Florence Nightingale’s Spiritual Journey: Biblical Annotations, Sermons and Journal Notes: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale, Volume 2Lynn McDonald Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press, 1 jan 2006 - 598 pagina's 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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... Benjamin Jowett (1817-93),20 a priest and Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford University, later Master of Balliol College, to give her communion at home. He did, normally on a Sunday afternoon, and normally with family or friends ...
... Benjamin Jowett to write a theodicy, a justification of the ways of God to humankind. (She liked to use a transliteration of the Greek, theodikè, which combines the words for God and justice and makes the meaning intuitively clear.) Jowett ...
... Benjamin Jowett died she referred to his receiving ''the crown of life.''54 For herself she was more diffident. At a time of serious sickness she described to Jowett her expectation of standing naked before God in judgment, conscious of ...
... Benjamin Jowett and the low church evangelicals Lord Shaftesbury and Sir Harry Verney. It is noteworthy that, while Nightingale is typically identified as a ''broad church'' liberal, some qualification must immediately be made ...