By contrast, she explained, "In philosophy I learned to see the structures and objective orders of thinking and of the world, the contradictions of atheism, the senselessness of denying the truth.

"[2] While she was the Director of Studies at Burg Rothenfels am Main from 1975 to 1984, she earned her habilitation from the University of Munich in 1979, submitting a monograph on the theologian Romano Guardini.

[4] She gained considerable popularity at a university struggling with its Communist past by offering courses and lectures on Christian notions of reconciliation and forgiveness.

[5] Since 2011, she has been Director of the European Institute for Philosophy and Religion (EUPHRat) at the Pope Benedict XVI Philosophical-Theological University in Heiligenkreuz, Austria.

She is widely considered to be an expert on Ida Friederike Görres,[7] and is the founder and vice president of the Gertrud von le Fort Society.