In previous chapters, Edith Stein has been seen as a philosopher of consciousness, reflecting on and analyzing the inner world as well as the outer world of human beings. It has been apparent that she broke out of the limiting confines of Husserlian phenomenology to explore the unlimited horizon of metaphysical inquiry —inquiry which was off-limits for Husserl's "rigorous science." Since Husserl, a number of philosophers of the phenomenological school have not rejected the problematic of God, and questions related to religious experience are engaging many other contemporary philosophers who show definite phenomenological trends.¹