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Cristiana Maria Dobner, philosopher, literary critic, essayist, translator…nun, Discalced Carmelite in the convent of Concenedo di Barzio, a hamlet of 70 souls perched on the mountains of Lecco. From Trieste, raised with the breath of Central European culture, in a wealthy family passionate about literature (the Dobners, “those of the clocks”!), Cristiana Dobner is a combative and wise voice among the women who mark today in the Church. No claim of roles, on the contrary, the exaltation of the differences between male and female are true feminism. Model "her" saints, Teresa of Avila, a disruptive force of faith and courage, in a dull time; the little Teresa of the Child Jesus, who from a cell and a sickbed marked the theology of the modern Church; Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, Edith Stein, patron saint of Europe, cornerstone of an inseparable bond between Christians and Jews: Cristiana knows Hebrew, both ancient and modern, and has followed the footsteps of Cardinal Martini on the roads that lead to Jerusalem, to whose works she dedicates a large part of her studies. Her latest essay is entitled The New Road. Carlo Maria Martini, the Exercises and the Word, Terra Santa editions.