Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-223) and index.

Introduction -- The critique of radical or substance dualism -- Edith Stein and the soul -- Stein's body-soul holism versus dualism -- Holistic anthropology as the basis for holistic spirituality -- Edith Stein the scholar -- Methodology and overview -- Stein's methodology -- Edith Stein the phenomenologist -- The phenomenological approach -- Stein's attitude toward philosophy and theology -- Question of docility -- Stein's ontology and anthropology -- Being, that which is, essence (Sein, Seiende, Wesen) -- Potency and act -- God : pure being, pure act, first existent -- Form and matter -- Ousia, substance -- The "I" and the person -- Physical body and living body (K�orper and Leib) -- Animal soul -- Spirit -- Human soul -- Question of the soul at death -- Creation as image of the personal Triune God -- Conclusion.

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