Florence Nightingale’s Spiritual Journey: Biblical Annotations, Sermons and Journal Notes: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale, Volume 2Lynn McDonald Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press, 1 sty 2006 - 598 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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... eternal damnation as unreasonable, the remnant of a punitive age. There could be ''no such thing as eternal consequences for evil to anything poor, weak, ignorant man— we—can do (which would be a vengeance unworthy of . . . a perfect ...
... eternal laws of the world (f103). ''I sometimes think that the death and not the resurrection of Christ is the really strengthening and consoling fact, that human nature could have risen to that does show that it is divine'' (f65) ...
... eternal punishment for unbaptized children. She similarly disapproved of the sacraments being used to open the door to heaven, ''as a segregated pen for the few'' (1:262). What fate might be in store for the imperfect is not entirely ...
... eternal idea—the indestructible thought, which far from being destroyed by destroying the miracles and fables about Christ, is on the contrary established by such destruction.''59 In a letter to her father she objected strongly to the ...
... eternal damnation (above). She was also critical of every other Protestant denomination, though none more so than the Presbyterian: ''Luther88 and Calvin89 seem to me quite as frightful tyrants as the pope and Calvin's religion to have ...