Florence Nightingale’s Spiritual Journey: Biblical Annotations, Sermons and Journal Notes: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale, Volume 2Lynn McDonald Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press, 2006 M01 1 - 598 pages 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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... Egypt, are given in European Travels. The electronic text will provide comprehensive material on all the persons in Nightingale's life that could be identified: family, friends, nurses, health and medical experts, officials, political ...
... Egypt, November 1849 to April 1850, was formative in her intellectual development, especially in comparative religion and sociology of knowledge. The trip ended in Alexandria, where she visited, as she had in France and Italy, a Roman ...
... Egypt Nightingale argued a commonality between the ancient Egyptian and the Christian conceptions of the Trinity. This early Egyptian conception, or at least that of educated Egyptians, was of a single God, for whom different names and ...
... Egypt. Union with God was the goal, the selfish vying for a good place in the afterlife despicable. Portrayal of God as judge made for a separation between Jesus and the Father that was not warranted. What a God, ''always weighing and ...
... Egypt, where, one suspects, she acquired some understanding of gnosticism. Her Letters from Egypt show that she got this notion from the ancient, pre-Islamic Egyptian religion: ''What a deep philosophy! What theory of the world has ever ...