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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... truth the second way. She acknowledged it ''reasonable to receive truths of which I do not see the evidence.''15 As the debate proceeded she advised Manning that it would not do for the church to rest her claim upon the historic but the ...
... Truth among the Artizans of England but the second and third volumes use the shorter and more general Suggestions for Thought to Searchers after Religious Truth. shorter version, which she titled To the Artizans of England,. 14 ...
... truth.''' She then commented, ''When I read that I do not wonder they called Jesus divine.''17 Nightingale's God and Jesus were vitally involved in the world; they cared for it and wept for it, although they did not intervene directly ...
... truth (f101). His confidence in God, freedom from the opinions of others, ''this divine calmness, this union of strength and love'' was the key to Christ's authority. He was above other people because the words he spoke were in ...
... truth in what one hears and reads and sees but looking only to find . . . an argument for one's own view . . . .O how much there is of that now!''25 Or similarly, the sin against the Holy Spirit was alleging the experience of the past ...