Florence Nightingale’s Spiritual Journey: Biblical Annotations, Sermons and Journal Notes: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale, Volume 2Lynn McDonald Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press, 01/01/2006 - 598 من الصفحات 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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... servant of God, not his enemy; good can come from evil (129). Nightingale expressed this theme of the link between good and evil consistently throughout her writing, insisting on the human capacity to learn from evil. Sin and failing ...
... servants, were often held in Victorian households. In a childhood letter Nightingale reported to her mother on reading prayers to the domestics.25 It seems that household prayers were held in Nightingale's own adult establishment ...
... servant (herself) feminine: ''Nunc dimittis servam tuam, Domine'' [Lord, let thy servant depart in peace].57 Sometimes Nightingale revealed a remarkable sensitivity to gender. After citing an Italian writer on our inability to know as ...
... servant who had tried it seriously! It only makes the state of mind more anxious: ''It is a positive fact that to be thinking too much of God's will prevents one from doing His will.'' A nurse, in particular, must not be ''always ...
... servants,'' and have really no work of our own to do, nothing which we are striving to accomplish on our own account. We have no selfish schemes which circumstances may thwart, we acknowledge no selfish hopes which they may destroy. It ...