Florence Nightingale’s Spiritual Journey: Biblical Annotations, Sermons and Journal Notes: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale, Volume 2Lynn McDonald Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) is widely known as the heroine of the Crimean War and the founder of the modern profession of nursing. She was also a scholar and political activist who wrote and worked assiduously on many reform causes for more than forty years. This series will confirm Nightingale as an important and significant nineteenth-century scholar and illustrate how she integrated her scholarship with political activism. Indispensable to scholars, and accessible and revealing to the general reader, it will show there is much more to know about Florence Nightingale than the “lady with the lamp.” Although a life-long member of the Church of England, Nightingale has been described as both a Unitarian and a significan nineteenth-century mystic. Volume 2 begins with an introduction to the beliefs, influences and practices of this complex person. The second and largest part of this volume consists of Nightingale’s biblical annotations, made at various stages of her life (some dated, some not). The third part of volume 2 contains her journal notes, including her diary for 1877, which is published here for the first time. Much of this material is highly personal, even confessional in nature. Some of it is profoundly moving and will serve to show the complexity and power of Nightingale’s faith. Currently, Volumes 1 to 11 are available in e-book version by subscription or from university and college libraries through the following vendors: Canadian Electronic Library, Ebrary, MyiLibrary, and Netlibrary. |
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... heart is ''not ready,'' it longs to find its home. All ''will'' for me is on the other side from what you think. Conviction alone hangs back. With all its faults ''what a home'' the Catholic Church would be, especially for women, who ...
... heart x x. There are some questions which He will not answer at all. At the last when interrogated by Pilate, He the captive on the point of being led away to death, replies: My kingdom etc. This is the language of authority, more ...
... heart.10 Nightingale considered the usual Christian approach to prayer to be insulting to God: ''Surely it is strange that we should come to God every morning to say to Him that He is so good, so merciful, so compassionate. If a child ...
... heart's desires. Later in life, however, Nightingale came to pray for specifics, indeed a precise £15,000 for Bosnian refugee relief. Much correspondence shows her thanking God for specifics, seeing God at work in various projects and ...
... heart for my Pop.''22 When her godson, Dr Carl Fliedner, failed to get a hospital position for which she wrote letters and tried to garner support, Nightingale trusted that ''God, who does all things right, will open a path for you to ...