CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS -- CHAPTER 1 -- 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 -- Notes -- CHAPTER 2 -- Edith Stein the Phenomenologist -- The Phenomenological Approach -- Object and Intention -- Essence -- Intuition (Anschauung) -- Holistic Aspect of Phenomenology -- Transcendental Reduction and Transcendental Idealism -- Stein's Attitude toward Philosophy and Theology -- A Question of Docility -- Conclusion -- Notes -- CHAPTER 3 -- Being, That Which Is, Essence (Sein, Seiende, Wesen) -- Potency and Act -- God: Pure Being, Pure Act, First Existent -- Form and Matter -- Substance -- The "I" and the Person -- Physical Body and Living Body (Körper and Leib) -- Animal Soul -- Spirit -- Human Soul -- Question of the Soul at Death -- Creation as Image of the Personal Triune God -- Conclusion -- Notes -- CHAPTER 4 -- Formation of the Living Being -- Formation of the Human Being -- Self-Formation -- Power for Formation -- Formation after Death -- God's Plan and Human Free Will -- Eternal Life as the Vocation of All Human Beings -- Importance of Community -- Mystical Body of Christ -- Christian Formation -- Carmelite Mysticism -- Conclusion -- Notes -- CHAPTER 5 -- Edith Stein the Catholic Thinker -- Anthropological Views of Pope John Paul II -- Wilkie Au on Holistic Formation -- Conclusion -- Notes -- CHAPTER 6 -- A Springboard for Stein's Engagement with -- Contemporary Philosophy and Science -- Interactionist Dualism of John Eccles -- Holist-Mentalist Theory of Roger Sperry -- Nonreductive Physicalism: Nancey Murphy, Warren Brown, Malcolm Jeeves, and Ray Anderson -- Neurotheology of Andrew Newberg and Eugene D'Aquili -- Conclusion.

Notes -- CHAPTER 7 -- Notes -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.