Summary

Symbolically the transition of the name of Edith Stein to Teresa Benedicta de la Cruz indicates a spiritual religious process that the article interprets as a progressive experience for a meeting with Christ. Under the notion of experience as a mode of knowledge, milestones of Edith Stein's spiritual process are collected from his time as a member of the Gotinga circle, until his experience as a Carmelite, announcing his martyrial death. A progression of the experience is described, from the knowledge of another, to the knowledge of God, mediated by the meeting with Christ, which will be sealed in the atoning holocaust, lived as an experience of configuration with him.