Edith Stein: Thoughts on Her Life and Times examines Stein's transition from academic philosopher (an assistant to Edmund Husserl) to mystic and nun. It explores the extraordinary life of Edith Stein, depicting the challenges Stein faced as a Jewish woman in German academia before and during the rise of Nazism and as a Jewish phenomenological philosopher who became a Catholic Carmelite nun. The book explores her journey from atheism, conversion to Catholicism, and death in Auschwitz.