Florence Nightingale’s Spiritual Journey: Biblical Annotations, Sermons and Journal Notes: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale, Volume 2Lynn McDonald Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press, 1 ian. 2006 - 598 pagini 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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... pray for will be described shortly. Nightingale considered political activity as enormously important, a holy calling. She explained this to her friend Benjamin Jowett: ''Someone says that politics are ephemeral, only for the moment ...
... pray that the typhus, caused by the foul drain, should be removed without the drain being removed.'' She acknowledged that this ''must shock all religious people and repel them at once'' (f29). In a paraphrase of the Lord's Prayer ...
... pray. In notes (or excerpts) she defined ''reasonable'' prayer: We may review our faults, begging Him to take from us all vanity, levity, sensuality, and to infuse into us a new mind and character. We may think of any good which we can ...
... 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 even considering progress on a concern that happened on her ...
... pray for her over a specific matter relating to Margaret Verney: ''Last night she asked me to pray for her that she might be guided aright in these difficult circumstances or some words to that effect. And I knew that she meant to pray ...
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