Editing Edith Stein (section)

=== The later Christian period (1934–42) ===
Her first literal assignment in Carmel was to prepare ''Potency and Act'' for publication, a task she accomplished by writing a new book: ''Finite and Eternal Being – An Ascent to the Meaning of Being''. This work proposed a phenomenological doctrine of being ''(Seinslehre)'', which knows itself to be Christian, i.e. as taking Christian Revelation to contribute towards the view of the world in which it looks for and finds the meaning of being in being's unfolding. Stein also worked on [[Dionysius the Areopagite]], translating his works into German and writing (for him) a work supposed to be lost on symbolic theology. Stein's final work, the ''Science of the Cross'', was a commentary on [[John of the Cross]], which developed the specifically Carmelite understanding of the depths of the soul, already of interest to Stein in her early work.