34.
Ibid., 180.
- 35.
Stein (2000c).
- 36.
Stein (2016), 115–116.
- 37.
Stein (2002), 508.
- 38.
Stein (2004), 156.
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Pius XII (1939).
- 40.
Paul VI (1967), no. 17.
- 41.
Ibid., no. 43.
- 42.
John Paul II (1987), no. 38.
- 43.
- 44.
Stein (2004), 64.
- 45.
- 46.
Stein (2002), 510.
- 47.
Stein (2016), 107–108.
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Stein (2000e), 168.
- 49.
- 50.
Stein (2016), 113.
- 51.
Stein (2000e), 184–185.
- 52.
Ibid., 185.
- 53.
Stein (2000d).
- 54.
Ibid., 130.
- 55.
Ibid., 131.
- 56.
Ibid., 131–132, note 10.
- 57.
Ibid., 214.
- 58.
Ibid., 215.
- 59.
John Paul II (1987), no. 39.
- 60.
Stein (2002), 510.
- 61.
Stein (2006b), 426, note 64.
- 62.
Stein (2002), 464.
- 63.
Ibid., 604 note 88, 464, 596 note 1; see also 355, 420–427.
- 64.
Ibid., 527.
- 65.
Stein (2006b), 376.
- 66.
Ibid., 385.
- 67.
John Paul II (1987), no. 33.
- 68.
Stein (2016),126.
- 69.
Stein (2009b), 8.
- 70.
Stein (2009), 446.
- 71.
Ibid.
- 72.
Stein (2004), 152–153.
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Maskulak, M. (2022). Edith Stein and Catholic Social Teaching. In: Andrews, M.F., Calcagno, A. (eds) Ethics and Metaphysics in the Philosophy of Edith Stein. Women in the History of Philosophy and Sciences, vol 12. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-91198-0_2
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