Alasdair MacIntyre 
Edith Stein 
A Philosophical Prologue

Mac Intyre is one of the major British philosophers of the post-war years. He is a convert to Roman Catholicism. Edith Stein was an intellectual of considerable importance in the period between the two World Wars, also canonised as a Saint. A Jewish convert to Catholicism, she died in the gas chambers of Auschwitz. Stein»s published essays focused largely on the structure of the person and a careful articulation of the essential nature of community and its basis in our nature as persons. Mac Intyre looks at Stein as both a theologian and philosopher, and reveals many of the fundamental issues in both disciplines.