The religious experience of Edith Stein: looking for the footprints of Anna and Adolf Reinach

Abstract

Thanks to empathy, some knowledge of the other’s experience is possible for us. This way, the religious experience of the other can be a door of access to God. Some keys to configure of Edith Stein's religious experience are the affective proximity to the Reinach marriage, the deep suffering for loss and the attempt for common rational understanding. This experience, marked by the mystery of the cross and the Geborhenheit, expresses the biographical journey of the personal being, which unfolds in relation to others.